How to Produce, Perform and Write an Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Show: Second Edition: Complete guide of how to write, perform and produce a comedy or theatre show at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. - Softcover

Fox, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1466438770 ISBN 13: 9781466438774

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

About the book This book shares eleven years experience of producing shows at the Fringe for the price of two cafe lattea and a muffin, without the social awkwardness of having to sit with the author in a coffee shop. This guide is aimed at performers interested in producing their first shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. Highlighting the author's personal experiences of half-full houses, flat mates gone bad, hostel horror stories, campsite calamities, and general comedy cock-ups. Although the author's background is in producing and performing stand-up comedy, the principles of venue hire, promotion and publicity are the same for shows of other genres, such as sketch comedy, cabaret and theatre shows, as are the problems of managing large groups of performers. The section on how to write shows details the author's approach to writing his shows as opposed to being a general how to write comedy guide. Unofficial about the book As well as the usual advice on booking venues and ordering flyers, what I've tried to do is give my personal experiences of the Fringe, so for most of the pieces of advice there is a story about how I ended up doing stuff that way. The final section of the book is a collection of first-hand war stories from the Fringe which most of the people who have read them have laughed at. There are a couple of shall we say incidents involving assaults with deadly weapons, mental break downs, general flat mate gone bad stories and heart attacks which don't generally raise a laugh but they all happened and made the experiences much more interesting. I've used pseudonyms in some cases or omitted names entirely because you might well have been gigging with the people involved recently. I've also included my approach to writing two shows I did at the Fringe to give you an idea of working practices and how I put shows together. Hopefully the reader will be able to take something away from my experiences. The book will hopefully be updated as I go along. If you bough

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1466438770
• ISBN 13: 9781466438774
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Frieze Ashley