Looking Back One Year On - Final Post

Well, it's now a year since Venus and Mars and Other Myths of Mr and Ms opened at the Edinburgh Fringe and I am about to head off there again (just as a punter this year) so it's high time I finished off this blog! The show went pretty well. The daily graft of flyering and giving out "I'm from Venus" and "I'm from Mars" badges brought us in reasonable audiences but we never quite sold out. The audiences generally seemed to enjoy the show; partners often nudging each other at the familiarity of it and people thanking us at the end as they left and saying how good it was. Usually there were plenty of laughs but occasionally there was a stoney-faced individual who didn't seem to get it at all. The critics, on the whole, were not impressed. I thought the combination of the humorous approach to applying the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus concept to characters from history and mythology and the genius use of novelty aprons as costumes were original enough but they seemed to want more, complaining that it didn't really say anything new. So we had a good run but we didn't achieve the 5 star reviews or sell out status that would have given us the credibility to take it on tour or do it again in Edinburgh for a second year. I would certainly like to do Edinburgh again some time though, having learned so much from this experience. Maybe next time it'll be as a solo comedy performer.