Edinblog day 1: Opening Night

Last night’s last preview was a disaster. Just a nice quiet smiling audience slowly sapping my confidence in the show as noise bleed from the nearby rooms filled the empty space where laughs should have been. But it’s opening night tonight! Good to go in hungry. And the telegraph is in, and another reviewer. So that’s nice.

Generally I’m biased against Friday night audiences in favour of Thursday night audiences, but maybe because last night’s Thursday was bad, tonight’s Friday will be good? Holding on to hope.

I definitely have confidence in the show. I think what’s missing is some of the emotional gears of live performing. In the last two years of barely any gigs, I’ve lost the top fine honed edge of my ability to adjust and adapt to a crowd. The nice thing about edinburgh is that I know by the end of the month I’ll be sharp again. Just, I’d like that to be tonight please.

Currently putting the baby to sleep by feeding her (the lazy man’s Lullabye) and will then jump on to this week’s tea with Alice salon.

For all who are interested I’ll be doing an all levels live salon at a tea shop in Edinburgh every Tuesday of the fringe at 2pm. (Aka completely informal and unstructured non-show human interaction in the shape of me sitting in a tea shop and having a chat to whoever shows up). Details to follow.

I’ve been making some straight wife guy/new dad acts uncomfortable (partly on purpose), by asking if they have their babies with them at the festival, and then when (most often) they say they don’t, I nod sagely and go “ah, a man fringe then”. No matter how enlightened a coparent they may be, it’s fascinating to watch the justifications over the baseline assumption that they’re the non-essential parent, that the mother’s fine to run the ship solo, or that they wouldn’t be “good at” parenting during the fringe.

Anyway! I’ll chat about it in the salon in 5. Laser Fraser’s asleep on the boob. P.S. She has her own venue pass, and it’s the cutest thing you’ve ever seen.

Xx

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