First Night
Tonight was my first ‘first night’ as a writer sitting in the audience. Usually I’m part of the stage management. That’s the nature of fringe theatre. But as part of a professional production, my role is just ‘the writer’. More time. I’d say ‘more time to relax’ …but that’s stretching it! I needn’t have worried, for in the hands of director Olivia Millar-Ross, and actors Habiba Saleh, Rory Grant, Billy Mack, Dani Heron, Nicola Docherty and Kareem Nasif, the play was always in the safest of hands. The audience laughed and were hushed just where you’d expect them to.
It was a privilege to relax in The Everlasting Arms tonight. I hope you will too in the coming nights.
If you see a guy half-hiding at the back, it’s me. Come over and say “hello” - I’ll be delighted at the distraction!
Dance The Colour Blue runs four more nights: 28th June - 1st July.
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