At the Edinburgh Festival 6

The Fringe is over for me for 2008.  I was only planning on doing my show for the first ten days but events elsewhere means I had to cut back even more.  My final performance was last Thursday night.

It was an almost entirely positive experience.  The beauty of doing a run at a single venue is that every night you build on what you learnt the night before; you feel your act sharpen and tighten as your timing improves.

Offstage I had time to think about the underlying mechanics of the festival experience; observing how the invisible hand ushers audiences out of one show and down the road and into the next.  I had the chance to consider what projects I might bring back here in the future, under what conditions and to what end.  Being self-employed I need to consider the opportunity cost of a month of late nights in Edinburgh.

At my last show we had standing room only again.  We ended on a high.