tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546502337181279.post8834968689427443848..comments2023-07-14T11:14:21.281+01:00Comments on The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide – Live!: Edinburgh Fringe dreamsMark Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14877407195452350555noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546502337181279.post-46839204726835994052012-09-04T14:48:10.831+01:002012-09-04T14:48:10.831+01:00Since I've been back from Edinburgh, I've ...Since I've been back from Edinburgh, I've had dreams nearly every night of not being able to find my venue; being in someone else's show; forgetting all of my lines; and getting lost in Scotland. I wake up not knowing what country I am in. I wake up wondering how I will get through flyering that day, as well as getting through the show that night. It's like 3 weeks of performing at the Fringe has turned into one full year of memories that haunt me. And yes, I will be back next summer. Let's hope the dreams stop! Peter Michael Marinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05274788553060246105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546502337181279.post-9494800800276017472012-06-04T21:16:05.044+01:002012-06-04T21:16:05.044+01:00I had a hideous dream last year that an elderly co...I had a hideous dream last year that an elderly couple sat in the front row of my show, PassionFlower. <br /><br />Wait there's more. As soon as the 2nd song (Marigold, by Nirvana) finished they proclaimed loudly "Well, this isn't Jazz!" and got up to leave. Instead of exiting the way they came in (by the right door) they attempted to leave by the left. Which took them backstage, into a long and echoing corridor, whereupon they started to bicker as to "How to get out of this bloody place". They then re-entered the theatre where they asked if anyone could tell them how to get out. Unfortunately no-one came forward, so I stopped the show and pointed to the correct door. "Come on Neville" the wife trumpeted, and they duly exited.<br /><br />But wait. That wasn't a dream. It actually happened. Bring on the nightmares I say!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02995246564378053696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546502337181279.post-12607235686838330212012-06-02T18:49:05.929+01:002012-06-02T18:49:05.929+01:00In his collection of letters, "I'm Here I...In his collection of letters, "I'm Here I Think, Where Are You?", actor Timothy West describes a dream he had while performing King Lear at the Edinburgh Festival in 1971. "I dreamed that the whole of the next morning's Daily Telegraph was devoted to a bad notice for my Lear. It started with the headlines on the front page, ran through the home news, the foreign news, sport, the weather forecast, even the<br />crossword."<br /><br />He then visits his mother, still in the dream, only to discover she agreed with the review. "'Darling,' she said. 'People run out of acting, just as I sometimes run out of butter.'"Mark Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14877407195452350555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546502337181279.post-10074561622406772682012-06-02T10:16:36.173+01:002012-06-02T10:16:36.173+01:00A day or so ago I had my first Fringe nightmare; t...A day or so ago I had my first Fringe nightmare; this would not ordinarily be worth of comment, but this was my first in twenty years. The content was, from what I can tell, fairly standard - I was starting my show, and I had not learned all the routines for it. I went to my case to get a deck of cards, but it was a mess and I couldn't find anything. As I said, fairly typical magic show dream. <br /><br />That it happened in the hour between waking at 6 and _really_ waking at 7 meant that it was particularly vivid for me when I woke up, and it took a few moments for me to calm down and realise what had happened.<br /><br />The cause is not hard for me to work out; my mother died a couple of weeks ago, and various hospital visits and funeral arrangements mean that I am well over a month behind in my Fringe prep. It was just my brain telling me to get my bahookie in gear, but using shock tactics, many outlawed by the Geneva Convention, to do it. <br /><br />Still, I'm sure that Obsession - A life with magic will be ready, when the time comes :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04721345074245906425noreply@blogger.com