Tues 10th

Met A in a café at 4 to work through the difficult speech in Scene 3. Sound of traffic, media luna, café but still got things done. Her flat is being ripped to pieces, a new water pipe put in, new taps in the kitchen replacing the explosive system she had before which threatened to blow up every time you used hot water.

Had an hour to kill afterwards. Found a TV playing the Champions League. Watched Liverpool crush Real Madrid.

Rehearsed from 7. The man who works in the booth at the garage is a friendly fellow called Antonio. We talked politics, theatre and beaches. He said, with the air of a man who knew about these things, that to rehearse a play in 6 weeks would represent some kind of a Uruguayan record. The rehearsal of 1 with F and A went well. Ana growing in enthusiasm. Rehearsed until 10.30. Improvisation, caricature and theatricality. Got the bus home down 18 de Julio. Took ten minutes, back before 11. Takes a while to get the anticipation of London’s travelling distance out of the system.

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