Fenella’s away. She arrived and then she went back. A chiropody problem unfortunately. Hopefully she’ll be back next week, so watch this space.

In the meantime, I’m trying to make some time to write. The office has many demands at the moment and I’m not getting creative time. I’m not getting stressed about it yet but something has to give by next week. This, unfortunately, is the world of the under-funded theatre company – keeping way too many balls in the air at any one time and taking on everything that needs doing when you want to just be doing the thing you should be doing. Still, beats working in MacDonalds.

Went to to private showing of ‘England’ by Tim Crouch last night. Clearly going to be a hot ticket for the festival and justifiably. I’m not a critic so I won’t do a quasi review here but I’m very happy to say it is fantastic and go if you can.

Tonight’s the launch of this year’s Creative Lab at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. I helped to select the participants in the round so I’ll definitely be there, and we have a slot to develop and start ‘Only the Men’. The CCA really is in recovery now after the mess last year (went bust!). It’s fantastic to see the building being used and it’s getting busy with some great art. The cafe is a thousand times more accessible than it was before the crisis and everything seems much more comfortable and relaxed. I don’t know how they’re doing with getting people in there to see the work, but hopefully there’ll be more and more getting in there soon. The David Rokeby exhibition should be a cracker. The Creative Lab should be feeding in new work. Most of the artists for this year are local and their work will start appearing at the CCA or other venues in Scotland soon.

Back with news of Fenella soon.

Tim Nunn