Festive prospects
As yet another Bank Holiday, for us freelancers the problem of how to fill another day of leisure presents itself. Two interviews last week. Nothing has come of them so far. A third more informal interview has resulted in me agreeing to direct a play for the Edinburgh festival this year. It's all happened rather quickly and I'm quite excited by it. My last visit to the festival was in 1990 when we took "Lady Bracknell's Confinement" the superb one man play by Paul Doust to the Pleasance for a week. I'd previously played Lady Bracknell in London and to take it to the festival for the last week was great fun. I have memories of very cheap digs- a hall of residence as I remember. Nice houses, a great review in The Scotsman to give me cred, late night drinking sessions with the Comedy Store players after their gigs at the Assembly Rooms, and coming back home having had a great time with a very big hole in my bank account. It was a unique occurrence and now twe...