Time flies....
Submitted by JillS on Tue, 19/08/2008 - 13:42.
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!
I won’t bore you with the details….oh, go on then, if you must know….four stars from The Scotsman, The List, Fringe Review and Fest…plus some lovely comments from The Independent, The Stage, The Herald, Metro and BBC Radio.
We also got a mention in the Edinburgh Evening News for our fishy freebies – pots of ‘I Caught Crabs in Walberswick’ crab paste specially re-branded for the occasion.
But perhaps our proudest moment came last week when we won an award from The Scotsman….for the rudest merchandise. Our fashionable ‘I Caught Crabs!’ button badges were a big hit with the punters and also with sassy US comedienne Joan Rivers…when one of our actors, Andy, asked Joan whether she would like an ‘I Caught Crabs’ badge she looked at the motto, cackled and said she had better have two!
More to follow...
Karen
Marketing Officer
Eastren Angles
