Reason number one for not posting was Wind in the Willows, performed by the Maskers Theatre Company. It was an outdoor show with a 2 week run, two things I haven’t done before. Held at Mottisfont Abbey, with 2 performance areas (and hence technical kit), a rowing boat, a barge, a pedal powered car, a car which looks like a train and snow, there was lots for crew to do so I ran around doing it for all but 2 nights (more about them in another post) of the run which took it out of me a bit. Why? Because I had to be there by 5.30 so I was heading into work at 7.30/8.00 and getting home at about midnight. I left before some of my housemates got up and got back after they’d all gone to bed most days. Despite all the hard work it was good fun, a good show and I met a bunch of people i’d like to and will work with again. A successful first foray into hampshire theatre.
P.S. One evening the chief weasel came up to me and asked if I worked at IBM because he’d seen this site… I find it really interesting that that keeps happening in different places.
P.P.S ‘Ratty’ was a member of Edinburgh DramSoc some decades ago and knew about and was interested in the Bedlam. 
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