Bentwater Roads: Carry On Camping

And I'm very excited at the thought Trina is getting ready to jump on a train and come see the show.

Ivan is sitting in the kitchen when I wake up and he wisely says it's too hot for a jog today. I naively go ahead and run twice around the park, almost loosing my entire body weight in sweat. A quick tidy of the bedroom where I'm staying and packing my ruck sack for an over night stay on location - I head into town and buy some rations for later on and get out some money just in case of an emergency.

Fast and Furious, one on one, two on one or two on two basketball has somehow become the king of warm up games. Though for this one show I found myself on the phone until the half (Silki telling us we have 30 minutes til beginners and will we put on our costumes, please).

Trina's train had run ridiculously late and stranded her in Ipswich til the evening performance so I went and bought an evening ticket for her from Jon at the makeshift box office.

I felt a little nervous again for the first time in a while but the show went really well. Ivan Cutting (the Director) was in the audience and he said that he had only planned to watch the first half but had been enjoying it so much he stayed for the whole show, ultimate praise from the man who has seen it more than anyone else.

Between shows there was a lot of sweatiness and warming up on the basketball courts. As well as a quickly gobbled down ready meal from Tesco.

Time for the evening performance and I was really excited, I love performing when there is someone I know in the audience, it gives you that extra drive and confidence. I felt like I had hit a home run for every scene and the whole play seemed to be doing even better than the great afternoon run we had just had which Mark Knightly had joked ‘it's good to get a warm up run in the afternoon before the real thing'.

Trina was full of praise and really enjoyed the show. Dee Evans from the Mercury Colchester was in as well and Dan talked to her for a while and she was full of praise for the show as well. We are the must see event of 2010 according to the East Anglian Daily Times and we are in the top 5 must see shows in the country according to The Independent. All this high praise is wonderful.

A lot of us were staying behind to camp and we pulled the picnic tables together making one long table to huddle round. Beer, Cider and Wine were poured and much laughter had under the amazing night sky at Bentwaters. We had a little music and dancing. And my stomach rumbled so I grilled a few lamb chops, chipolatas and pieces of sweet corn. Finally at about one in the morning, Trina and I retired to our little one man tent that she had brought all the way from London - it was a squeeze to both fit in there but a nice one.