Jack Scout arose from four “Dialogues” that the creative team had with the place and people with different knowledges of that place: an “Underworld Dialogue” with National Trust wardens and plant ecologists about the site’s unique flora and fauna; an “Overworld Dialogue” with RSPB educators and ornithologists about the behaviour of indigenous species of birds, butterflies and bats on the heath and migratory birds on the beach; an “Innerworld Dialogue” with children at a nearby school; and a “Waterworld Dialogue with cross-bay guides and fishermen concerning fishing traditions and the Bay’s infamous tides, shipwrecks and drownings. Through these dialogues the creative team used experimental cartography, writing, improvisation and notation, drawing, and photography to register and distil their own experience of the place and to evolve material that was transformed into the final performance.