Day 5 - Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Making A Family-Friendly Puppetry Show (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Today's show was brilliant and I'm very proud of everyone involved for pulling it out of the bag...or should I say, the box. We had to dig deep after a long few days of getting acclimatised to Edinburgh and the new space. This was definitely fired up by a wonderful re-writing of the beginning of the show by Lisa, Max and Liz - which made me sad because I didn't write it! It's very good, and, as is the EmptyBox way, very clever. Thank you Max, Liz and Lisa!

Dan, our producer, has been rushing around making sure everyone knows about our show. Today he and Naomi went to "Meet the Press" at Fringe Central - apparently a number of the press representitives (and other companies!) were interested in meeting Norman, and were keen to know more about the show and the possibility of attending.  Hopefully some of them will come along, and will love the show as much as we do.

A good day's flyering on the mile with Norman. Lots of wonderful and weird people wanting their picture with the star of the show! Then some exit flyering at Underbelly. We're in flyer wars with Charlie and Lola - the goliath to our David - but that's the way we like it: Epic. We're the underdog, but Norman Shadowboxer's packing a slingshot - so watch out, giants of Children's Entertainment!

Talking to Leof Kingsford-Smith of "Mission of Flowers" (another show at C-Aquila) and he said about promoting a show: "ye just gotta get out there...it's hard but ye just gotta do it." He said it straight and that's just it. It's gonna be tough but when we have our puppet and hero Norman out there we're gonna get audiences in.

Excitingly, we also had a child reviewer for Primary Times come in to see our show, so we're looking forward to seeing what they say! Hopefully they'll provide us with a few juicy quotes to stick to our flyers...

Excited about tomorrow because we have a good number of people booked in, and a photographer coming to snap some nice shots of Norman. Then a few Sunday night pints! And next week we're going to start going to watch some THEATRE! Looking forward to seeing Clever Peter, Les Enfants Terribles, and Frantic Assembly next week. Bigs fans of all.

Happy that we've started to get our show to the top standard we're used to, it's gonna get better and better the more we do it!

- Ronan