Velu Lesson

[You are waiting to be introduced to Velu - a cow I'm supposed to be performing with...] ‘Velooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!’ She is not where we left her, tied up on the shady side of the barn. We are running down the knobbly track, away from the barn-about-to-be-a-theatre, away from the tensions, away from the shouting of commands and the gloom of rehearsing-not-getting-any-where… … into the…