Today’s lessons.

1.A false moustache is a very bad idea when you’re going down with a cold.

2. When you confiscate people’s scripts and replace them with the tough love of a dress rehearsal they step right up and do wonderful and surprising things. I actually already knew this but had forgotten. 

Tomorrow is a two-show day. We’re opening to an audience of school children  – and not any old school children. These, for whom English is very much a second language, will have done a little preparatory work and studied the trickier parts of the text.

I tell you, carry on like this, we could end up being required reading.