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This morning as if nothing has happened we have gone back to Moby Dick. The reality of the situation is that everything was there and the time seemed to have help to make matters better. What I am trying to say is that having the show matureing like a good wine for some months have helped to became better and more mature.

Why am I saying this? May be because it is not anymore starting from nowhere and going in many directions trying to decide which one is going to be the one we want for us, this time we are going to a place that we want, to a certain place.

And the first day of work has been really good. Rob and Joss are making a very good team and we fell that we are being directed.

We have been doing the second act and trying to make it better and clearer for everybody. It also needs to be more sleak and better arranged with the words.

I fell different now that I am working here. Before everytime I was working in Bilbao I was just doing things to make money and after three weeks of Hienas Rellenas it fells that my place is there.

I do not know.

And here everybody is great and very happy. Toby is worry as usual but he has had a very good summer camping with his family. Stefan has the left overs of a job he did during the summer where he had to dye his hair. Petra is tired because she has been doing gigs in festivals and she just came straight here from one and the rest of the team they fell as if they have been working in Moby Dick the whole summer and they have so everything is just fine.

At the end everything has always an end, and it all depends of where do you look at it from. You could easily said that this is the beginning of something but anything that is the beginning of something always is the end of something else.

So I am in the beginning of the last face of the doing of Moby Dick and for that matter I travelled to Northampton during the day and I am ready to start the whole thing again.

It is not going to be a start is going to be more of carry on with the things that we were doing before and make all of them really good and spunky.

When I set my foot in Northampton there was nothing good about being here at all. It was raining and it was cold. There were many people on the streets that did not look friendly whatsoever. They were all drunk or getting to it and everybody looked really wild at it. Perhaps that is because I’ve just red in a paper that they are completely violent. And of course I could not resist thinking that the next one it was going to be me.

But I made it to the restaurant safely thou it took me many hours to make there, I mean to Northampton. It took me three hours in the bus and one hour in the train and another hour in the tube and another hour and a half in the plane and twenty-five minutes in the car. Because this place were we are here it is not very far away but if fells really far away from everything.

And I have met everybody at the Ask because that is where he or she decided to have dinner finally.

I do have two months to be in this country and it is just a scary thought but pleasant at the same time.

Ah¡¡¡¡ I fell tired but very happy. It is nice and exciting to do all the things in my own house and after lots of days working here what you want is to stop working and to see the final show. Today after a nice, hard, productive, and beautiful meeting the optimism came into the job and everybody left the work with great spirits for the next leg.

We will start the next leg on the 30^th November with Cal coming to stay in Bilbao from the 29^th November. I have to say that after these three weeks I cannot wait to go back and start to give the last touches to “Hienas Rellenas.”

And then out. I had to go out. I had to go and see other people and other friends and other situations and people that I like but mainly my lovely wife, which I had been neglecting in favour of “Hienas Rellenas.”

And what you get when the whole thing is happy and everybody starts to really have fun you tent to drink. I do not seem to remember what is first the alcohol or the fun. The fact of the matter is that we ended up going very late at night and being drunk in the kitchen trying to have something to eat. It did work and it was very good because next day our hung over was less hard in our heads.

I am leaving tomorrow and I can tell you that I am going to miss my lovely wife a lot. No more about the subject.

There were there no more than seven people but for Coloniales y Salazones this is the first run ever. So there is not such a thing as a small amount of audience. We had seven and we lost two very early on because they had other things to do.

It did not really matter so much. We had also ourselves to find out exactly what we were trying to do and we certainly we did. Because I think we have a very good show in our hands. The performers are very funny and Cal has done an amazing job. Yes, he has. He has created with us a really funny and exciting show. And perhaps my biggest regret is that we could not finish it there and then.

I am going to England in two days and that is going to be it for now.

The comments of the members of the audience were very generous ended. They were ready to laugh and we were really nervous and we were not doing the things properly and nice so when the whole thing ended we were a little bit reluctant and scare. Perhaps not too scare because we knew that they have been laughing for a while and thou there was many things to work on we had already done the most difficult part that are to make them laugh.

The place were we have been rehearsing belongs to the people with who I started to do theatre with. After I left they created a School of Theatre and they have been very generous leaving us the space for two weeks without asking for anything in return. This place is called La Escuela de Teatro de Getxo. They are a very generous bunch of people that have been doing theatre for many years.

The funny thing about that place is that where I started to do theatre the first time. Miren was there studying in the high school and I used to go there to visit her. One day a friend asked me if I wanted to join the theatre group that they just have made and that was it. Now that is the only thing I do. I am going to touch wood before anything changes and bring me a very bad luck.

Some years ago I did a show in Bilbao with Paul Hunter. He is my friend and he is an actor. In our times in London drinking in the pubs we always thought that we would do one day a show together. I always liked his spirit and his ideas so I brought him here.

At the opening of that show I invited all my friends perhaps with a false pretext but the fact of the matter is that they came. We had a great time and also a very difficult time.

One of the days we went for dinner with Neil, Toby and Paul Willeman to the same restaurant were we have been having dinner today with Cal. He very generously wanted to take Miren and me out for dinner.

He did not have to do it because he has always been super generous with us while I have been living in his house all these years.

That night almost ten years ago we had a very nice dinner and what we thought it was going to be a long and fruitful relationship just ended up being with Toby, because at that time we did our first show with Spymonkey and Cal.

I remember what we ate because Toby like steak so we ordered stake we paid lots of money. The food was brilliant and I felt that it was never going to end the weekend thou I have to say that once the opening night was done it was easier to entertain my friends without having to provide and make sure that everything was just great.

I do not believe in anything apart from people but it felt having dinner there with Cal and Miren that a circle was getting close. It may be true that reality is a compendium of circles and they close and walk back again and again in life.

It makes me laugh to say this because it sounds like a real corny thing to say perhaps because whenever someone says it sounds really obvious. So there is goes, to make a funny show is a very serious business.

We are in the middle of creating it and you see how the things start to become less funny by the day. It is not that you become less funny or that the material is less funny it is just that you open the can of worms of what it is funny and then to narrow it and to make it work proof you have to work really hard in a very serious way.

So how to explaining without giving anything away? Well, Imagine that you are going to put a bucket of water over someone else’s head. It is pretty straight forward, isn’t it? Well, lets think about it a little bit, first the water over the head would make the person receiving it to get really wet. It is better if that person is not very simpacetyc to the audience.

Another thing is how imaginative the putting the bucket of water over the head should be? Straight lift the bucket and literally put it over the head until the head disappear? Or do we throw the water first and then we put the bucket over his head? Or we simply do not put the bucket over his head? Notice that I have said “his” so I think it should be a man the one that receives the water. It could be a woman but what kind of woman?

You see? Already in a very simple funny situation there are so many conditionings that we are going to kill ourselves in the room that we are working.

To make things more difficult the weather outside is fucking great. The sun in shining and we can see lots of people that is going to the beach with their towels and with their friends.

It is very hard and difficult this business of comedy.