The idea of Ganesh transplanted to Nazi Germany to reclaim the swastika as a traditional Hindu symbol is a fairly unusual premise for a play. How did the central idea come about?

Back to Back Theatre is made up of actors who are all perceived to have intellectual disabilities. They all, therefore, have a pretty idiosyncratic view of the world. The idea of Ganesh in the play came about initially from one of our actors who was obsessed with Ganesh; she drew Ganesh daily. We began one creative development with her explaining to a group of our actors and collaborators who Ganesh was, and just talking about her drawings.

Around the same time we were experimenting with re-pitching our actors’ voices up and down. One actress came in and she had her hair worn very tightly and was wearing a bomber jacket. She pitched her voice down really low and she suddenly became this terrifying neo-Nazi character. So we put the two together – Ganesh and Nazis. We did a quite embarrassing thing and googled ‘Ganesh and Nazism’ and realised there were like 10 million google hits on that, and from that we came up with this epic narrative of Ganesh...