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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...

On Wednesday I went to the writers forum – a sort of holiday special edition of the writers forum - and had a ball…it was so lovely to be a participant in something…as you can imagine, my job means that I am pretty much most of the time out at the front, or in the centre, either way I’m leading…sometimes on my own and sometimes with the brilliant people I have working with me but regardless it’s all a bit of a responsibility. A responsibility I enjoy but all the same… I digress…so I got to the session…I didn’t have to prepare anything, I didn’t have to be there early…I didn’t have to be there at all…I had chosen to be…all of these little things were refreshingly liberating in themselves but then I was treated to 90 minutes of writing for pleasure…what a brilliant way to spend an evening… I think apart from all the things that I’ve already mentioned the most outstanding bonus of the session was being able to respond to someone else’s ideas…and not having to worry if they were happy wit...