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Carnival of Monsters, Part One
Mar. 1st, 2008 05:16 pmThe sky is clear, there's better beer, in Adelaide.
Thanks Ben Folds. You totally prepared me for Adelaide.
As soon as I stepped off the plane, the place felt familiar. I had, after all, lived here for a month two years ago, and since the Fringe would be happening in all the same places, I already knew my way around. The place I organised for us to stay is on the small side, but not inconvenient; there's a bus that goes from just across the road all the way into the city every 15 minutes on weekdays, and pretty often at other times.
The venue for my show, the Fringe Factory (in the old Balfours Pie Factory), is beautiful; I've taken some photos and I'll put them up soon. My theatre space is wonderful, and I appreciate it all the more after the difficulty one of my friends has had with an independent venue manager who fulfilled none of the promises made in the hire contract. (She's had to find an alternate venue over the last three days, which was only possible because of the wonderful assistance of the Fringe staff.)
If the Factory has a down side, then it's being on the other side of town from the Garden of Unearthly Delights, a carnival style area with multiple venues, rides and sideshow style attractions which is run by independent company Strut 'n' Fret. It's quite a beautiful place to go, and after a shaky start - experienced by the whole Festival as the Clipsal 500 car race had been moved to coincide with the first week - it's at it's usual full capacity, with thousands of people showing up there. Which of course means they're not going to the Fringe Factory, but we'll see if that's picked up post-Clipsal soon.
I've seen a few shows already; mostly stuff I won't get a chance to see again, either because I missed them at other festivals or they'll clash with my schedule at Comedy Festival. I also missed a show today thanks to misreading the address; I didn't realise there'd be another Rundle Street in a suburb outside the CBD!
More soon. The show doesn't open until Tuesday, but the first couple of nights are sold out. Hopefully word of mouth, plus cross-promotion with Rob's other show, will get us some more sales for the rest of the season, which is pretty empty so far. If you know anyone who might be interested, please do tell them about the show! You can find out all the relevant details at my web site.
PS - on the Comedy Festival front, OBE has sold next to nothing but interest in the Museum Tour continues to escalate. I think it'll be a hit.
Thanks Ben Folds. You totally prepared me for Adelaide.
As soon as I stepped off the plane, the place felt familiar. I had, after all, lived here for a month two years ago, and since the Fringe would be happening in all the same places, I already knew my way around. The place I organised for us to stay is on the small side, but not inconvenient; there's a bus that goes from just across the road all the way into the city every 15 minutes on weekdays, and pretty often at other times.
The venue for my show, the Fringe Factory (in the old Balfours Pie Factory), is beautiful; I've taken some photos and I'll put them up soon. My theatre space is wonderful, and I appreciate it all the more after the difficulty one of my friends has had with an independent venue manager who fulfilled none of the promises made in the hire contract. (She's had to find an alternate venue over the last three days, which was only possible because of the wonderful assistance of the Fringe staff.)
If the Factory has a down side, then it's being on the other side of town from the Garden of Unearthly Delights, a carnival style area with multiple venues, rides and sideshow style attractions which is run by independent company Strut 'n' Fret. It's quite a beautiful place to go, and after a shaky start - experienced by the whole Festival as the Clipsal 500 car race had been moved to coincide with the first week - it's at it's usual full capacity, with thousands of people showing up there. Which of course means they're not going to the Fringe Factory, but we'll see if that's picked up post-Clipsal soon.
I've seen a few shows already; mostly stuff I won't get a chance to see again, either because I missed them at other festivals or they'll clash with my schedule at Comedy Festival. I also missed a show today thanks to misreading the address; I didn't realise there'd be another Rundle Street in a suburb outside the CBD!
More soon. The show doesn't open until Tuesday, but the first couple of nights are sold out. Hopefully word of mouth, plus cross-promotion with Rob's other show, will get us some more sales for the rest of the season, which is pretty empty so far. If you know anyone who might be interested, please do tell them about the show! You can find out all the relevant details at my web site.
PS - on the Comedy Festival front, OBE has sold next to nothing but interest in the Museum Tour continues to escalate. I think it'll be a hit.
