Strickly a business post:

What!? Richelle, whatever shirt and/or trousers of mine you have, you can just put them right back where you found them!

-tyler

Happy Birthday Bill

by: Alex

It was Bill's birthday! So we had American Toast... they insisted it was not french, because it was too good.





the candles melted in the toast... at 22 of them. It lit on fire.



It was Basilica, our basil plant's birthday too. We left her in the sun a couple days before this, so she was a little upset with us. But we dressed her all festive and she greened up a little bit. She is as good as new now.



A sneaky photo durring the show. But, a Photographer took some pictures yesterday for the Metro, another review that should come out soon. Fingers crossed that it is as good as the others! The painting in the back is my giant Vargas Pinup.. it turned out ok, i puctured it much nicer looking, but i supose that is because i pictured the stage much more attractive as well.

show number 9 of 24... a long road ahead.
alex

Updates and Photos...

Ready for a meta-internet moment... this is us right now.

that is the entrance to the theatre where we do the show every day. Tyler is in there acting right now. Billy and I being the webrats that we are are doing front of house work today so, we have to sit out here... also the show is sold out... where would we sit?!

Today while flyering tyler and I did a bit of a photo commentary. We took all of these photos in b&w with in 5 mins of our shift. We were on the mile passing out flyers for 2 hours today and you see some crazy things and people. These are some of the more tame things we saw today, so next time I will walk around and find interesting sights for you all.


here are some pleasent protestors that are doing a bit of a satire walking down the road doing some advertizing for their play.

another odd marketing tactic. This is a woman in costume (i hope) chatting tyler up about each others plays. Her flyers are beer coasters. Briliant.

tyler with our 'look how great we are with all of our stars and such' poster board. We have a more explicit name for it than that, it is funny for us (to a bunch of people living in eachothers ellbows).

splinter cell the musical anyone?

not the best marketing ideas. The younger traveling groups always have horrible ideas like this that make you want to see the play less.

happy come to my show tyler.

rejected tyler.

dancing romeo and juliet characters (the costumes are beautiful but it is getting horrid reviews... hehheh.)

yeah, you can figure this one out as much as me. Just know that this man was moving very very very slow. It took him about an hour to work his way all the way around the mile (which is no where near a mile).



FINALLY, rest and Guiness for Tyler.

and tea for me.

Edinburgh is odd, the city is split in two by a dried up river that I think the English decided to make into a rail passage. The right side of these photos is Old Town, where the castle is and the Royal Mile and our venue and the bulk of the Festival. The left side of the images is New Town where other less culturally inspired buildings are. except the Scott monument is in new town (you can see it in some of these photos.



Nick, finially ... this one is for you. I had a whole conversation with him about how i perfer the girl monkey because of how good her handling is. Tyler told Ay Ay (right?) that he was has favorite but that you use the big monkey. I dont think at Ay Ay cared.

Play is wrapping up. Talk to you all soon!

love
a

Just a coupla photos

this is the Scott monuments, to Sir. Walter Scott. It is creepy as hell and just sticks out of the skyline of the city like the evil tower in Lord of the Rings. I love it.



I tried to discribe what the streets were like durring the day on the Royal mile, and this is the best photo i have so far. It is other worldly. There are so many people. The blue banner is for the festival and all of the little polls down the road are for posters.


this is tyler as the happiest boy in the world. The green on his lips is from a Lime and Lagger. Yes, a beer flavored popsicle. He was giddy, and green.



giddy and green.

love, alex

The very first morning I was here, I hiked up to the top of Arthur's Seat to see what I could see. Here is looking north over the city at the Firth of Fourth. I didn't want any anyone to miss this view.

Our show has been officially running now for two days. The dress rehearsal on thursday was horrible. I was rather grave when I came home that afternoon. On Friday though, it was as if it had never happend; the show went great. I think we have all been itching for an audience. Our venue it small--no more than fifty seats--but the last two days we have had about 15 or 20 for each show, which makes it feel really cosy. The crowd has been responding to it very well, and I have bumped into a few individuals around the festival who saw it and loved it. We had three reviewers on the first night and one yesterday. Only one has been published but they gave us five stars! While this excites me a great deal, I was very confident in the show, and am not entirely surprized. The cast is doing a great job, and James has put together a great piece...even though I disagree with some of the ways he chose to direct it. The only thing I am really concerned about right now is my voice. I started to get a cold a couple of days ago, and my voice is getting very tired. I am downing a bunch of fluids and tea and lemons and Vitimins and whatever else I can find, but I am concerned that it doesn't get any worse or turn into pnumonia again. There is no fluid in my lungs, but I am more susceptable to have it swing that way having had it once. I don't go anywhere without my scarf and I've got a water bottle beside me right now.

I really love this place. I could see myself living here some day. I like it better than Oxford. I got in contact with Racheal Dunsmore and she is going to come to the show. I stopped by Gregory Tailor Kiltmaker and found my tarten. I ordered some fabric swatches as I have the choice between the Ancient, Modern, and the Muted colors. I am leaning toward the muted, but we shall see. It is going to cost 499 pounds to order the thing: quite the investment, but this is something that's really important to me. I will take some pictures of the tarten when I get them.

Cheers,
Tyler