Well the "foxes" (Jayne's daughters and their friend Sarah) have left. Slowly the house is emptying. Only two more days for us. And then it's back to real life. Hard to believe. We are all kind of in denial. Although we are all in need of sleep, our own beds and vegetables it has been such a wonderful trip and will be hard to say goodbye to it.
Thursday I went to the Book Festival. Yes there's also a Book Festival going on here. And the film festival, the Fringe and the Edinburgh Festival. Shocking that we get any audience at all. Kathy went to see Alice Munro interview Margaret Atwood. Funny that we chose not to do book club, our scene where I play Margaret Atwood, and yet she's here. But we only had an hour and we couldn't do everything. They have a tent set up and a huge book store inside with a cafe and signing rooms. It's really great. Ian Rankin is speaking. Lots of great authors.
Then I met my friend Raoul for lunch. We had a nice time catching up. He had just finished his show. His is at 11:15 everyday. So gruelling doing a solo Hamlet in the morning! I can't imagine. Some people hung out after to tell him how wonderful he was. And he is. Brilliant. Must see show.
Then I did an interview with Robin at the BBC for Jian Ghomeshi's CBC radio show The Q. It was good and is online at http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2007/08/16/women-clothed.html
After the show I went to see Kristen Schaal's show. She is an American actress who is currently on the HBO series Flight of the Concords. Great comic actress but didn't really like her show. I've realized seeing a couple of one-woman shows that the calibre of our show is much more put together than many of the shows here. I mean it is the fringe but I guess I expected something more slick. Afterwards I met up with Jayne, the foxes and Jayne's new relatives who came to see the show. We went to The Standing Order, a beautiful bar that used to be a bank.
Yesterday I took it easy. Did some shopping then had to be back at the house at 2pm to get ready for a photo shoot we were doing. There's a photographer here, Steven (don't know his last name) who takes shots of many of the Gilded Balloon acts. We saw his work displayed at the theatre and really liked it and then he offered to take our photo. So we got all dressed up and went to the top of Calton Hill (I have photos from there from the other day) and we got some amazing shots. Then we went to a pub around the corner from our house and took some shots at the bar. Really fun. He's a great photographer and fun to hang with.
The show went well last night. Then we just hung out at the Gilded Balloon afterwards. We haven't really done that much. And it was the foxes last night so we kept it simple. We went to the Library Bar (see above photo) which was rocking. Then home so the girls could pack for their early flight this morning. Deb and Luke got tickets to the Tatoo which was great because Deb REALLY wanted to go. They said it was spectacular and she cried throughout. A perfect night.
Off to have breakfast then some shopping. Then to a show at 4pm. Only two more shows for us. Oh by the way we got two more great reviews. One in the Scottish Gay magazine. They compared us to French and Saunders which is a HUGE compliment for me. And another in Edfest magazine. You can read it here http://www.edfestmag.co.uk/content/view/163/45/
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