Day 3: Our first non-preview performance

August 8, 2011 | By Ingrid | Filed in: Edinburgh.

Today was the day of truth.  Would we actually be able to get an audience if people had to pay for tickets?

We put a handful of tickets up on Theatre Ninja for free and both today and tomorrow, we’re selling tickets at two for the price of one, but still.  It’s one thing to entice people into a theatre for a free show and quite another to ask them to pay for the experience.

Yet again, we were dumbfounded and delighted when we arrived at Paradise in Augustine’s and saw the queue in front of the box office.  Yet again, we actually ended up turning  people away in the end. Yet again, the audience was brilliant.  There’s nothing better than the feeling that an audience is having fun right along side you.

I can attribute today’s success to the pink guitar that we discovered this morning and took with us to the Royal Mile.  Not only did it mean we had some accompaniment to our flyering songs, but it goes so well with our beautiful pink dresses….


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