The tech last night. It was very exciting.

We got there early and were allowed to potter around as some compensation for not being allowed to go down and visit on Easter Sunday.

The stage is HUGE. Slightly raked. Steps down to the auditorium on each side of the stage. Plenty space for the actors to stand on the floor alongside the audience and deliver their lines. It's a cracking little theatre.

A couple of the girls wandered out to get chips and then suddenly, there were the technical men saying we were positioning lights, could we / should we not start the tech..? Oh. With a quarter of my actors at the chip shop? Ok.

So we started. Actors shambled around the stage marvelling at how much further they had to walk. Everyone spent at least 10 minutes discussing the relative merits of having the rostra a further inch upstage or downstage. Everyone got very agitated about the new space available to them. (I love the inflexibility of actors in this situation. But easy for me to say as new stages at the last minute has never really bothered me but of course it changes timings and so forth. I'm obviously too much of an adrenalin junkie.)

And then we rattled through a functional run through. Without music as somehow their CD player didn't work. Good. Thank goodness for the tech. And do you know, it looks as lovely as I hoped it would on a bigger stage. All elegant and spacious and neatly choreographed. Thanks, bless them all, to the quick adaptation of my cast to the new space.

So I'm quite excited about Friday now. We shall do ourselves justice at the very least.