schereek 7 February 2009
What a day! I was in from 9am, not 10 as I had posted – lying to you all is becoming second nature to me now (witness the DEMONS debacle last week – incidentally ‘my’ episode is tomorrow…if you can believe a word I say anymore) and then it was helter skelter through the rest of the technicals and headlong into a TERRIBLE dress rehearsal. Happily, that served as an excellent warmer-upper for tonight’s first preview, which went very well. By then also my itchy eye, which I had foolishly rubbed while abed last night and which presented itself as a GOLFBALL of allergy-related swelling and awfulness this morning, had gone down leaving only a notion of intense tiredness in its wake. Lovely (SO not). I’ll tell you what moves me though and what is a great spur to ‘gathering’, as Kate Winslet might have it, is the fact that over a thousand people chose their Friday night out to be our show tonight – that’s awesome and really concentrates the mind. Thank you to all who attended and told us, by your reactions, more about the play in two hours than any other method of communication (and all of it useful and good). I am more tired now than a very very VERY tired person so much go take off all the slap I have on my face still and will now bid yiz good night. Tomorrow? = more of the same. Ah, showbiz…it’s feckin relentless…And, yes, we will keep doing it till we get it right, and beyond!
