Did I say the script was "finished?" That's one of my little games. The script is never finished.

Well, maybe when the show opens.

So, I've got all the words arranged in the order I like. I've killed most of the typos. Now I have to figure out what I want to do, stage-wise, and what lo-tech effects I can do with lighting and sound.

Things I've done so far:
� Combined Julia and Reed into one character.
� Figured out which characters to "double" (one actor playing two characters)
� Basic SFX

When I originally conceived this show, it was going to be a multimedia presentation. The filmed bits were going to be filmed. The "static sequences" (the bits between the chapters) were going to be recorded with music. You can't do those sorts of things at the Fringe Festival, which is a good thing.

I like simple. I'm a firm believer in the idea that a design isn't finished when you've added everything you can add. It's finished when you've removed everything you can remove.

Finished the script last week, and was thoroughly sick this weekend.

The hardest part of doing a show yourself is the promotion. When I was studying theatre, smartass that I was, I would have raised an armed rebellion at the notion of a class on how to promote your show.

Then I did my first show in the real world, and nobody showed up. That's the worst feeling in the world--worse than being in a show of which you're embarrassed. At least with a show like that, you can tell your friends to not come see it.

So, promoting the show, which in this case begins before we've even started rehearsals. Signal has a hook, a fanbase for the original author (Shakespeare has that too). So I'm placing ads in the local SF conventions. Then, posters in comic book shops, etc. And maybe one out of a hundred, or several hundred people who hear about the show will come to see it.

At the Fringe itself, the best way to get people to come see your show is to stand outside the ultra-popular shows and hand out... no, not "hand out," force people to take postcards with your show info.

Hunting down another actor to play the Director. If he accepts, it'll take the character in a completely different direction that what I originally had in mind. That's a different but-also-great direction, mind you. Some directors like to control every aspect of a play, to know what each character wants, and to lead the actors towards that. And to be fair, a lot of actors want that, too.

In my opinion though, a motivated actor, one who is encouraged to explore, will come up with better ideas than the director, every time.