Sometime after midnight you'll almost certainly be treading the shallow water of a story that lacks purpose or direction, begging silently for the "stop" to end your misery. More often than not, no such luck; there's more amusement in letting you hang.

My latest Guardian Online performance diary piece, about And On The Thousandth Night... is up here.

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Meanwhile the lovely Forced Entertainment launched it's very own Notebook here this last week - a scrapbook of photos, video and text fragments from various company members relating to current work, touring shows and creation processes. I'll be pitching in from time to time.