Sunday's performance in Devon has been cancelled, also due to poor ticket sales. The venue tried really hard, but clearly a Christmas show at Christmas just doesn't sell.
I can't get angry about this; I mean - the shows aren't even selling in my hometown, ticket sales for the first performance currently stand at 1. What is the point in this? Very close to cancelling the Cambridge performances too, thus pretty much just cancelling the whole run. Paul Richards Will Make You Festive was a nice idea, but one that just didn't work out. I'll put it down to be an expensive mistake and try a new direction; one that doesn't involve me spending days and days writing and rehearsing a show only for nobody to want to see it.
I would say releasing things online is a safer option but the advent calendar series is only getting 5 hits a day. Even the film, the film which we were so proud of, didn't hit 50 views. We can't even give this stuff away. There's no point. No point at at all to any of this.
Had a bit of a rant on Facebook about it all, because that's what we do in this day and age. Lots of people telling to 'keep going' which is very sweet of them to care, but at the same time I'm not sure which direction I'm supposed to be going in. I've been looking up stand-up venues around the UK but they just look terrifying; full of people actually expecting jokes and puns and things that are in your face. Not storytelling comedy, which is very different. Yet, what I do clearly doesn't fit in to the theatre scene either as tickets just don't sell. I don't actually think this is about marketing; I think it's about the project. Do I change my act?
Or, of course, I could just get a proper job.
Recorded the Christmas novella; all 65 minutes of it, and am putting it on Bandcamp now. Not sure if anybody will be interested in the audio book version but to be honest, I'm losing my mind a bit and it was just something to fill a couple hours of the day with.
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