Extraordinary responses to Laughing Boy continue post performance by performance. Some of this captured by two kickass posts by George yesterday; Witnessing solidarity: the power of Laughing Boy and Evidencing Difference: beyond Laughing Boy. I’ve seen the play four times now and the moment when this beautifully crafted and devastating photo montage by Matt Powell (with London Transport font) and Holly Khan’s haunting melody is shown, is the stuff of pin drop silence.

The audience and cast share intense horror with respect too often brutally absent.

The juxtaposition of JusticeforLB magic alongside this horror continues. The London South Bank University Annual Lecture was organised to celebrate the play with Rosemary Garland Thompson as an extraordinary guest speaker alongside Peter Cronin, who generated more pin drop moments in a chilling exercise in understatement.

A coach trip organised by the Manchester Met Department of Social Care and Social Work ferried students, self-advocates and staff down to London in a mammoth 10 hour round trip. Feedback included “I had an absolutely brilliant time yesterday, aside from the river of tears that went along.”

Theatre attendees continue to be cheerfully photographed with cast members outside the theatre, while documenting their awe of the play. As Michael Buchanan tweeted;

The play is magnificent – funny, moving & infuriating. If you are in London or Bath, I thoroughly recommend seeing it. As for my fleeting appearance – what an honour. It’s not often you hear a Hebridean accent on a West End stage – well done

My mate Ulla flew over from Finland to see it with me and George. A Danish colleague who randomly sat next to her said (when I ‘properly’ met her at work yesterday), Ulla watched the play with such raw and audible emotions adding further authenticity to the performance. She began sobbing at Alfie Friedman’s opening line and continued between laughter exclamations that reverberated around the tiny space, almost flattening the indefatigable cast.

We fell into the nearest pub after joined by cast members and jabbered till closing time.

‘We need another drink’, Ulla, George and I chorused and moments later were transported to a basement club in Soho with Charlie Ives, Daniel Rainford, Alfie and Rose Quentin, the sweetest enabler. George’s suitcase stashed in a cupboard by the hoover.

People are tweeting their journey to the play, their position in the theatre and more.

I bumped into this bunch in Euston Underground hours after this photo was tweeted. And there, waving in the background is Lloyd Page who also spoke at the London South Bank event. A couple of spare tickets were shared on twitter and Lloyd attended with Steve Hardy (in the blue and green t-shirt).

The daily show rehearsal reports continue though we are on a countdown now with only a week left at Jermyn Street, and four days at the Bath Theatre Royal. [Sob] Apparently the cast, and I suspect theatre staff, are loving the relaxed performances.

Audience participation involved Crunchie the support dog wandering on stage at a matinee performance on Tuesday.

Life. As it should be.