Day 4 Sunday the 3rd of August
Up early again, we have the independent on Sunday coming to review the show today so papering and flyering on the royal mile is a must again. Before the show I try and work on my physicality as a teenager as it seemed to disappear yesterday. We have 28 in the audience! our highest number so far. Just before we go on we all remind it each other to hit the lines, lift the energy up. It works! From start to finish we are nailing it. Everyone is buzzing afterwards. We here commenting as they leave that they found the show riveting. Maybe this is a result from the work on the royal mile. There is still room for improvement but hopefully this is it. We've got the ball rolling now. Need to buy new trainers, feet cant take much more.
Day 5 Monday the 4th of August
Another decent crowd maybe 15 but we are not as good as yesterday, time is a bit slow as is the energy. David has them in fits of laughter by the end of the show though, two days in a row now, he's getting into it. Great applause during our ovation, even a loud whoop whoop. Of to the royal mile again. Maybe the novelty has worn out but we don't seem to be giving it as much effort as on the previous occasion. Everyone's voices are scratching but we still get a lot of attention and people are approaching us wanting to know more about the play. Things are looking up. Walking with a bizarre limp now.
Day 6 Tuesday the 5th of August
Big crash back down to reality. Only four people in the audience two are reviewers, one is a friend of Mikes. Whilst waiting in the wings we even heard one man telling Steph that we should not bother as he would prefer not to sit and watch by himself, luckily the other 3 arrived. But we were not good. Hard to be when there are only 4 people watching but we should be better than this by now. Energy down, volume down, rhythm down AGAIN!!! It appears the we are not doing enough promotional work. Nothing is clearly organised enough yet. Maybe this is the wake up call we need on that front. Bought myself some nice new trainers. Feet feel orgasmic.
Day 7 Wednesday the 6th of August
Raining. Heavily. All day. Cant wear my new trainers as they are to thin and will just get soaked. Gutted! We got a bad review from the stage last night. Laid into the script and the acting. Everyone is pumped for today.Audience numbers are low again. Casting director amongst them as well as reviewers from the British Theatre Guide and 3Weeks.Out early again to try and get people in but due to rain no one is out on the streets. Emmy has organised Ed fest TV to come and record us before the show, Greg and Mike do monologues for the camera and James has a radio interview with radio Leith. We nail the performance our best yet. Everyone raises their game. Steph says without doubt that was our best. Energy up, volume up everything. We must maintain this now for tomorrow as we have the scotsman coming in as well as an agent from Pat Lovett. Due to the rain we decide against going to the royal mile. Instead as a group we go for lunch and draw out a schedule of serious theatre during the day that we can flyer outside. We split them into four small groups so that every day each of us will know where we have to be and which shows to go to and in which order. Hopefully this will work. Cold wet and important people coming tomorrow. Feet are the least of my concerns.
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