Today was always going to be a struggle in terms of time management. I had the first session of my new project at the Primary School to do, and then the opening of the Beds Drama Festival in which I am involved in all three of the opening night plays. The new project at the School seemed to go very well, although it started with my least favourite thing; a mountain of paperwork, which is never good! The kids are lovely, and despite there being massive differences in backgrounds and languages, I think they will all work fine together. I got home from the School, and got straight into prep for the evenings plays. They all went really well, in fact, If I am being totally honest, they went better than I expected. Rehearsals have been fragmented, and I expected the worse. However, as always they pulled it out of the bag. The adjudication in particular was a good one, and VERY thorough. I think it lasted longer than some of the plays. I had some really encouraging things said about my writing, which was rather lovely, and made me think that it was only about a year ago that I wrote them. To be opening up a Drama festival with them a year later was a really fulfilling experience, and one which I hope to repeat. We now have to wait until Saturday to see if there are any prizes or awards to be had. I feel a touch awkward about cups and awards. Should we really be comparing dramas and actors? After all, they are all trying to achieve so many different things. However, the adjudicators are, by and large, a very positive, very clever set of people, and this year's one is no exception. If we win anything I will of course be in a position to be stating that it is not important, and if we come away empty handed, then I will be saying it wasn't what we wanted anyway! Deep down though, I have to be honest and admit that I would be disappointed to get nothing. I think we worked hard enough to deserve something. I have to perform on Saturday night as well, and the frisson created by competition is different to the usual pre show nerves. I think we will all feel it to an extent, I hope it does not lead to any kind of on-stage meltdown. I think we are in with a good chance to do well. I arrived home at around midnight, with tall the comments buzzing through my head., and had a glass of wine or two to wind down. Probably not a great idea, but it worked, and I think I drifted off at about 2.00.
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