I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.