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Tidemark
Edinburgh Fringe Experience 2004
Friday 6 August 2004
Preview
day 2 and things continue to go well for 'Odysseus and the Really
Freaky Monsters with an audience of nearly 70, including, although
we didn't know it at the time, the Scotsman reviewer and her tribe
of small children!
The
Scotsman is the national newspaper for Scotland and during the Festival
is the main source of reviews for Fringe shows to help inform audience
choice.
The
newspaper has a huge team of reviewers each seeing several shows
a day for the duration of the Fringe.
Getting
your reviewer in early on in the run and hopefully receiving a favourable
review can make all the difference to how well a show sells. The
reviewer grades each show using a star rating from 0 (stay at home
and watch the Olympics) to 5 stars (kill for a ticket).
With
over 1500 shows to review, competition is fierce and getting your
reviewer in still doesn't mean that it will get into print quickly.
If
a show is really unlucky, a review may not be published until after
the final performance or sometimes not at all. Watch this space
for news about 'Odysseus'.
Meanwhile,
over in the Pleasance Courtyard, one of the 'Delicates and Smoke'
props has kept the staff on their toes.
In
'Smoke', Greg played by Roger Bartlett, is preparing to give a fire
safety talk to a local WI group. In his talk he demonstrates a smoke
alarm.
Unfortunately,
the technical staff in our space hadn't realised that the smoke
alarm would be sounded during the performance and when the first
ear-splitting beeps filled the air, there was a flurry of frantic
activity to avert a full-scale evacuation of the Courtyard!
Oops!
Rebecca
will be reporting on Tidemark's experiences throughout this year's
Festival. Come back to see how she's doing!
Are
you taking a production to Edinburgh this year? Do you want to tell
the world about it? If so, let us know by emailing threecounties@bbc.co.uk
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