Getting It Together

We're making good progress on the play we're doing for this year's Singapore Youth Festival with the older end of the Drama Club. By getting the students to preview two possible pieces for us earlier in the year, directed by themselves, we've found a way of ensuring their input into the process in a major way. Most of what we put together today (still at the blocking stage) was based on their ideas, and it has a youthful energy as a result. It's good not to be too much of a dictator.

In the meantime I'm attempting to restore some of my lost youth by getting out tonight to one of the concerts being performed as part of the Mosaic Music Festival. I was sorely tempted (what right-thinking person wouldn't have been?) to groove along to the P Funk of George Clinton, but we settled for some moody jazz vocals from Kurt Elling as his concert finishes a lot earlier than that of the funkmeister and I need a good sleep to prepare for tomorrow's rehearsals plus overnight camp. Yes, I'm afraid when youth is lost it's gone big time.

Actually I know next to nothing of Mr Elling's work but if the publicity material is anything to go by he's the real deal