As we decended on Bridgend again, the sun was shining and we all boarded the open top bus ready for our guided tour of Bridgend courtesy of our lovely tour guides Katie and Mark. It was fab to actually build up a physical picture of the town.

We toured around the various sites mentioned in the play - visited many drinking establishments - had a sneaky peak in The Roof and familiarised ourselved with the 'pub crawl'. I had an education into the 'shots' culture...I felt very old!

In an attempt to prove my youth and vitality I jumped on the zip wire down by the Rec and narrowly escaped losing all the skin off my bum...Matt was not quite so lucky and I think he'll be sore for weeks - but I am sure he'll be walking again in time for press night!

The actors had hit the streets again on another mission and had to report back with their findings. We had material presented to us as part of the character development. My personal favourite was presented by Matt introduced as 'I wish this is what I looked like' in walked a rather strapping, rather lovely rugby player.....I can feel myself coming over all hot just thinking about it....

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Well, it was all downhill for me from then onwards - I was obviously so flustered by such a visitaion that in the rather complicated exercise that followed, I completely lost the ability to count, messed up, got sacked and will never be able to hold my head high in Hobo's again...........

I am hoping that tomorrow I'll be able to redeam myself and be reinstated and - in the absence of any distractions of the rugby playing sort - will be able to keep my concentration!

Elise