Highs and Lows

Highs and lows…that’s the festival for you. Like the sun and the rain. Day two started in glorious sunshine. Things got better. The Times critic Debra Craine named us as a critic’s choice for the festival…the venue was awash with appreciative comments from the Zoo crew…we were on an upward curve. Nothing could stop us. Then the rain came. And it bought the dark clouds. Somehow we couldn’t convert the Times recommendation into ticket sales. The get in for the show was squeezed into an impossible 5 minutes. The lighting technician got a cue behind in the show…suddenly darkness appeared during light scenes and then those still moments of subtlety were bathed in light. Two reviewers sat in the front row - bathed in that light - as they scribbled away in front of the cast. Nothing like that to settle your nerves. But the lighting caught up. The cast steadied their nerve and 20 minutes in all was good. They held it to the end to rapturous applause from the smaller than hoped for audience.  Onwards and upwards…up the Royals mile with flyers and fingers crossed for a review that missed the lighting faux-pas. If there’s rain and sun, surely we deserve a few stars.