* The seed was planted for the Postbox pieces in December 2007 when Maritea and Hannah met in a studio to discuss the possibilities of working together. The sun was shining
* so they left the studio and went for a long walk in the fields of Devon. A few months later
* as a result of their conversation
* they wrote letters to each other every day for a month in which they were both away. In these letters they shared stories about encounters with strangers
* adventures
* musings about the world
* and gave little tasks to each other. This paper dialogue played with the delay between sending and receiving; thinking and reading. When they returned to Devon
* they sifted through their mass of letters as they waited for the postman one day. They gave him a letter that day
* and decided to met him there every day thereafter. The small parking place infront of the postbox became their 'office' over the next few months. They would sit there come rain or shine and edit the material they'd created in the post. In that time they got to know the postman
* a few locals
* particularly an elderly man across the road
* and passersby. All of these things influenced their performance. They created a delicate
* moving
* fragmented twenty-minutes of stories- autobiographical
* historical
* and fictional. Since the first performance
* they have been commissioned to develop it for You and Your Work 5
* and have taken it to Plymouth's In The Flesh Festival. They hope to take it to new places in the future.
