Day 15 and 16 Edinblog: Home and Away
Added 2016-08-19 02:33:54 +0000 UTCWednesday I spent most of the morning in bed trying to kick a bit of overtiredness, then met my friend musician Hannah PC of The Raglins to talk about musical arrangements of comedy words, and then went to my show. Socialised a little bit afterwards and then went home to a delightful surprise present from home.
I woke up very early on Thursday to some bad news from home.
I felt no less tired than yesterday, but with a lot more on my brain plate. I walked around trying to relearn Savage, which opens on Sunday at The City Cafe. Then I went to a few shows that I've promised to go to, which involved a lot of running between gigs, and then I had a spot at the Around The World gig in The Caves.
From there I went and met Tiff and Mary Lynn Rajskub (yeah, really) for a cuppa tea and chat. I watched the beginning of Tiff's show before dashing off to mine.
It was the worst show I've done so far, and it made me feel pretty miserable.
Then I hung out with Tiff, who had also had a hard-work gig, which made me feel less miserable (company! something about miserable companies? the poor-tune 500?) and then I went to do the Briefs Factory Presents Sweatshop show, which let me watch glorious circus and physical performers do incredibly funny, inspirational and wild things before running wildly on an increasingly fast treadmill for 5 minutes while screaming out jokes at a gloriously receptive audience in a very cathartic way. Highlight of my day. Mary Lynn Rajskub and her manager came out to watch it. I don't actually know if it was any good for the audience. It was a lot of fun for me.
Then I got home and wrote up a comedy article about the most recent set of comedy community rape accusations and subsequent backlash, and then I wrote this and now I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow is a new day, I guess. Except that it's nearly 4am already, and tomorrow is today.
So, Sleep.
Chiz Punks.
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Alice Fraser is doing two shows at The Edinburgh Fringe in the month of August:
The Resistance, 8.15 at The Gilded Balloon every night from 3 - 29 August
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Comments
Good article at SBS Comedy Alice. Wild mobs with pitchforks worry me, but it's a workplace. Why can't people feel safe in their workplace?
2016-08-19 12:11:56 +0000 UTCOkay - spill Fraser! Why was the show "bad"?? Was it the audience? We're you under pressure from outside factors? What's going on?
Dean
2016-08-19 07:20:47 +0000 UTC
