Chris Corcoran is the new Craig and it’s great to have him back on the Stan roster for the first time since our Morality Shopping escapade on Bromsgrove High Street in 1994. Strange though that with new performers on stage you start to learn fresh details about the show. With Fiona’s arrival in Mainz came my discovery that in the ‘Domestic Scenes 1 & 2‘ one of her characters is married to one of Jake’s characters. And only here in Montpellier, 28 months and 80 or 90 performances into the life of Constance Brown, have I found out who my immediate ‘Domestic Scenes’ neighbours are – to the left Alex’s hoodie and to the right Gerard’s jogger, who I now realise is partnered with Craig/Chris’s bathrobed beauty-treatment character. The show may be very technical in its delivery but, from the performer’s perspective, meaning is rendered in the finest details which subtly shift and allow for varying interpretation. As with The Rice Show and It’s Your Film before it, the show inspires discussion and debate from within as well as without.

A botched reception early in the week (owing to a misunderstanding) did not give us the best start, but since then it’s been a pleasure to get to know some of the staff and audience here at the Domaine d’O. Everyone is very friendly here. There’s also been a great willingness to speak each other’s language, with some brave and perhaps comical results.

With the hard work of the week done, a few of us hung out at la plage at Palavas-des-Flots yesterday, then went straight to the theatre, still salty from the Med. Post-show, local riceworker Nico led us to a recommended restaurant in town – where the true delights of French cuisine; bouillabaise, chèvre, steak tartare, are a welcome change to the snatched kebabs that characterised the early week’s dining.