Too good and very complicated

You never can pre-cast a show. Everyone assumes it happens, but even if you have people who you think: "They could potentially play that part really well", you end up with someone else either doing it better, appearing to audition when you didn't expect them to or not appearing when you thought they might.
Above all tonight though, the standards were a lot higher than I have seen in a while. One person was plenty good enough to have done four of the parts. Others excelled at the roles you could tell they really wanted, but still put every ounce of themselves into the ones they didn't want as much. The people who didn't get parts can count themselves unlucky. The numbers weren't huge, but the competition was tough for most of the parts.
Which all makes casting quite complex. We have done it all apart from two of the roles in my play. Both of these parts should be cast in the next few days. Depending on auditions to come of course. I hope so anyway. One person has got a role in both.
So it's all off on the mystery tour now. What will the journey through rehearsal-land be like. We will start to find out on Thursday.

Wise words: Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. Another writing genius bites the dust. No Douglas Adams, no Hunter S Thompson and now no Kurt Vonnegut. Fewer wise words.