I Caught Crabs in Walberswick

I can’t believe we are already in the final week of our Edinburgh run. What a fun-packed four weeks it has been!
Eastern Angles staff have been taking it in turns to travel up from Suffolk and do a weekly stint supporting the hard working ‘I Caught Crabs in Walberswick’ cast and crew.
I took the first shift – week one…technical glitches, dress rehearsal jitters, first night nerves, last minute ‘papering’ panics, ‘comp’ confusion and wall-to wall reviewers.
My days were, of course, dominated by frantic flyering and fly-postering. (Thanks to Fran and Panda, our fantastic Arts Council Escalator East to Edinburgh contacts, and our ‘foot soldier’ Sam who provided brilliant back up!)
Luckily the press seemed to like the show and, by the end of the first week, I was scurrying down to the Fringe Office to type-up, print-out, cut-up and staple-on hundreds of slips of paper bearing those all-important star ratings!

It’s day thirteen of rehearsals for I Caught Crabs in Walberswick and things are hotting-up here at the Sir John Mills Theatre in sunny Ipswich (quite literally…as I write it’s a very sultry 26 degrees in the admin office!)
With just four days to go until the cast and production cram themselves into the Eastern Angles van and travel four hundred miles to Edinburgh we are all busy with last minute preparations for our run at the Pleasance Courtyard (Cavern).
The cast, Andrew, Rosie, Harry, Aaron and Gemma (AKA One, Two, Wheeler, Fitz and Dani) are hard at work next door in the air-less auditorium choreographing their dance moves (to the sound of Justice vs. Simian’s super-catchy club anthem ‘We are your Friends’).