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.