Spare a shekel for an ex-demon?

This weekend I have been mostly making flags.

To the extent that I went to bed last night still thinking about them as I hadn't finished (I made a boo boo and had to redo a whole section which probably cost me two hours or so). Besides from the muck up I made, I am extremely proud of the one and a bit that I have done. My living room is covered with bits of thread and I keep forgetting to pick up the pins from the kitchen (I'm surprised Director Guillotine hasn't moaned about it - actually he's been very understanding and I left the house in quite a pickle!!!).

Last week ended with the first blocking session of the show, Carton cried off the rehearsal using some flimsy excuse of 120 mile round trip for one line, whilst Darnay came for his one line's worth of blocking... The scenes were set to music (all v.dramatic) and everyone had to learn to count to 10 (easier for some) although Director Guillotine thought that 60 divided by 6 was 12 (!). The peasants were outstanding and got a special mention in Director Guillotine's lovely email sent out on Friday to the cast. He was also chuffed to bits with Darnay's father and Evremonde in their rather difficult scene and was completely luvvied out with how great we all were.

Miss Pross took on the usual seamstress role (and I don't mean Seamstress, as that's someone else completely) and unpicked elastic from fitted sheets (for the flags) which was a great help and saved me loads of time at the weekend, so thank you very much MP.

The last scene that was blocked involved Lucie, Defarge, Mr Lorry, Dr Manette and myself and it was quite amusing to note that all of us had been Demons in the summer when Director Guillotine was Director Demon (we all love him see?)!

Blocking for scenes 6-10 tonight, a big court scene and some more set to music and Wardrobe Mistress will be setting up shop at the back to try some things on the cast for size, pheasant costumes if Carton and Darnay had anything to do with it...