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Please join us in thanking the kindred spirits and angels in Edinburgh!
Monday this week we learned the workshop where our set was being built is inaccessible on weekends. Out get-in and tech rehearsals at Venue 29, the Vault, is at 2 pm on SUNDAY 5 August. From having all our costs covered we were now faced with having to rent a van for a whole weekend, removing the set Friday, storing the set somewhere and then moving it to the venue on Sunday. I found this out this past Monday--7 days to go before our opening night, the start of Fringe preview week. Knowing we would have very little luck securing a van at all and that we probably couldn't afford it anyway, we posted on Scot-Nits (the god-send web forum for theatre folk, run by Scottie Anderson of Queen Margaret University) asking if someone having rented a van and coming to Edinburgh would be willing to go halves on the fees with us. Instead, I almost immediately had a reply from Neville Kilkenney, who owns a events construction business out in East Lothian, offering us his company's van for the whole weekend, insurance and all taken care of, for FREE, and just to top up the diesel. YAY!
One of our actors, Stuart Nicoll, and our playwright Heather went out Friday morning to fetch it, absolutely no trouble...EXCEPT. On arriving at the workshop to put the set in, we discovered the front right tire was flat! There'd been no sign anything was wrong (Neville had even checked for us that morning!). And then, from the garage across the street appears a fellow saying to go in and ask for Jamie. (??) James Allan Clutch Centre, Windsor Street Lane, fixed it for us then and there. Matt Cooper stepped up and took the van back to East Lothian, braving the elements to cycle back towards town!
Thanks to Scottie, Neville, Jamie and Matt, we will have a set, and we will have a show! It's Take a Bite, at the Vault, Paradise Green, every night--but not 13 or 20!--at 11:35 pm, and thanks to these fanatastic people it's going to be amazing! Thank you all so much guys!
Fundraiser Gig At The Wee Red Bar
THURSDAY NIGHT (7 June 2007): Come along to our fantastic fundraiser gig at the Wee Red Bar (Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place) for some great punk and drum n bass music - provided by Edinburgh's own Dud-Load and Pangea Nation resident DJs Special Ed and Professor Fresh. 8pm - late. Super cheap drinks - bottles of beer start from just £1.20! Tickets cost £5 in advance, £6 on the door. Proceeds from this gig will go directly towards funding the production and staging of Take A Bite so bring your friends and join the party!
The Smallest Theatre in Edinburgh?
Take A Bite will be playing at the Vault this august - read about this new Fringe venue here
Meadows Funrun
WE DID IT!
The weather was damp and misty, but we braved the elements, nighties and all! Our fundraising run of 25 March was a big success, and everyone we met on the Meadows that morning was impressed (and bemused) by our dedication...
Stay tuned for our next event!!
Clamouring for attention!
Our first public fundraiser is almost upon us!
25 March 2007, starting at 11 am, starting on the west side of the Meadows, watch as the Take a Bite gang and their loyal cohorts march round the park in appropriate attire. Appropriate to the play that is! Yes, ladies in their sleepwear! mCome see and laugh! And if you'd like to support the madness, just visit our Sponsors page to donate. Watch here for the photographic evidence we did it!
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