So, into the theatre yesterday. Move-in went beautifully smoothly - helped by the fact that all the rostra had been delivered to the theatre on Friday. And it was great to see my set taking shape.

JGH has worked magic with the lights. He's apparently still not happy with them but they were looking pretty damn good to me by last night's tech. And Jonathan is clearly a very adept sound guy so weird edits of tracks aside, think that should sound great too.

Half of my cast are sick. Ian maintains it's because he wasn't allowed to open the window at Thursday's rehearsal so the germs flourished and spread. So I read in for both lawyers / doctors last night. Ideal. The peasants are all very sulky about not having enough room in the wings to unobtrusively come on and off stage. Then poor Ronnie stumbled on a rostra in the dark and knackered his ankle so he probably won't be able to walk by tonight. Still, despite all this misfortune, we should have a good show.

And lovely Ron, our servitor who's been looking after Adam House for how many years now, did the tail end of the shift yesterday. He always cheers me up. So thanks Ron.

And the dress tonight...