Well, I've done it. I have taken a play to Edinburgh. Not Edinburgh Fringe, but I don't have a spare fifteen billion pounds and 99p so that'll have to do. Been quiet because I was busy fully rehearsing Doctor Coppelius. Turns out the hat and cane needed a lot of extra rehearsing to integrate them into the performance. Thank you so much to those of you who journeyed from other cities to see this. It wasn't something I'd expected of anyone, but it still means a lot to me.

Anyway, a reminder that if you want to see what I've been working on, I have a low-key performance coming up at A Play and a Pasty at Laurels next Thursday (21st November) at 2.00 p.m. This was supposed to be done ages ago as a work in progress but got heavily delayed, so now you have the full version. Tickets here, includes a pasty. (Just the 21st, the other dates are other plays.)

Other than that, I'm being kept busy with a lot of things I'm not in a position to tell you about yet. To borrow a saying from the Empty Shop, it's a bit like a duck. All calm up top and doesn't look there's much movement going on, but a lot of action going on underneath the surface where you can't see it. But if things work out, I think I may have a collaboration which could be exciting for lots of us.

Anyway, couple of things I can announce. The People's theatre is letting me do lighting design for And There Were None in mid-January. Doesn't quite top the novelty of the Gala Theatre in Durham earlier this year, but at least I'll get more than five hours to sort this one out. And before then, I'm doing both sound and lighting at Durham Dramatic Society for a new play written by a new director, Catherine Freedman, a spoof of Agatha Christie where I finally get to do the cheesy harp flashback sound. Come on, which sound designer doesn't want the cheesy harp flashback.

Footnote: Oh, that also means I get a nosey at the minutes of meetings. Ooh, that was good. But I'll resist the temptation to give the blow-by-blow account here. Ask me offline and I'll probably tell you.

And that's it, I think. Probably just bringing this site up to date for the rest of the year. More exciting stuff later, I promise.