Show report: Night Orchard, night nine

Running time 1 hour 52 minutes, two minutes over the book. House open at 21:00, last tree out at 22:52. Cues 14 and 15 went late by about four seconds each: the mist sat low on the lawn and the operator held for it, which was the right call. Nothing else to report from the desk.

Front of house counted 1,540 through the gate. The queue reached the car park by 20:40, so the gate opened ten minutes early and the route ran slower than planned. We have added a standby on the gate for the remaining nights.

One fox crossed the route at the fifth tree, stood in the light for most of a minute and left. Nobody on headsets called it. We are not adding a cue for the fox. The book goes back in the box at 23:30, and the morning crew starts at nine.