I'm WELL put out, I have to say. You see, I've been taking a module in Drama, Theatre Skills in the Community, which I initially took to give me the right number of credits and at first I hated it, I really did. All we seemed to be doing was playing theatre games and listening to anecdotes about random community performances. Then a few weeks ago I was shocked to discover I was actually starting to enjoy it! I started to see how the games could be of use in developing acting skills, and the anecdotes and talks from various theatre workers began to make sense in terms of how one might go about putting one's own community performance together. I especially liked hearing from the fabulous and zany Joe Ford, a young practitioner who works with delinquent youths whom he educates and rehabilitates through the medium of drama- awesome stuff.

So, I'd just started to like this module. I'd even decided what I was going to present for my hypothetical event (which we are to be examined on)- I hadn't worked out any of the details, but I had an idea. And what an idea! It would have been wonderful, I'm telling you. Glorious! I would actually have been able to talk about it for the full twenty minutes of my exam. Alas, it was not to be. My plan was to adapt the Malcolm Pryce novel "Aberystwyth, Mon Amour", a crime spoof set in Aberystwyth, and present mini site specific performances. I suppose I was lucky then, that someone has already had this fantastically original idea and that they fell down on the issue of rights, which aren't available because some film comapany has them and is doing nothing with them. Grr. Well, now I know. I can't believe, however, that having never met anyone else who has actually read this book, the matter of rights for it came up in my lecture. Sigh. That'll teach me to do my research. Fortunately I have a back up idea, but it's not as good.

On the topic of Drama, I am loving Doctor Who at the moment (yes, bad link, sorry). Catherine Tate is just brilliant as Donna- proper old-school companion, though I think she needs to start wandering off by herself a bit more. I was also glad to see the Doctor get away from Earth! More episodes like the last please!!