Edinblog Official Day 1-3
Added 2023-08-06 18:56:06 +0000 UTCSo, after two preview nights knocking out glitches, getting used to the tech and stage and tinkering with the show, I opened TWIST officially for Opening Night on Friday night.
It may have been the best performance of the show I’ve done so far, which was a very heartening start, though of course last night wasn’t quite as much of a high. I did a solid version of the show, but there were a terrifying number of teens in the front row, which meant that I sort of… slowed the roll of the show quite a bit. Looped back round on bits to make sure they had settled in, and drove punchlines through harder, rather than making the audience do the work by sort of flicking them out ‘carelessly’.
It was a really interesting exercise in making the show work for that audience.
Today’s writers’ meeting and workshop was lots of fun and a lovely way to get my head out of the solipsistic bubble-drama of Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s magnetic self-absorption. Thanks writers!
Now tonight I have the comedy award judges in (or at least reserving a complimentary ticket on this, one of my quietest sales nights), and tomorrow a talent booker for a big TV show, so I’m going to assume that for the next 48 hours I’ll forget what direction I’m meant to be facing on stage, and how jokes work and what words are. But the rest of the week should be good!
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