It is taking a while but slowly and surely we are making The Cardinals significantly better than it was. There are no massive changes, just tweaks, tightenings and adjustments; moments and glances inserted here and there. Things that were held together with sellotape and hope now screwed down and nailed on. It’s fun to do. Hopefully it will be fun to watch.

Yesterday Graeme Braidwood was in taking some snaps of rehearsals – he is a master of his craft. The one above is one of his (savagely cropped for our site’s cinema-scope format).