Page 77 of The Silent Appeal

What’s happened?

8:47 a.m. Denise wrote:

She came to rehearsal last night. Stepped into Kevin’s shoes while he was still wearing them.

8:48 a.m. Carol wrote:

I wonder what he thought of that?

8:57 a.m. Denise wrote:

There’s a scene where almost every character is onstage. Even I could see the actors were standing in a line as if they were about to do the cancan. Nicky-Rose stopped everything, rearranged the cast so some were sitting, some standing, some upstage, some down, and POOF! It was like a tableau painted by a grand master.

8:58 a.m. Carol wrote:

Good to hear.

9:02 a.m. Denise wrote:

There were other points she made at the end too. We’re very lucky to have her as assistant director.

9:03 a.m. Carol wrote:

She’s assistant director now?

9:05 a.m. Denise wrote:

How are your rehearsals at Mendhams?

9:08 a.m. Carol wrote:

Well, it’s an old play, translated from French, with a large cast, so just the regular teething problems.

9:09 a.m. Denise wrote:

Like what?

9:11 a.m. Carol wrote:

Like the entire cast and crew rising up against a director hell-bent on turning a classic of nineteenth-century European fiction into a Whitehall farce.

9:13 a.m. Denise wrote:

Best sit it out till they calm down.

9:14 a.m. Carol wrote:

It was me leading the revolt! Some groups have no respect for the integrity of the script.

9:15 a.m. Denise wrote:

If only Nicky-Rose wasn’t our assistant director, she could have saved the day for Mendhams!

To: Kevin MacDonald

From: Isabel Beck

Date: February 11, 2025