and for my next shadow puppet: a barking dog...Well, after a well-earned hol­i­day, the staff of Welling­ton­ista Tow­ers are start­ing to retake their respec­tive blog­ging places around the spa­cious and fresh­ly dec­o­rat­ed open plan office.

First up in our ‘rec­om­mend­ed things to do in the evening now that your days have returned to the dai­ly work­ing grind’ is “Sto­ries Told to Me by Girls” — a new play start­ing down at Bats The­atre tonight (Tue 10 Jan).

Writ­ten by Julie Hill, the play fea­tures Jo Smith (pre­vi­ous­ly of the infa­mous Trou­ble The­atre Com­pa­ny), with music by Peter Daube (Bilge Fes­ti­val), clothes sup­plied by the so-hot-right-now Mis­ery, and a whizzy visu­al back­drop cour­tesy of direc­tor Stephen Bain.

Appar­ent­ly the play “…shines a ginor­mous blow­torch on every­thing you did­n’t realise you did­n’t need to know about the art of female sto­ry­telling”, which, for us, is more than enough rea­son to get along.

Sea­son runs Tues­day 10th — Sat­ur­day 21st Jan­u­ary (with no shows on Sun­day or Mon­day), and starts at 9pm each night. Book at Bats.