The world changes. And doesn't change. Once there were radios and telephones. Now there are mobile phones and the internet. And the now is already past. And so, we think of the future. We think what stories will be told. We think about what our theatres will look like and feel like and move like. Perhaps there will be more digital theatre and more virtual theatre, but there will always be live theatre and the human to human interaction, because look how long theatre has been around - centuries! - and we are still enamored of the live of liveness, the thrill of contact, the beauty of the human, and the madness of what we know we are possible - we need our theatres to remind us of our madness, our ills, our troubles, our unknown desires and transgressions as much as our joys, ability to be generous and tolerant, and too...too... how we are in concert with nature, and that, although we are humans, we are not the center of the universe, and that market-driven economic structures are not necessarily the ways in which life is defined. So, let's talk about nature and about how wild it is, and how it goes on without us, and how sometimes it doesn't because us humans have been selfish about our needs and our greed and have intervened in ways from which we may never recover. Let us think too that theatre is poor. It's just this bare thing. This naked thing. And it's okay. Cause when all the lights go out, we can still hopefully be with each other, and learn a little bit about our truths and our fears and our doubts. And the stuff we don't want to know about. And how form is form - it suits the stories you wish to tell, and one form is not better than another. There's painting and sculpture and collage and drawing and playing with light and video and other things and neither the materials nor the choice of canvas or no canvas gives something intrinsic worth. A play can be many things. It can be made in many ways. Form and function go together. Remember form and function? And sometimes it's the high-wire act and sometimes it's people in a room. The room is always the theatre and the room is always the world. The future is filled with debt and crisis, as is the now, and yet somehow theatre gets made. And it will be. And it will astonish us and anger us and humble us to ourselves.