Entry for August 06, 2007

Day 17 of The YES Experiment
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Our Edinburgh Fringe venue the Smirnoff Underbelly contacted us today to advise that a polish theatre producer is coming to see Sketchy! at the Fringe. Apparently, he is putting together a festival of children's theatre in Warsaw, and wants to see if the show is suitable.
A more suspicious person than me might suspect that Mr Polish Theatreperson, is in fact someone from Leith on the scrounge for free tickets. I am going to test him though, in the manner of German Officers in the Great Escape. I am going to engage him in fluent Polish shortly before the show, but then cunningly, I am going to offer him a bag of chips. If he is from Edinburgh he will be unable to resist asking me for "salt and sauce", and at that point I will be entitled to perform a citizen's arrest.
On the other hand, if he actually is Polish, I fear that he is going to be very confused by Sketchy!. My first language is English and I directed the show, and I still don't understand most of the jokes. Do you think it is possible that a script might actually gain something in translation? If so, I might be off to Warsaw in the autumn.
Anyway, today's Yes! was a late night cup of tea with the in-laws. I was collecting a final script from my sister-in-law (yes, yes, I know - a final version of the script 8 days before the show goes on - we are nothing if not well-organised at Practical Magic). To be honest I was ready to go home and collapse, but any invitation cannot be resisted this month.
Anyway I'm glad I stayed. I got a pancake and had a nice wee chat. If that isn't a result, I don''t know what is.