Today we reached the end of our London rehearsals, a very intensive period which has worked the cast very hard. There's just one day's rest before the move to Bampton and the whole new experience of work on our open-air stage and with the set - until now, from necessity, the cast has been imagining chairs as walls, screens and garden bowers. It's all on course to be a vintage Bampton show. It's going to be a frantic week nevertheless - including a fair amount of final painting of the set, and still a few props to obtain. It's always an exciting time, and very sociable too - and with such a friendly cast, we will all be enjoying ourselves, something which should come across on stage.