While you've been fussing with the script, Diar has negotiated with the innkeeper to use the main courtyard as your theater. You can put a platform at one end and benches in front of it. The three sides of the inn's buildings will allow others to watch from the windows. While you won't have a godwalk or elaborate sets, it will still be quite effective.
The innkeeper is a bustling woman two decades your senior. She's happy to host you since this absolutely ensures that the inn will be full to bursting each night you play. Seven days and seven performances is your plan, with one full rehearsal the day before. It's a plan. Given that she's willing to cut a bargain on lodging as well, you may come out of this with a tidy purse. Seven days is long enough for word to spread about the play and people to come into town from the farms to see it, but not too long to exhaust the available audience. Or so you think. You've never actually done this before.
However, the rehearsal goes well. It may be that the journey has done the company good, or maybe the prospect of an enthusiastic and none-too-picky audience lifts everyone's spirits, but everybody is on top form.
It's not until the second act that you hit a small glitch. "We need a guard in this scene," Nichol says. "They've got one line, but we can't cut it. And everybody is either on or they're in a quick change."
You frown. You've got more appreciation for Nichol's job now. In the city there are always plenty of extras.
"What about Kit?" Diar suggests. "She's an actual guard. Surely she can look like one on stage."