Ok so Cait and I had these wonderful plans to perform the whole play in its entirety over the weekend. So we planned some writing sessions which fizzled like salt on a snail down to meeting the morning of the rehearsal, which collapsed in on itself like some horrible pancake made by a 5 yr old down to a 45 minute brain freeze in each others company just before the rehearsal.

Which is hardly enough time to argue with the print works about why it costs $5 to download a document of a USB stick let alone  print it  let alone photocopy it let alone write it, especially that hideous end and middle part which still allude us. So somewhere between Cait taking off her helmet and me looking for a pencil we came up with the ingenious idea of just improvising the whole damn thing. Sure this would be hard as we haven't made up all the characters, but we would be brave and gallant. And sober.

So we got to rehearsal and warmed up and all that business and then broke the news or slash the exciting super plan of improvising the whole play, which in their usual fear/faith the (two are hardly different anyway) they took in their stride. Holy Moly. They are cleverer than I thought. As far as I remember because it feels like a dream, plus it was a few weeks ago Cait impro'd most of the missing parts (some cast members missed out on the joy) and I sort of madly piss farted about with a clip board whispering 'Ok Simon, now after Leeroy and Mamma impro the breakfast scene you are mean old Dr Deffasus - now I know that character didn't exist before but Cait made it up this morning on the bus, and he is talking to his grandson Dr Eff about the little boy who is half fish'.

So we impro'd the play, even the end, which was astounding as my clip board was blank for that part - I wish I could remember what those damn cast toys did but I can't and nobody will tell me. Any how it was 40 scenes of improvised joy including an homage to flash dance by a wolf impersonator played by me which I doubt was a highlight except that it highlighted that i'm unfit and not a dancer.