Write Every Day: Day 20

Check-in post for 20 May. Please say what day you're checking in for, to avoid confusion about timezones, and let me know if I've missed you in a tally.


Tally for the month so far:

Day 20: china_shop, regshoe

Day 19: black_bentley, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, kate, lferion, luzula, phantomtomato, philomytha, regshoe, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, ysilme, zero_pixel_count

( Days 1-18 )

My check-in for day 20: Started redrafting chapter 16, which—touch wood—is going more smoothly now.

Walk with me like lovers do

NTS Kidnapped has the final performances of its tour today, in Brighton (in fact the last one is starting just about now), and I am indulging in being sentimental about it, listening to the songs and thinking about how much I love it.

I've been in a much more 'obsessive fannish love' state of mind about it on and off for the last few weeks than I was before I saw it. I think it's partly that I have bit of a habit of forgetting to have emotions about things in the moment and then picking them back up later (not that I did not have emotions in the actual moment about this; the walk back from the theatre along Princes Street at half-past ten in the evening is a time I won't forget in a hurry), partly that I just didn't want to build up too much anticipation for something that might still have turned out to be a disappointment... and then also that I think part of me couldn't quite believe they were really, actually going there until I saw it happen. I'm still kind of stunned. Anyway, I've been obsessively collecting everything I can find about the play, so have some stuff:

Funniest picture of the sailors (and Alan and Davie). I do love their costumes.

'Cutest picture' is a tough competition, but this one comes close.

Ryan J MacKay and Malcolm Cumming posing with the book and some props in Glasgow; also very cute.

This picture is new today and I cannot stop going 'awww!' at it.

Best description of Alan/Davie from a review: 'the start of something beautiful builds between the ‘invincible’ soldier and sweet little Davie from the Borders.'

Isobel McArthur on a BBC radio podcast talking about the play and the book as part of a discussion also covering the history of tartan and contemporary Highland literature. Everything she says about Kidnapped is just so right, wise and admirable. <3 (I'm not sure whether one can listen or download from outside the UK; if you can't get it to work and would like to listen, message me, I have a copy downloaded).

It's been nominated for some awards! Thoroughly deserved.

I'm so glad this play was made. May it have many more productions in future, and good-bye to this one. Right, I've got a few more songs to go and listen to and remember... :)