The news page has been fairly quiet lately because I don't have much to announce just yet. I've got a couple of bits of news coming up: one is quite exciting, the other one ... well, you might want to get your michael_jackson_popcorn.gif ready for that one. Not my doing.

However, I've got one small but exciting thing I can announce now. Quite by accident, and with quite short notice, I've ended up teching at the Gala Theatre this Friday and Saturday. Long story that goes back to the the recording of my Reiver play, but Durham University Ballet Company has kindly offered to be a first test audience for my upcoming Doctor Coppelius. They also asked me if I knew anyone who could tech their end-of-year ballet show as they were struggling to find somebody. Well, the only techie I know off-hand is me, but I've always wanted to get my hands on the Gala's tech. Having narrowly missed out on teching the Gala at least twice before, I wasn't going to pass it up this time.

I've never teched any lighting more complicated that eight lights plus a colour wash before, so I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do here. I've got about ten hours to learn how to do this. If you want to see how I do, it's at the Gala Theatre this Friday and Saturday (14th and 15th June) at 7.00 p.m.