Monday, August 31, 2015

Ed Fringe

So our magical month in Edinburgh has just wrapped. I would have loved to do more blogging during the actual festival, but sometimes it's better to just live life and not worry so much about documenting it, you know? That being said, this August was one of the best four weeks of my life. Let me fill you in on some of the details:

Like...reviews of the show?






As a first time company, we were over the moon to receive three different four star reviews for Reconciling. We knew we had a great show on our hands and were proud of what we'd brought no matter what, but it'd be a lie to say we didn't appreciate the validation. Plus it's a hella lot easier to get people to take a chance on new writing when they see stars papered over your posters and stapled to your flyers. We did a lot of stapling of stars. And we loved it. :)


Speaking of social media, here's some more of our filtered and hashtagged journey:







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Of course it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. It's an exhausting month, but I don't think I could have asked for a better group of people to go through it with. I love these guys with all my heart. The things they've done for me. It's hard to wrap my brain around it.




For those many family and friends back in America that didn't get to see Reconciling, our wonderfully talented friend Aslam came and took some production shots for us right before we left. Check out his great website here: Aslam Husain photography. Here are some of my faves!









My heart and mind are honestly too fried at this point to write any kind of poignant wrap-up of the whole experience. So instead, here a list.

Through Ed Fringe, we-

-successfully produced our first two shows.
-made some great friends doing theatre in different pockets of the globe.
-experienced support from our classmates and professors like no other.
-climbed an extinct volcano. (Arthur's Seat- look it up.)
-killed many a tree with our flyers. (really sorry about that, trees)
-saw some seriously AMAZING theatre.
-saw some seriously not-so-amazing theatre. (that is a true #edfringe experience)
-spent a month acting opposite lifelong friends.
-slept far too little and were the better for it.
-closed a fantastic first chapter of The Barrington Collective.

In other news, I leave London for the states in about 40 hours.

To the pieces of my heart I'm leaving behind all over the UK,


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