Tonight's rehearsal will be - how shall we say? - an exercise in method acting. A couple of the characters spend a great deal of time drinking in the play. Two of the other characters are drinking a great deal more by the time we get to the end of the play.

So tonight, (let them eat cake) they shall be drinking not flimsy limpid water from the various ramshackle containers at their disposal but purely distilled alcohol of the strongest possible variety.

I have a bottle of Glen's finest vodka. I have cans of Tennent's Super that clock in at 9% ABV. And we have a disparate collection of pink wine.

I suspect it will end in carnage. So I do hope it helps their acting.

As I don't suppose it'll do much for their lines.