St Andrews

Last weekend we were up in Scotland to perform at the Byre in St Andrews. What a beautiful theatre! Following several conference room and an underground club it was lovely to be back in a theatre, especially one as nice as this!
We arrived in St Andrew's after a long train journey and were warmly welcomed by everyone we came into contact with!
On Friday we started the day with a meeting with Susan Sellers then had a shoot with the Times for an article (which sadly wasn't used due to all the happenings in Egypt) then began getting ready for our first show. It felt quite a long time since we had performed but I felt really excited to do the show again. What was particularly interesting was the post show Q&A sessions we had. It was very productive to have some audience feedback, especially as so much of it was positive. I also gained a whole new load of information from Susan and Beth's talks- it seems I will never have learnt all I would like to about Virginia!
On the Saturday Kitty and I began by leading a workshop focussed around the Moving Stories method. We included lots of play and then gradually wokred in elements of the show and specifics around Vanessa and Virginia. Sadly we only had two participants, but they were wonderfully enthusiastic and really threw themselves into the work.
After lunch we spoke at an academic symposium alongside Susan and Beth about the process of putting Vanessa and Virginia on the stage. Beth had created a wonderful slide show to go with her talk and it was quite bizarre seeing pictures from so many months ago (such as ones of Emma and I freezing during a green screen recorded read through!) and made me realsie again just how special the developmental journey has been for this show, and how lucky I am to be a part of it!