This is it: MY 2016 EDINBURGH
FRINGE SETTLEMENT IS IN.
To anyone who
suggests my comedy career is progressing slowly: I WAVE THIS IN YOUR FACE. Look
at the figures and you can clearly see I’m winning; I’m nearly three quid up on
the game. Take that, Mr Chilcott, Careers Advisor at Thomas Alleyne School; I
can make my living as a performer (as long as somebody agrees to consolidate my
debt).
Admittedly, that
£2.52 BACS payment doesn’t take into account every aspect of the cost of
my recent EdFringe run; this is just the Box Office Settlement after the
remaining half of my venue hire fee was paid off. There's still the
accommodation, the brochure fee, the posters & flyers, the flyerers, the
subsistence, the PR, the previews, the train tickets and the adverts to
consider. But forget all that; I’ve done good. I can afford to buy 6.3 red
peppers from Sainsbury's and live like a red-peppered king.
Joking aside,
thing did work out pretty well this year. Doggett & Ephgrave have had
Fringe runs together that cost far more to put on and took a lot less back. My first solo Edinburgh was a great and enjoyable exercise that in most senses paid
off, plus I now know what I could do to make the next one fair
better, both financially and creatively. Just don’t ask me to break a
fiver at the moment as I don’t have enough (unless you don’t mind me taking half as commission).