We inhabit places in different ways and different levels of engagement are possible depending upon our access to the landscape. Not just physically but also psychically. Signs lead us to the nearest cafe or ice cream parlour, boat trips guide our gaze as they speed out to sea and along the coast line. We look where we are directed and become lost when the signs disappear. We encounter the banal and have not the will to look the other way. To take the other road out into the hills, to the lead mine or the old abandoned stone dwelling. We are here but we do not see. How might theatre help us to see? There is always the danger that it just becomes another sign, pointing us towards the mundane, the expected. Good theatre needs to send us down the back roads and not just encourage us to be tourists in our own or other peoples' towns.