This book shares eleven years experience of producing shows at the Fringe for the price of two cafe lattes 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. Press quotes about the book so far: "wonderfully illuminating and extremely funny" - Festival Previews
- ISBN10 1471088324
- ISBN13 9781471088322
- Publish Date 10 May 2012 (first published 10 March 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 September 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 152
- Language English