Chris you madlad, you actually did it
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Chris you madlad, you actually did it

It's Monday 28th July. It's one day after Durham Free Fringe finished. And it's actually worked. We put on show. And we got an audience. And a respectable audience size.

Honestly, you have no idea how much of a relief it is to have pulled this off. I have been stressing over this for pretty much the last eight months. The difference between this and my Durham Fringe work is that, this time round, the buck really did stop with me. There really was nobody to come to my rescue. It really was a case of guesswork over which of our plans were going to work - and I won't tell a lie, there were a lot of things that didn't work the way we wanted. There were long period of time in the run-up when I was convinced this was going to be a damp squib. We did manage to get venues on board and put together a programme and get publicity out, but with all events being free and unticketed, we had no idea what audiences we would get. It really was a case of turn up and hope other people do.

But, my God, it worked. Varied from show to show, but for the 7.30 comedy shows some turnouts beyond my wildest dreams. So thank you so much to everybody who made this work. Thanks to Adil my co-organiser, our visiting artists Kathrine, Caitriona, Ben, Dan, Raymond and Jennifer, and everybody in the audience who gave our crazy gamble a chance.

The cat's already out of the bag: we intend to do this again next year. We do have lessons to learn from this one, and any feedback you have will be welcome, be it what we could do better or what direction you want us to go in. But right now, I need to sleep for a month.

We now have an actual website, so you can follow that for updates instead of reading call-outs on this is. In the meantime, here's a picture of the first It's Not Cluedo to take place in Durham.

My crowd in The Holy GrAle.

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