Back in October my brother Jonathan (who, in case you have never encountered me before, was also the producer/one of the directors of our show – WW1 musical Till the Boys Come Home) suggested it should be in 4 parts.‘Are you sure?’ I asked him, ‘Four parts? You will be running the festival at the same time. You do realise how much hard work four parts will be?’
Other people asked him the same question, and they too received the same answer. Yes, he insisted, four parts spread throughout the festival, each in a different location around Sydenham. It would be the most ambitious event ever staged in Sydenham Arts Festival.
It sure was ambitious. Mad, some would call it. Four parts would have to be funded, conceived, researched, written, cast, directed, designed, costumed and not least performed. It was asking a lot of actors, it was asking a lot of backstage crew. It was asking a lot of ourselves.
I have told you in previous blogs about my lengthy research process and my Crazy February writing those four parts so I won’t repeat myself here. This, thankfully, is a post-show blog, so I now know Till the Boys Come Home was a resounding success. We’ve heard the applause at the end of each part, been enveloped in the ecstatic buzz surrounding the show, have read the generous praise lavished on us in the written audience comments. We now know – thank God – it was, as many people have called it, ‘a triumph’. Even in all its four parts.
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