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Edinblog: Day 1
🕑 Added 2019-07-31 23:59:55 +0000 UTCToday! Day one. Or pre-day one. Two days pre-day one!
Technically the fringe sort of hasn’t started yet but it totally has, with everyone doing tech runs and previews.
The streets are only starting to get rammed full of people, though, so it’s still possible to walk around at a human pace without having to leap over student theatre troupes. They often do a thing where they lie on the ground and offer you fliers, which is an admirable efficiency in energy usage and a bastard to navigate.
I spent the day working on a cool projection that I’m thinking of running behind my show with the Greek myths that I don’t explicitly mention but which inform some of the stories in the show. The idea (which woke me up at 3am this morning) is that some people will be disappointed that I’m not talking enough about Greek mythology and instead am talking about stories and lies in a sneaky expansion of the definition of Mythos away from its most common usage.
Then ten minutes before the show I decided it would be too complicated to figure out the cues while dusting the dust off the show and learning the space of the room.
I did my first preview show to a lovely audience. Maybe tomorrow I will do the fancy projection. Maybe I’ll find out it doesn’t work because it draws focus away from me and onto the screen. This is what previews are for. Figuring this stuff out.
I am very tired. I can’t wait for the fringe to start.
Xx
Comments
I saw it on Thursday with the slides and I thought they were great! The Elon Musk/Icarus gag alone was worth the price of admission :D
Thanks James!
Good luck . You will be great
Thankyou so much for being so kind, brave Steve! I’m glad you liked the show, and thanks for getting on board this Patreon train. (Or is that offensive?)
Steve Clapton
Just got back from tonight's (1st August) preview show and really glad I did, thank you very much and hope you have a great run for the rest of the show. Also I do hope Australia exists or my parents have been lying to me about where they moved to when I was 17, although Toowoomba does sound like a made up place now I think about it. Steve - the guy with the moral courage to sit in the front row before it became popular.
Thanks pal!
Tim Parsons
You're as good as anyone at figuring out what works. You'll be fine and the show will be brilliant 😀 good luck and enjoy the experience!
Thanks Rob! I promised myself no tech this year after ethos, but YOU CAN’T FIGHT THE ART
Thankyou you lovely ducks!
Sending you many legs to break and wind in your sails to try out new things....wish we could be there.
Ethos worked spectacularly well with the prop so I'm sure you figure it out for my birthday-eve show
The projection sounds like a great idea, worth trying! Guess depends on how well the classic myths tie into strands of the show. If the audience can see a parallel to the stories you tell then it would add and not distract. You can make it work! p.s. Just listened to Stranger than Sci-fi on way home, really fascinating series so far and episode on inter-species communication. They even have conferences on plant cognition now, so amazing how much more sophisticated behaviour is than anyone thought until recently.
Dean
I'm so pleased that you're excited for the beginning of the Fringe. You seem as though you are truly in your element in the UK. Your smile says it all Alice. I hope I get to see Mythos in some form in the future. I feel as though my experience of the professional you is incomplete.
