5* Sunday

http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/theatre/edinburgh/E8831312738544/Vertigo.html

A lovely and very kind review of VERTIGO from WhatsOnStage. We are delighted and extremely grateful.

It came at the end of one the longest, most difficult and yet most exciting days of my life.

Saturday ended at 2am Sunday morning, with us all very damp, having spent the afternoon dashing about Edinburgh looking for last minute prop fixes. Three hours later my alarm went off, and we pack-horsed our way to the Bedlam for our 6am technical rehearsal. We had a lovely tech session with our brilliant technician Simon Perkins. I will be forever grateful to him for his incredible patience and generosity. Amother tech rehearsal followed, this time for Babolin's brilliant show 'To Avoid Precipice Cling To Rock', before a last minute props fix, flyering session, and then over to the Bedlam for first show.

I dont think we really expected to have an audience on our first Sunday, and were delighted and surprised to have such a wonderful audience in. We certainly didnt expext to have reviewers in on our first day, and never would have dreamed of being given such a lovely review on our first day. I am thrilled for several reasons. I am thrilled that our show resonated with that one person. I am also so grateful for getting an early review published. There are so many brilliant shows to choose from up here, and 5* on the flyer will hopefully really help us when it comes to inviting audiences in.

And finally, and I think most importantly, I hope that it might benefit next year's project, whatever that might end up being. If we can create a decent foundation for (Kindling)'s future projects, and attract a few more people's attention in preparation for next year's theatre makers, then that would be the best thing I can imagine having come out of this show.

In other news, last night's sleep was the most welcome I have ever recieved. This morning, I feel like I really am a part of the Edinburgh Fringe.

Tom