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Here comes one of the most vacuous blogs of my career…(incidentally the blog has now been going for 16 months and I write one a week so that’s a lot of blogs to compare it to…) Are you ready for it? Well here goes…I liked the round of applause at the end of the Hepworth performance on Thursday…that’s it…see I told you it was vacuous… I liked it because it was warm and heartfelt…I liked it because it told me that the audience got what the piece was about, that they understood the writing, that they appreciated the performance and that they’d enjoyed the cumulative effects of all of those things combined. I liked it because it was from lots of pairs of hands. It was also enhanced by the acoustics we’d battled to manage vocally in the rehearsals and the performance…I liked it because it was from a mixture of staunch fans and people entirely unfamiliar with our work and I liked it because it was backed up with so many positive words from so many people. I put writing this off a day as I...

Hurray for Jack Iredale...and his review of our Hepworth Performance this week... So as many of you know, we at Yew Tree (excuse the rhyme) were commissioned to do a piece for the new Hepworth art gallery, that big grey building near the church on the water. So we cracked on, and devised some excellent scenes. Rehearsed a few Saturday mornings at Thornes Park and once at The Hepworth, which once you get inside is fantastic. The rooms are just enormous white caverns with windows looking at Wakefield, and filled with nothing, it’s going to be a shame to actually put art in, though the rooms themselves aren’t that… acoustically brilliant. So it got to the night of the performance. We arrived to get in a quick rehearsal or two before the presentations that kicked off the evening started. Now, we were in separate rooms for our little scenes, kind of like we were the pieces of art for the evening. As such, I don’t really know how the audience reacted to the first 3 scenes beyond the occasion...