Edinburgh Day 7 (8/4)
For the rest of EdFringe, Sundays will be our days off, but as we get rolling, today what have our last ‘preview’.
Before that happened though, it was what is starting to become a typical morning. Breakfast, writing, workout, errands, etc.
Next, now that I’m confident that my body is operating fully on local time, I took a chance on a nap. Given the house was pretty quiet and there was nice breeze blowing through the window in my bedroom, it was a *good* nap.
The rest of the afternoon was similarly chill. I mostly noodled around on the new guitar and did some reading.
Before too long it was time again to head to the show. Of course, we’d been spoiled by unseasonable nice weather our entire time here, so I made the mistake of leaving the house without looking at the weather before I left. Sadly, this meant it started raining as soon as I got 50 meters from the house. I did not have my raincoat with me, so I relied on my little travel umbrella. Needless to say it wasn’t the most pleasant walk to the theatre I’ve had so far, but hopefully it will serve as a learning experience.
As our only Sunday show, one of the questions we had was whether we’d be able to draw any audience. Apparently Sundays are notoriously light at the Fringe, and many shows choose not to even run on those days, so I was glad that just before curtain, after the band had played a pre-show tune, to hear a healthy smattering applause from my place off-stage.
The show went well, and we found out after that among the audience was a press/curator type that invited us to another press event in the upcoming week. It would be similar to the one we participated in a few days ago for Greenside, but would draw from acts across the whole Fringe, and we’d have a whole 5 m,minutes to present to the audience. Another success!
The last item on the agenda for the day was to walk down the block with a bunch of our team to catch the show our tour guide from earlier in the week was performing in - “Mary, Queen of Rock!”. It was a rock-and-roll telling of Mary, Queen of Scots’ story, and in many ways was very simpatico with out show, aiming to give Mary back her voice in the telling of her tale. Recommended.
