Picnic In The Woods

Tonight was the last night of the Dunblane Centre's production of Sondheim's Into The Woods, which was presented outdoors in the grounds of the Hilton Doubletree Dunblane Hydro Hotel, and to celebrate it we had a picnic before the show.

The Hotel itself is the magnificent building at the top of the hill in this photograph. Built in 1878, to allow customers to "take the waters", it has proven a popular place for business and leisure travel alike in the years since. The superb sloping lawns lead down to the B8033 Perth Road, andsomewhere near the bottom of that slope is where we performed the show. The black tent you can see is the technical tent, and the space where the cast are lying was where the audience would later sit.

And so, that's the show over! I had some difficulty getting "into" the show at first, but something really clicked in the last few rehearsals and I really started to enjoy it. Thank you to everyone in theshow - especially Pamela - for making it such a fun time - and a wonderful experience to do a show outdoors!