Hot Napoli: Day 2

Day 2, we began rehearsal, first we did a dry run in a room allocated for us, which was in a huge echoey hall. Then we moved to the space outside, it was 5pm, but it felt like 3pm, technically, the sun set at around 9pm. It was so hot, that I had to wear my shades and cap provided by the festival.

So we got to wait for the sun set, then Suven our lighting designer can plot the lights. Its tough performing outdoors, with the plane.

We had to lower down the volume from 9-11 because there was another performance happening next to our venue.

Then in the middle of the tech rehearsal, suddenly there were fireworks not far from the stage. We had to stop there for a couple of minutes.

We ended rehearsal around 12.45am, all tired. Ended the day with Pizza Marinara, literally Marinara Frutti di Mare, its pizza with dead sea creatures on it that cost me about 10 euros.

There's this restaurant downstairs, we call it Al-Ahmin, its like the coffeeshop in Bukit Timah. A lot of Italians eating and drinking Ferrarele Minarele.

Najib is down with tummy flu, must be the cozzes he's been eating excessively.

The sunset at 9pm and sunrise is at 5am, so there is more sunlight that moonlight here in Naples.

At times, after the rehearsal I got this urge of drinking teh halia, but shops closed really early here, by 6.45pm you can't find any provision store.

The daily breakfast is gettin on me, they serve the same bread, jam and butter on a daily basis.

We will open the show on Friday, and the director of the show is watching the full run tonight. We'll probably rehearse till late again tonight, so we got a whole day off, yahoo, but I am reserving energy, its insane to go out with that heat.

I miss my Bee Strompol...