Forgotten Scenes

It always happens on the nights leading up to the opening of a new show. A dream. I'm playing one of the scenes, but can't remember half the lines. The scene fades in and out of my grasp and I struggle to wake myself up, to find the safety of the script.

But when I do, the scene isn't there either. It never was. I'd made it up.

Long ago, on a French exchange, I had a similar experience. I was dreaming in French, chatting to my exchange's father, whilst we rowed in the middle of a gigantic lake. I understood everything he said, but one word. So, on waking, I looked up the word in a huge French dictionary.

I am the inventor of brand new French words - if I only I knew what they meant.