The end is nigh...

On Thursday, No Sex Please, We're British actually opens.  Its at this point all the hard work is on display for everyone to see, and it's a bit hard to hide behind anything.

As production manager, I've had to do a lot of nitty-gritty stuff, such as buying in milk, sugar, coffee and such for interval.  I am picking up 1,800 biscuits today, for instance!  Even I couldn't get through that many on my own.

But my task pales into oblivion compared to an actor, who needs to front up to every rehearsal, or a backstage person who needs to work their guts out, or indeed the director, who needs to know exactly what's happening with everything.  And spare a thought for our bookings-taker who is going to have the phone line running hot tomorrow: our local paper's entertainment section has a full page photo wrap-around, and nearly a half-page article a few pages in.  This will result in several hundreds of bookings over the next few days.

So, we're all very busy at the moment, and my goodness, is this a recipe for tension!  Hopefully, though, everyone can work together to do their tasks and make it easier for everyone else to do theirs, and we get through it all.  We generally do!