And so the tour has begun...

Hey, my name is Tim and I'm one of the company members who will be blogging throughout the tour! We've all been working really hard for the last few months to get 'Yesterday' ready for performance. It's great to be celebrating ten years of Jasmin's work with some of the highlights of her past work along with some exciting new sections too! The Blog will aim to give a bit of an insight into what we get up to on tour behind the scenes!

The piece premiered in Brighton in September (with some lovely weather) and we have since headed to Bracknell (with a particularly excitable audience), Kendal (with torrential downpour) and Tewkesbury (where the town drunks seemed to drink cough medicine).

As soon as I walked into the theatre in Tewkesbury I was greeted with 'You must be a dancer, you look like one!'. Upon challenging this statement, I was told that had I been a musician, I would have been carrying a guitar and wearing a big wooly hat. Fair enough I thought, but was still unsure as to what the exact qualities were that made me so obviously a dancer? - was I standing particularly straight? Was it my silly trainers? Perhaps it was my graceful manner? (Ha!)

Despite starting slightly late due to the massive technical preparations required by the show (I'll go into that another time!) the show went pretty smoothly with an impromptu post show discussion held afterwards - with thanks to my old college principle (Hello :)

And so the tour has begun, next stop... Birmingham