Previewing the Situation.
Today I visited The Actors’ Temple: the venue where I’ll be previewing
new material alongside Mr PBR (A.K.A. Peter Broughton-Rates) from the 28th
February onwards.
It’s a lovely little space and perfect for our needs. It only seats twenty, or thirty-five at a push. That’s good. There’ll be less pressure to fill it. Working on the assumption that we split our audience allocation down the middle, I only need to find ten willing friends a month. I’ll have to be fickle: befriending ten people every three weeks or so, then dropping them for a different ten to encourage a good turnover. As long as I don’t base my expectations on the amount of people following me on Google+ (twelve) I should be all right. Worse case scenario, I’ll turn to Grindr.
There’s a projector and screen rigged, so I can go down that route should I choose to. At the moment, I intend to use A.V. minimally to punctuate a few jokes, though if I’m struggling for ideas as the months go by, I may change strategy. It would be nice not to though, so I can differentiate from my work with Glyn.
It’s a lovely little space and perfect for our needs. It only seats twenty, or thirty-five at a push. That’s good. There’ll be less pressure to fill it. Working on the assumption that we split our audience allocation down the middle, I only need to find ten willing friends a month. I’ll have to be fickle: befriending ten people every three weeks or so, then dropping them for a different ten to encourage a good turnover. As long as I don’t base my expectations on the amount of people following me on Google+ (twelve) I should be all right. Worse case scenario, I’ll turn to Grindr.
There’s a projector and screen rigged, so I can go down that route should I choose to. At the moment, I intend to use A.V. minimally to punctuate a few jokes, though if I’m struggling for ideas as the months go by, I may change strategy. It would be nice not to though, so I can differentiate from my work with Glyn.
(Ha. "Work".)
The only downside is I’ll probably need to bring an amp with me, so we can use a mic. I wouldn’t relish doing stand-up without one. It also prevents me getting touchy-feely with the audience; two-handed, anyway.
Seeing the space has made me excited about doing it. I only have one preview before I do half an hour of stand-up at The Soho Theatre in March for The Comedy Project. I’d better get working. If all else fails, I’ll do ten minutes very slowly.
The only downside is I’ll probably need to bring an amp with me, so we can use a mic. I wouldn’t relish doing stand-up without one. It also prevents me getting touchy-feely with the audience; two-handed, anyway.
Seeing the space has made me excited about doing it. I only have one preview before I do half an hour of stand-up at The Soho Theatre in March for The Comedy Project. I’d better get working. If all else fails, I’ll do ten minutes very slowly.
