16 days until the Ottawa Fringe festival and above and beyond the fear and dread of lines and blocking. I’ve find hope. My cast and crew are pulling together and bringing it full tilt. Everyone is doing an amazing job and we’ve pulled together as a team. We had a really messy stumble through that could have put us all in a bad mood but then we took a break. Sometimes you need to know when to stop. But when we came back from dinner break and added in our live music thanks to the brilliant Kenny Hayes everything clicked. It was like magic. The actors were in the zone. They worked really hard and hit the lines and characters full on. The show started to come together with lots of grace and beauty. It's becoming something magic that I know I feel special to be part of.
In the beginning I referred to this as my show but now each person who has worked on this project has owned a piece of it and has added a part of themselves to it. I wrote the script but my team made it a show worthy of the fringe and a darkly beautiful epic fit for enjoyment by any audience.
With the fringe approaching at a rapid pace and the frantic dash for posters, handouts, and the spread of word of mouth the madness sets in. But with much hard work everything starts gelling together and a solid product worthy of the fringe emerges like life out of some sort of prehistoric swamp.
We are rising to the occasion and ready for fringe. This has been four delicious months in the making.
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