Morning workshop. We had even been warned of potentially hung-over students and most definitely late-comers for the early start. The latter was certainly evident, and I suspect some students didn’t bother to show at all (or perhaps it was because 2 schools had left the festival early or pulled out last minute or something). As a result, I combined my workshop group with Tshego’s as she was based in the room next to mine. Together we had around 20 learners and shared the time alternating exercises. I particularly loved the framework for documentary drama, surfing TV channels and coming across a soapie or a sports show, the news, cooking show, talk show, advertisement etc. So each group was allocated a form to express their ideas, and each had their moment in the spotlight.
Then moving to the theatre, the show before R&J ran very late, and the performers followed it with an unprogrammed Q&A, which made us go on stage almost an hour and a half late. While the Q&A did say useful things about theatre etiquette that probably helped us in having such a respectful and attentive audience, they delayed us immensely and the students were disrupted in their scheduling, as were we. The show went very well, despite all this. I had made mention in all my workshops about the kissing in the production and told the students that if they wanted to find out what happens in the story that I recommended not screaming and hooting and laughing whenever there was a moment of physical intimacy. I’m not sure if this made the difference, but they were markedly more well-behaved in this respect than the Hilton student audience.
After the delays, we had a mad dash to pack up and get back on the road. We left the school at 3pm and arrived at our B&B after 11pm. All very tired. Only a splash of rain on this stretch and mostly we dozed when we could, or tried to.
late night arrival at the guest house
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