The festival is progressing and all is mad. Huzzah. Someone told me that the average Fringe audience is comprised of nine people. I don’t find this very surprising considering that there are over 1,500 shows on. I have been keeping track of our audience totals and will be releasing the results in line-graph format when the month is over. All I can say is that there appears to be no rhyme or reason as to why some show are selling out while others sell zero tickets for a given night. Our house sales have varied from five people on our opening day to the record 40 people that showed up for today’s show. We were named a ‘Pick Of The Fringe’ and got a glowing review from ThreeWeeks (www.threeweeks.co.uk) and we’re hoping this will thrust our ticket sales into high gear. Only time will tell. In the meantime, I’m battling a nasty cold/sinus infection. Performing everyday while handing out flyers to the entire city in this miserable weather for the entire month really takes its toll. I’m still planning on writing up some reviews for some of the shows I’ve seen (I’ve been averaging about two shows a day), but I have been convinced to only write about the good ones. Who knows, maybe I won’t even get around to it at all. If this head cold keeps up, I’ll probably spend more time in this internet cafe than chasing down new shows to see. Off I go!