Millie Week 6; Mon 8 - Wed 10 Oct 1990

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This is interesting - the first strip you see here on the syndication sheet is not the one that got published - and I've only just noticed. The Mirror changed it to one that had exactly the same script and the same punchline, but took place in a busy street on the way to school. It ends with Richard spouting his Shakespeare to some puzzled passers-by. And it's a definite improvement on the original. I'll scan it and plonk it in this post later.

The character of Miss Twee was partly based on the wonderful Diana Edwardes, the driving force behind the West Kent Youth Theatre, and one of Those People Who Change Your Life For The Better; though Diana was neither twee nor as theatrical as this. I'm not convinced she would have had much time for drama workshops either. Neither did I, I always found them to be a nice way to waste an afternoon but I could never take them seriously. Acting is a mixture of let's pretend, empathy, diction and knowing where you are on a stage in relation to other people. Pretending to be an acorn doesn't come in to it.

Added, Saturday afternoon: Here's that revised Monday strip...