Taxi: Jocelyn and Joe, No Shame Theatre, Arts Center, Carrboro, 30 May 2015

The format (a taxi) is a standard acting exercise, where a series of people get into a taxi, being completely different characters. I'm always stumped for characters to be when I'm in the taxi, so I've put a bit of time into thinking who I should be next time I do it. Last time I was Little Red Riding Hood and Allison was the driver, with Georgina and Fred as the other passengers. I wanted to do something similar here.

Initially when I started to write this, I was Goldilocks going to The Three Bears house, then I became the Wolf. I've had parts of this rattling around in my head for ages but I couldn't get it to gel. It was only today on a walk that, unbidden, it all fell into place.

The inspiration came from a Sesame St I saw with my son about 15yrs ago where Katie Couric is interviewing the Big Bad Wolf. The Big Bad Wolf is a cheery friendly fellow, who turns out to be on good terms with everyone in fairystoryland. I don't remember the details, except at the end, the Big Bad Wolf gets a call (landline, Katie picks it up and says to the wolf in puzzlement "it's for you") from Red and arranges to have ("do") lunch with her.

In another Sesame St, Baby Bear plays the piano and sings the blues about how everything in his life is so bad (his porridge is eaten, his chair is broken). It's one of my favourite Sesame St pieces.

So OK some of this stuff isn't mine. Yes I stole some of it.