Edinburgh Diary.
Operation: Army of Reason.
Day 1. 31st of July.
First preview no one in the audience. The show goes on, just as well as we still have issues to iron out in the new space. Major problems are the walky talkies picking up other peoples transmitions. Also head nearly gets blown of by the gun firing a blank less than a foot from my ear. After the show we decide that we need to really start getting our pr campaign going to avoid such a poor turnout again. Feet are already swollen.
Day 2 1st of August.
Amy David and James meet at ten to give an internet radio interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJLnW-jt00). 10 30 we al convene to start papering the public. Its still only friday so the pickings are slim. 12 45 we go on. We have an audience, marvellous! Probably 20 people to begin with,15 by the end. Felt the energy was a bit low in my scene hopefully will improve. Still issues with the walky talkies.
We have a judge coming from amnesty international coming tomorrow so decide that papering tomorrow morning is a good idea.
Feet are very sore!
Day 3 2nd of August.
Four of us get rid of all but 5 of our free tickets. We feel very positive about today's performance. What happened after that, who knows. Possibly only 9 in the audience 4 of which are the wives of Timothy Leary. We are all over the place. The show runs over by 10 minutes. Still no solution to the walkie talkies. Emmy tried pretending she had an earpiece today. It didn't work. Everyone panics. We decide we have to begin our PR offensive straight away and with power. Operation Army of Reason is go! Armed with megaphone, flag, balaclavas, printed t-shirts, whistles, face paint and a priest we set of towards the royal mile, making as much noise as possible. We are scaring the crap out of everyone, its working ITS WORKING! However as we turn into the royal mile we are told that we cant use megaphone, whistles or set up a stand. We ignore the latter. After marching through the crowds we set up a stand and start flyering. Not enough attention. The I decide to set the priest down on his knees, mouth gagged and hands bound with an AOR operative either side, another waving a flag whilst the other two run around shouting and flyering. In an instance cameras are out, photos are being taken, crowds are gathering, interest is growing, I'm sweating. Occasionally the priest wriggles fee and we chase him through the crowds catching him and bringing him back to our spot. An hour and a half later, drained and moist our work is done. Hopefully we have started some momentum. Decide to continue our offensive. Tonight we shall meet and start spray painting our AOR stencils up and down the city.
Feet have blisters, they hurt a lot. I now walk funny.
Operation: Army of Reason.
Day 1. 31st of July.
First preview no one in the audience. The show goes on, just as well as we still have issues to iron out in the new space. Major problems are the walky talkies picking up other peoples transmitions. Also head nearly gets blown of by the gun firing a blank less than a foot from my ear. After the show we decide that we need to really start getting our pr campaign going to avoid such a poor turnout again. Feet are already swollen.
Day 2 1st of August.
Amy David and James meet at ten to give an internet radio interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJLnW-jt00). 10 30 we al convene to start papering the public. Its still only friday so the pickings are slim. 12 45 we go on. We have an audience, marvellous! Probably 20 people to begin with,15 by the end. Felt the energy was a bit low in my scene hopefully will improve. Still issues with the walky talkies.
We have a judge coming from amnesty international coming tomorrow so decide that papering tomorrow morning is a good idea.
Feet are very sore!
Day 3 2nd of August.
Four of us get rid of all but 5 of our free tickets. We feel very positive about today's performance. What happened after that, who knows. Possibly only 9 in the audience 4 of which are the wives of Timothy Leary. We are all over the place. The show runs over by 10 minutes. Still no solution to the walkie talkies. Emmy tried pretending she had an earpiece today. It didn't work. Everyone panics. We decide we have to begin our PR offensive straight away and with power. Operation Army of Reason is go! Armed with megaphone, flag, balaclavas, printed t-shirts, whistles, face paint and a priest we set of towards the royal mile, making as much noise as possible. We are scaring the crap out of everyone, its working ITS WORKING! However as we turn into the royal mile we are told that we cant use megaphone, whistles or set up a stand. We ignore the latter. After marching through the crowds we set up a stand and start flyering. Not enough attention. The I decide to set the priest down on his knees, mouth gagged and hands bound with an AOR operative either side, another waving a flag whilst the other two run around shouting and flyering. In an instance cameras are out, photos are being taken, crowds are gathering, interest is growing, I'm sweating. Occasionally the priest wriggles fee and we chase him through the crowds catching him and bringing him back to our spot. An hour and a half later, drained and moist our work is done. Hopefully we have started some momentum. Decide to continue our offensive. Tonight we shall meet and start spray painting our AOR stencils up and down the city.
Feet have blisters, they hurt a lot. I now walk funny.
No comments:
Post a Comment