Frustration

Being a non-performing director at a festival is a very different thing to the same role in a London season and some days it's easy to understand why there are so many solo performers at the Fringe.

The downside of going it alone is of course that you prepare alone, flier alone and spend a miserable 23 hours locked in your own head after a show tanks.

The upside is that your cast (aka 'you') turn up when they're meant to, focused and ready to engage in the task that brought you to Edinburgh in the first place; the show.

Suffice to say, I am learning. Every day I am learning.