Last week in Edinburgh

There's so much to write about and so little time to do it...yesterday we were invited to perform The Fragility of X at the META Theatre Festival in Delhi - we're all very excited by the offer and very happy to have been invited by the festival's creative director Ravi Dubey who came to see the show at the Underbelly this week. INDIA, none of us have visited India before so it's all very exciting indeed. Lots more to write but no time now...

Walking around Edinburgh in the rain handing out flyers....walking around Edinburgh in the sunshine handing out flyers....walking around Edinburgh in the rain handing out flyers....we are beginning to get the hang of this flyering business - sort of. It's really important to have a plan to get bums on seats in the first 5 to 7 days (we didn't). On our 2rd show we got ten comps at the last minute and went out onto the streets of Edinburgh to give away tickets to our show - the theory is, get people in to start with, any way you can and let word of mouth build up - but we couldn't get any takers!! Horrendous....we tried it again 2 days later when we had press in and this time it was more successful...now our first review is out and it's really good, four stars in the Scotsman, so hopefully it will pick up from there...however there has been a really good walk up audience everyday at the Underbelly so we've been consistantly about half full every day and getting a terrific response from audience members. Aside from performing the show and promoting it to audiences, we have another big job on our hands, The Fragility of X needs lots of technical care and we are sharing it between us, dragging a suitcase of soaking wet costumes and unravelled jumpers back to our flat for washing, drying and knitting back every night! To find out why, come and see the show ha ha!

Last week was a brilliant week re-rehearsing with our wonderful director John Wright, making The Fragility of X really alive again. It was so so busy though, rehearsing and finishing off all the preparations for our first Edinburgh festival trip and working out how to tech a really quite technical show in a new space in 4 hours....:-)
We arrived in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening (I think! it's hard to keep track of the days here) and on wednesday we had our tech at the Underbelly from 11pm - 3 am. The technicians had been working since 7am that morning, so under the circumstances, they were brilliant. Our first show was at 4.10pm on Thursday 5th August, and went surprisingly well, we were half full and very happy with the response. Afterwards we were invited to the List party though we had to leave in time to get back to the Underbelly for me to appear as the special guest in the Maydays impro show "Guest Who?" which was great fun. We are really enjoying being in Edinburgh so far but just beginning to realize that it really is going to be quite a lot of hard work to make the most of it, (as well as a lot of fun).