Entry for 19th May, 2008

The show is fully cast!
I finished my whirlwind tour of Scotland today, by auditioning a guy who lives not in Edinburgh, not in Helensburgh, not in Fife. In fact, he comes from just up the road from me. So things have come nicely full circle.
Sixteen actors in place. Rehearsals starting on Wednesday. It is all very exciting. Ok. It is not like being Ryan Giggs and jogging out onto the pitch to play for the European Cup, but it is at least a bit like being the captain of a non-league club, stepping out for a pre-season friendly against the local costermongers' eleven.
We can't all be Ryan Giggs. But sometimes we get to pretend we are; as our studs crunch on the gravel at the local council pitches, and the ref looks at his watch, pauses for just an instant...
Then blows his whistle.