The search for a black actor goes on. And the endeavour has now sucked in others:

• I've posted a casting call in a Facebook group that deals in opportunities on stage and screen for people in Edinburgh
• Siobhan chatted up a prospect at Summerhall last Thursday
• I've contacted a rather brilliant lady called Danielle Farrow, a professional with an extensive mailing list in the local area. She has very kindly circulated our request to her contacts
• I responded to various emails from B S Neill with clever and ingenious suggestions about how we might find someone
• I contacted the Edinburgh University Afro-Caribbean Society again who kindly said they'd let us put flyers on their stand at a Cultural Fair in Fresher's Week the weekend just gone
• I created a rudimentary little flyer
• Siobhan very kindly delivered these aforementioned flyers to the aforementioned cultural fair on Saturday
• Siobhan approached another man at the Traverse on Saturday night. (He sweetly said thanks but not - but if you don't ask, you don't get)
• I dredged from my memory a man I thought might suit and got in touch with a mutual friend to see if she thought he'd be interested. Turns out he's not black 
• And then Thom Dibdin to the rescue, thanks to a smart suggestion from BS and Siobhan. And he has very kindly posted this 

Phil maintains that all of this effort would make for a great play script. But I'll try and cast this one first.