Thank you william, I much appreciate your post and your good wishes. Very interesting about the different versions of "hito wo nomu". Your concept of the audience as "friends" is a really good one, and I will try to adopt this attitude. Fortunately, in amateur theatre, which happens to be my bag, much of the audience tends to be relatives or friends or other kinds of well-wishers, and consequently it's always a bit easier for us than for the hard-working pros, whose audience and professional critics are only too ready and willing to cut them down ... as if they could do better, for God's sake!

Actually I don't much care for brandy as such, but I may perhaps be persuaded to have a nip or two of uishge before the event.

Rgds, lusy