A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words.

It's all very dramatic you know.

Right off the block, let me say a huge thank you to our ever-lovin' snapper: ladies 'n' gentlemen, Mr Keith Gould! He got some beauties, a few of which are here and some of which are on the King Lear page of the website

www.theinntheatrecompany.co.uk

As if you didn't know! Apologies for any duplications - what do I know?

We have one more rehearsal at the Guildhall, this Friday, 31st, then it's off to the castle to start really getting a feel for the whole. We've had a bit of a larf indoors, but personally? I love being out at the site, it somehow helps the process.

Jazz-hands, dahling, jazz-hands!

We have almost got a complete cast! Whoopee! All we want now are ten or so good people to run around like mad-things being soldiers and servants and...well, madmen. Not a lot to ask, is it. Or is it?
Huge thanks to Simon Fox, who has stepped up and taken on the role of the rather nasty Oswald. And also to  Jason Smith, dragged along...sorry, asked nicely by Gil if he wanted to take part. No accounting, but I'm so glad he agreed. Jason will be playing three parts: 
the King of France, a servant and a Captain of the Guard. He gets to marry Cordelia at the start and, by the finish, gets the commission from Edmund to kill her. Oddly satisfying in some respects...markedly unsettling in others!

Simon Fox (on the left) - already asking where to stand.

Jason Smith (on the left) - needing help to stand

I'm gradually whittling down my list of things-to-do. Actually, it's really a list of things-I've-got-to-get-done-or-nothing-happens-including-the-play! The banners went up this past week; one outside the Tourist Information Centre (tickets now on sale!) and the other on the railings of St Clement's Church, beautifully visible to one and all as they enter the town. Thanks to Ernie for his help in getting that sorted. Sort of. Ask him, he knows all the sordid details! It's been a hard old year for many of the traders in Dartmouth, but I've been out there having a natter, trying to glean advertising from them. You've seen the film, haven't you, where a character says something along the lines of 'You'll get this when you pry it from my cold, dead hands'? 
Bit like that in the shops round Dartmouth at the moment...
Actually, many of the traders and companies are being hugely supportive of this year's production, even the new guys, which is promising. So we keep battling on and eventually  Janie will have enough to go in another lovely programme; she is working on it as I type. Going to look excellent. She's found some great pages that will compliment the overall effect and in particular, Shaunagh's superb painting.

And finally: apologies for the weird layout of the pictures, but blogspot won't let me do anything else...and, to be honest, it's been a long day and I can't bothered to figure it out now. Maybe tomorrow. Or the next day.

So very, very studious.

This is not the one you're looking for...

Is it safe yet?

Points a lot, doesn't he?