Day 10 - Visitors

Today I spent the day with Nanna and Great-Nanna and also spent some time with [great-]Uncle John and [great-]Aunty Val who had come over for a couple of days stay as they have a camper van and so booked a plot in the field next to the cottage. (Though they actually stayed in the cottage in the end I think!) We had loads of fun going out and looking round diffent places and playing with my Mega Blocks in the cottage, and I also entertained them by using the fireplace as a stage and singing and dancing. :)

Tonight's show was Iolanthe by Trent Opera. Mummy and Daddy said it was very good, although there were a few minor slip ups, but nothing that was really noticable. They recognised the set as it was the same set that they used when they did Iolanthe with Savoynet, although that was where the simularities ended! They missed seeing the Peers robes in heir entrance, although did not feel that this was really a problem as what they did worked really well in the context of the show, but just didn't make quite the same impact. Mummy said that, if she had been a performer in that production, she would also haave missed the fairies' wings as she would not of felt a 'real fairy' without them, though as an audience member she did not really miss them at all and thought that the fairies' 'autumnal' costumes were really beautiful and the fairies themselves, to use one of the adjudicator's comments, were really 'fun'. Mummy's friend Jess was Iolanthe and Mummy said she did really well and also that it was great tosee an iolanthe who was actually near the stated age of 17.

After the show Mummy and Daddy went to the festival club to meet up with Nanna, Great-Nanna, Uncle John and Aunty Val, who had not been to the show to see the cabaret. They all enjoyed the 'community singing' of Iolanthe choruses, though as non-singers John and Val were a little bemused by proceedings. I am proud to say that Mummy and her friends Meriel and Gennie went up to join the men on the stage for the Peers' chorus as is tradition! :) Everyone also enjoyed the main bit of the cabaret which was various solos and Duets from the Trent Opera cast. They thought it was of a very high standard and John and Val, who have never been to the festival before thought that many of the numbers were of a standard not out of place on the professional stage.