Award, the big run-in

This time next week we'll be in Brighton with the new shows, we would have done our first day and our moods going into the second batch (we're doing three shows a day) will depend on how the first lot went.

From what I gather, 'The Second' is looking great; the guys are rehearsing it a lot and I'll be joining them tomorrow night. The show with Esther feels a bit stop/start; she's off-book/I'm not far off but enough to keep throwing her, brilliant director/a director who lost track of time and forgot to turn up to the last session, lots of rehearsal time/we get distracted by lots of chatting. We've got this afternoon, tomorrow (Bank Holiday Monday) and then the dress rehearsal (in front of a specially invited audience) on Thursday to get this right.

Sticking to the 'letting people down' thing, I ended up missing a gig with Claudia yesterday afternoon because my lesson ran late and then the traffic gods (notably, the A10) were against me. 

On a different note, started running and Freddie dog LOVES this.

Last night, after a long day of teaching and then the rehearsal cancelled because Esther was knackered, and with Aggie away on her yearly jolly with her mates, I sat watching telly with doggo feeling a little pensive about the next few weeks ahead, whilst naturally working on a sitcom script, when I picked up a 'congratulations' message - turns out I won an award for 'Best Actor' for the film, at an international festival, beating Diane Keaton to the prize. That's perked me up a bit. 


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