Tonight I went
down to the Market Theatre to pose for photos for my Edinburgh artwork.
Pleasingly, it
didn’t take long to get what we wanted, though it will be Glyn’s photoshop
that will ultimately swing it and make the idea work. The premise is that I’ll
appear to be falling through the air as if I’ve leapt from a plane or off the
top of a building, to fit in with the ‘downfall’ theme. To make it work, I
jumped up and down repeatedly in front of a green screen, ensuring I lifted my
feet up behind me enough that the perspective will look right once we add me to
the right backdrop; this seemed the most sensible way to do things, rather than
arranging for me to actually leap from a great height.
Earlier today,
Glyn and I popped into Hitchin Town Hall to organise a few last-minute things
for Thursday’s Harry Hill / Simon Munnery Mostly Comedy. What’s good is we
managed to alleviate the majority of our concerns about what we know is not the
most user-friendly space, thanks to the size of the room and a number of
bizarre modifications they made to the venue when it was recently refurbished.
The seed of worry
was firmly planted at the weekend when I emailed our contact at the Town Hall
(through which we’d made the booking) for an out-of-office reply to shoot back saying
he’d left the company. This didn’t exactly fill us with confidence as, despite
trying to get him to put our agreement in writing - even informally - he never
did, so a number of things were now going to be just on trust; also, it was
good of him to let us know he was off.
Thankfully, the
woman we spoke to at the venue today was completely on-it. For starters, when
we arrived she told us she’d just replied to the email that I’d forwarded to
her once I was aware of our contact’s departure, which, when I looked at it,
she’d done the nearly unheard of and answered all my queries; this almost
never happens, so it was a pleasant surprise to deal with someone who was very efficient.
At least, I now
feel we can head towards Thursday’s show with a modicum of confidence. This
also hopefully means I can spend much of the rest of this week working on my
show instead of being snowed down in admin. Watch this space...