Time's marching on. We've got 2 weeks to go. I remember writing 5 weeks to go…

Ok we've just done our first run. Half on Wed night in the chapel and half today in rehearsal room. 2 different results. The first run (totalling 1hour and 35 mins) was, in parts, quite brilliant. Saw scenes I haven't seen before because we're working on different stuff all the time. People have really put in the hours. The Fairy scenes and characters are wonderful to watch already. Felt messy with my scenes but a lot of it stuck. Not really worried about the time because it was a rough block-thru (with some real magic and moments) and we've time and space to get it up to speed.

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Very quickly got used to working back in the chapel. It’s a wonderful place to work. The accoustics are incredible. The atmosphere is alive. And the smell is amazing!! Actually it can be purchased in handy bottles for a very reasonable price at Rosslyn Chapel gift shop… Your living room can also smell like a 5th Century stone chapel!

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More punctuation… But we moved faster and did exercises. Amazing how freeing it is simply moving about on chairs. The story becomes clear and the effort we put into moving feeds the words without us working for it. Lines fall into place better when I don’t overthink them

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Monday morning 9am standing on a grey wet Edinburgh street prepared for the start of it all. Got the bus up last night – late, slept fairly badly – then had to sort my bank account out – whilst I was enjoying Pink Floyd in Hyde Park on sat someone was helping themself to money from my account, but finally made it to Roslin and the rehearsal room.

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Hello. Time’s creeping on apace. This is my last week in London and I’m tidying things up here before I come up to the festival. Like working the Pink Floyd concert in Hyde Park (a bonus of working it is being able to see Pink Floyd AND watch the world cup games.) and finishing off in call centres. How I’ll miss that place…

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Welcome to my blog. The director has asked me to write a record of the process for the website and being a man with plenty to say and many opinions I was happy to oblige. I haven't done this before and don't really know how it's going to work. I guess I'll just write when I have something to say. No promises…

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Start of the blog. Less than 7 weeks to go. We have a play. We have a cast. We have a venue. Which happens to be Rosslyn Chapel, as featured in the recent Da Vinci Code film and the subsequent million TV progs rubbishing/glorifying the myths of the best-selling novel by Dan Brown. We'll see what transpires.
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My first blog for Midsummer Night's Dream. All my writings on the process will appear here, having been asked by the director to write a blog. So here's the first of many…

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