Tonight was the first night of the final week.  So much has happened, so many experiences, so much I’ve learned.  Now, if we could only start again in a couple of weeks time we would be perfect!

But this is what it’s all about.  I came here thinking I knew how it would be.  I had no clue.  I didn’t know how you had to jostle with your venue for poster space, fight for audiences against 3000 other shows, somehow make your show stand out.  We have been really lucky though.  We’ve been at 50% or more capacity every night, when apparently the average fringe audience is 4!

The show tonight was again very different.  Onstage it was once more stifling and at one point I saw trickles of sweat run down George’s face!  It felt like a good one though.  Two weeks in and we are still finding new stuff every performance.  I love that.  Saying the lines the same way every night would bore me to tears and having George and Kirsten on stage with me and responding differently every night just makes it so much fun.

I had my cousin Lorraine there, who is like a wee sister to me.  She has heard all the rehearsal stories  and knows all my fears and insecurities.  It meant everything that she liked it and her friends did too.  Kirsten had her daughter and boyfriend there and they have spent hours running lines with her, so it was brilliant to hear them say how much they enjoyed it – Alice is particularly fond of scene 6 when Jamie gets his comeuppance!

5 more performances to go and I am determined that they will be our best yet.  We may or may not have had a reviewer in tonight and I do hope for a good one.  But those guys don’t define this show.  The audience does that.