Profound; challenging but most of all: enjoyable. The three adjectives that encompass my experiences of Words and Music. The work from the start seemed daunting, perhaps impossible, particularly as on the first reading I declared myself to be either mad or just totally naïve. The script seemed to be a mixture of random soliloquies and discordant musical interludes something completely alien to me. However, as time passed, and so with it did my reservations, I found something emotionally, spiritually and mentally profound. With every line Beckett challenges the fundamental ideas of love and friendship, age and vitality, past and present. The discussions soon took the form of research and debate as we struggled to carve out our own interpretation of the script. The vague and indecisive stage directions added to the difficulty. It wasn’t perhaps until the morning of the performance that we were really able to grasp and take hold of every intricate detail. The ideas and interpretations came together to reflect our analysis of Beckett’s masterpiece. However, this may have been in part because we had just one rehearsal to incorporate Music, which we were yet to hear. As could be foreseen this itself led to numerous changes and refinements as the entire script took on an entirely new meaning when the music was played. Nevertheless, it was this challenge and endeavour for perfection that ultimately created our enjoyment. We hopefully managed to create something which would allow people to connect to their emotions and respond to the play in a similar way to how we had done over the past four months. Perhaps we achieved this, perhaps we didn’t? But in the end it didn’t really matter, as the enjoyment gained from our shared experience was all that really mattered.