Hello there! I’m Kate and this is the beginning of my first full week as Paines Plough’s new administrative intern. Luckily, the lovely previous intern Sean Linnen was here last week to ease me in and make sure I didn’t book 200 quid’s worth of train journeys on the wrong day or something. We had a nice send off for Sean who we know is going on to bigger and better things.

I’m (hopefully) starting to get to grips with how things work here. As you may or may not know, the office is stuffed to the gills with cake and other sugary edibles. Today it was doughnuts – it never ceases. There’s a white chocolate cake hidden in a drawer.

So far I’ve been answering a helluva lot of phone calls. I was very excited to see my biography go up on the website which made me feel proper welcome (as well as delighting the folks!) Everyone currently in the office: Claire, Tara, James and Bernd have so far been only lovely. I look forward to meeting Hanna and George in the near future.

Right, so, what’s on the horizon theatre-wise?

Well, I’m off to see Haunted Child by Joe Penhall at the Royal Court tonight along with some other members of the team. Looks suitably spooky.

Also, am rather delighted to be getting the opportunity to see Matt Hartley’s Sixty-Five Miles up in Hull when it opens on the 1st February. As an Irish lass only recently moved to London I am extremely glad to have the opportunity to sample some theatre outside of the capital.

Hope you all had a good new year and watch out for Programme 2012 coming soon.