mostly david ephgrave

My equipment and luggage for Edinburgh is now all packed and ready to be shipped up to Scotland tomorrow, with me following a day later. Getting my gear together was yet another reminder of how much time is spent doing anything but working on the show, as there’s just so much involved in taking a production (he said grandly) to the Fringe; quite frankly, it’s tedious, as all the extraneous stuff is never what you set out to do. As silly as it is, I noted this morning that I didn’t make it into The Telegraph’s top 25 Funniest Fringe Jokes list again this year, when in an unspoken way, I had my fingers crossed I would; it’s that standard Fringe lesson: don’t get caught up in hope or expectations or you’ll wind up disappointed. It doesn’t really matter; it’s such an arbitrary thing, but subconsciously it made me feel a little down, as I want the show to be a worthwhile venture and sadly, it’s things like this that make a show's success more tangib...