Well I've started.

Things began rather badly with one of my actors not turning up. And then proving to be uncontactable. And all the while I knew that I had his home phone number stored away in a little book at home but nowhere near our rehearsal rooms so that was fairly frustrating. And he's a dear conscientious boy so it seemed that if he wasn't there, there was probably a good reason so it was also slightly a little concerning.

Anyway, as it turns out, he had only half a good reason. He had forgotten. (Worst reason.) But he was riddled with flu and had been for days so that softened the worst reason a little.

DG was very kind and said he thought that actually it was for the best that flu boy had not been there as we were able to make sophisticated character developments that would then confuse, befuddle and confound the missing actor which is exactly the effect that the action is intended to have. We shall see if this pays dividends on Thursday.

In the meantime, thank you, DG, for your kindness.