Focus!

I learned something about concentration this week.

I think I've pretty much absorbed my script for the Burning Out performances now. If I don't remember a bit, I tend to know where I'm going so I can usually ad-lib (she says, compulsively touching wood).

However, reciting something by heart with so much at stake has made me realise how slippery my concentration has become. Rehearsing, I will lose my place, and suddenly discover that I am thinking of something else entirely. Today, while I was...