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Edinburgh 2007 - lessons (re)learned
Doing a Fringe show with Two Shades of Blue is a wonderful luxury, in that we can assume as a baseline things which many other companies struggle to get right. We have an experienced and competent production staff who know the Edinburgh ropes; we have a large company to hand out flyers (at which we're far better than the average company); our scripts, though not to everyone's taste, appeal to the majority and are actually funny; the cast can all act; in short, we can take as a given that the show will be better than at least 70% of the stuff out there, and can spend the performance week focusing on getting people to see it. And even there, things are a lot better than with many other companies - something's gone seriously wrong if we're late for a Royal Mile slot. Nonetheless, I've ( (re)learned a few lessons this year )
Any I've missed?
Any I've missed?
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The Matrix: first night
Last night was the first Edinburgh performance of The Matrix: The Pantomime.
We sold out.
(In a good way).
I'm slightly in shock. I've done six Edinburgh shows before, five of them pretty good, and this is the first sold-out performance.
The actual performance was good, though could have been improved in places. My daming was slightly off at the beginning, and there was a confused bit in the middle where Neo and Morpheus managed to interpolate a joke from one scene into an earlier one (but, to their credit, recovered, and didn't repeat any lines - we all noticed, because we're very familiar with the script, but I'm not sure if the audience did). And special notice must go to Keith, playing Cypher, who nailed the part. The audience, however, were absolutely awesome, got all the jokes, had huge enthusiasm, did all the "he's behind you" etc with gusto, and were generally great to perform to.
83 tickets left for tonight. We can do it again. Oh yes.
We sold out.
(In a good way).
I'm slightly in shock. I've done six Edinburgh shows before, five of them pretty good, and this is the first sold-out performance.
The actual performance was good, though could have been improved in places. My daming was slightly off at the beginning, and there was a confused bit in the middle where Neo and Morpheus managed to interpolate a joke from one scene into an earlier one (but, to their credit, recovered, and didn't repeat any lines - we all noticed, because we're very familiar with the script, but I'm not sure if the audience did). And special notice must go to Keith, playing Cypher, who nailed the part. The audience, however, were absolutely awesome, got all the jokes, had huge enthusiasm, did all the "he's behind you" etc with gusto, and were generally great to perform to.
83 tickets left for tonight. We can do it again. Oh yes.