one step at a time like this is a group of artists based in Melbourne, Australia.

Works are generated from a collaborative investigation and shaped by the primary creator of the given work. Our earliest works (as bettybooke) were theatre works. These included original works as well as radical re-workings of classical texts, incorporating elements of contemporary popular culture.

Our interest in the audience and their part in creating the meaning of the work, has led us progressively further away from representation and toward site-responsive works which engage the activity of the participant in the realisation and comprehension of the work. These audience works have a pre-occupation with the place and role of the audience.

Our work is informed, above all, by an emphasis on relationships - between people, and qualities of space and time. The connective and often intimate nature of the work reflects the company's interest in engaging audience members in the activity, and by extension the creation, of a work of meaning. The hope is to create invitations, resonances and pathways toward a more engaged and particularized experience of live theatre and lived relations.

The company has worked together since 2001.