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25th August: The Final Day

What a way to finish the run! My best performance and more people in from San Francisco. Within minutes of finishing, I was loading up my friend Richard'd 4 by 4 with my boxes and mirror and it's all over. It will be strange not to be performing tommorrow but I doubt my partner will miss going up to strangers asking: would you like any ideas for things to do today! Anywhere beyond Edinburgh and you could get yourself a police record.

We are celebrating tonight at the party for Pleasance Shows and by seeing our last show: The Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger.

I am amazed at the amount of feedback that I've had from this blog, so thanks to everyone who read my random madness and an even bigger thank you to everyone who came. Also thanks to Richard Jordan, Martin Shippen, Emma Betteridge, Sophie, Katie, Mark (at Below) and Richard Hawkes and in the best tradition....everyone else who knows me. Cheers!

23 August 2008

Today was one of the best performances undoubtedly, the singing was effortless and round. Andrew commented on it and also friends who know the show very well. The performance seemed so easy and controlled, people were with tears in their eyes, not the best in terms of numbers but very engaged...some came to congratulate me personally, including the wife of my producer whom I hadn't met yet.

It is funny, now that all feels so easy, we have to finish, wrap up and go. I suppose it is the same every year for everybody but it doesn't make it easier! I hope to go back home and keep up my work routine that I created here...sounds like a New Year's resolution...but thankfully I have already some engagements that will keep me on the strait and narrow, looking forward to more yoga...

Yesterday I had two ladies from Turkey in the audience that really enjoyed the show, very engaged and participative, they were accompanied by a man, visible from England...later in the night I was invited to go and see Dorian Grey with the Matthew Bourn company, you have never seen such magnificent bodies, so good performers and the show: fan-tas-tic, if it comes near you, go and see it!...that was a great show indeed...

As always I applied myself to flyer the audience at the end of the show, they all looked very happy and the flyers were flying...suddenly who do I see amongst the crowds? the two Turkish ladies from earlier in the day.

We had a good chat and exchanged numbers and mails. One of them turned out to be an actress and the other a professor in something, very interesting and engaging personalities, the man who was accompanying them turned out to be the partner of the composer of the music of the show! How is that for a coincidence! We were duly introduced, what a hoot! I'm sure there will be more to this story, I really would love to go to Istambul to play Caruso and the Quake, or collaborate with such a great composer in some way!

Lovely encounters like that make all the hard work at the Fringe worthwhile, really. My very good friends Tedd and Richard are here on some sort of honey moon, they look soo happy together...wish them all the best

I will have to say good bye to Edinburgh for another year, and I feel sad it is coming to an end...

Everything is wrapping up, Press room, performers center, etc etc....I'll miss them all

love
Ignacio