Bentwater Roads: Birthday Boy

We have now rehearsed for two weeks and today we will be running the final quarter of the play. And today just happens to be the 30th year I've been on the planet. My girlfriend Trina had travelled up the night before to surprise me. I'd rented a hire car and we headed off at 3.30am to catch the sunrise at Aldebrugh, have a picnic breakfast on the beach and send wishes out into the ocean on paper boats.

Trina had organised an obstacle course around my room with strange fruits to devour in set amounts of time and aptly aged tasks such as filling out a crossword puzzle and donning a moustache, glasses, formal tie and talc powered grey hair before arriving at my presents. Yes, we're both still very childish and enjoy silly games as much as we did when we were 5. "Who wants to grow up?"

First thing in the morning we went over the last few scenes of the play then, you guessed it, we worked on the transitions for the last quarter before in the afternoon hitting the end of the show running.It was really touching to watch the outcome of Charlie's story (no,I'm not going to let you know what that is - you'll have to come to Bentwaters and see for yourself ) and I think Nadia Morgan is doing an amazing job of what is a Mt Everest of an emotional and psychological journey.

That evening - we watched the football (least said the better) then headed to Silki's (Stage Manager) 30th birthday party in Woodbridge where we partied hard around a bonfire and inflatable festival tent as we sent Chinese sky lanterns up into the hemisphere, magical.