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Tidemark
Edinburgh Fringe Experience 2004
Saturday 7 August 2004
Devastated
isn't the word for it. My son, Richard, would probably use that
awful word favoured by teenagers everywhere - 'gutted'.
The
show before 'Delicates and Smoke' has been overrunning again. Overrunning
at the Fringe is the eighth deadly sin!
Many
visitors to the Fringe only come for a few days and in order to
pack in as many shows as possible, they strategically plan their
reviewing schedules so that they can dash off as one show ends to
another venue just in time, often with only seconds to spare, to
see another show.
Venue
managers allocate each show a performance slot plus a ten minute
get-in and five minute strike.
If
a show goes up late, it finishes late and the knock-on consequences
to other performances across the whole of the Fringe can be devastating.
So,
not only does the previous show overrun by twelve minutes, eating
into our get-in and performance time, but as we're standing waiting
to go in to set up, who should be in the audience leaving the offending
show? Alan Rickman.
Seriously,
there he is, larger than life and twice as gorgeous, coming out
of the wrong show!!
Thankfully,
from somewhere deep inside me, my self-restraint kicks in and I
refrain from blurting something out to him, which would have been
highly unprofessional and probably very embarrassing.
So,
I content myself with watching his lovely back disappearing down
the stairs and out of my life forever. Ho hum. So near and yet so
far...
Gutted!
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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