Earlier today, clearing the office, filing and other such mundane things, I came across my folder for Lunch In Venice and realised I haven’t posted anything about the play for ages, and now of course, sadly, it’s over.

But I’m not going to let it go without saying a few well deserved thank yous.

It was great. Truly brilliant. In fact it was the best show I have ever directed. Such a pleasure. And that for me, is purely down to my enthusiastic and brilliant cast. Sunday afternoons have been so much fun!

Mark, Pete, Rianna, Tom, Chloe and Claire all took to their parts very well and got everything they could out of the characters and the script, and it showed too. Fantastic job!

It is a very well written and clever play and these guys jumped at the challenge of getting that across to the audience. It was a real pleasure to watch every night. Thanks guys and well done!

In addition I used five other RYT actors from the other two plays in ‘Triptych’ to play my ‘Troupe of Acrobats’.

Adam, Fleur, Luke, Daniel and Mike did a great job and even though they were only on stage for 90 seconds, they really put their all into it and enhanced the whole production. Thanks guys!

I also need to thank Carole, Alan, Sue, Clare, Kevin, Ian, Chris, Viv, Janette, Ellie and indeed the Tech Team (Zandr, Beth, Charlotte, Richard, Stephen, David and Sherise) for their work behind the scenes for great costumes, set, props, lighting, sound and stage management. Couldn’t have done it without them!

Oh and Rob too for recording the ‘Carnival of Venice’ on his accordian for us. Thanks!

And finally, a big thank you to Ian, Hels, Jon, Tommi, Frank, Mark, Ciara & Ciara’s friend for coming along and watching. It was great to see you and thanks for your support.

So onwards and upwards (though I’ll be hard pushed to top this one!), plenty more in the pipeline…