An audience of fringe proportions…
Posted by Fyse on Sunday, 7 August 2005
Again there has been too long a gap between updates, and way too much to catch up on now. We’re three performances into the run, and in general things have been going well, but with minimal audiences. We got a true taste of the Fringe on our first night, performing to a house of only four. This was by no means unusual, and a friend of mind opened to only one. The festival hadn’t properly started then, however, and things have been at least heading in the right direction, hitting a peak of twelve last night. We got a 4 star review in one of today’s papers though, so hopefully that’ll help things along.
We are performing at one of the C Venues, a chain with around a dozen stages at four different locations around central Edinburgh, and as such get a pass for free entry to any of their shows. This gives us a quite bewildering variety of shows to choose from at any given time of the day, and almost an obligation to rush around seeing as much as possible. Highlights so far include ‘Shakespeare for Breakfast’ and ‘The Threepenny Opera’ (that one by another Cambridge company). This afternoon I’m off to see an Oxford University ‘a cappella’ group (not really sure of the spelling there), then probably something else after our performance this evening. I must remember to sleep at some point too…
I’d probably prefer only a couple audience members! But then again, I’m deadly shy and would never willingly put myself on stage!
Hope you’re having fun!
The NY Fringe Fest is the same. I once did a show for one person. It’s always odd when the actors outnumber the audience members. The other actors wanted to take a vote on whether or not to perform–I say do it. After all, they paid didn’t they? The show must go on!