The Mayfair Academy, Bethnal Green

The disappointed sigh which greeted "Let's not do English Punctuation just yet" was a hint. These young ladies of the Mayfair Academy included a number of men - and no-one, whatever their gender, of school age.

Matthew Bailey was rehearsing our terrific team of workshop actors: Sam Adams, Saikat Ahamed, Willie Elliott, Julie Hewlett, Michael George Moore, Natalie Moss, Lucy Rivers and Richard Sumitro, in what turned into quite an opening number by the end of the day, thanks to Matthew's music, choreography from Jeanefer Jean-Charles, long whirling skirts by designer Nettie Scriven and Ros's orchestration of the group's collective response to the beginning of the story.

Not too much blog from me - I need to sketch out a scene or two involving Finn before we start tomorrow.