Since I last blogged, I've performed 'The Professor Vyle Show' at Wolverhampton College in front of an audience of nine. I was keen to do this performance as the age range of the group was not an age range that I had invited to my private view so it was very useful for feed back purposes to see what an audience of 18 year olds would make of it. The comments were really positive. My favourite quotes from the evaluations were, "quite the strangest show I've ever seen!" and "I'd consider watching it again!". The group were art students who are using the show as part of a project to design a programme cover etc for a theatre event. They drew and photographed the booth, the puppets and me in costume. I was very impressed by the drawings they were doing as I peeked over their shoulders.

I also went to Cardigan to do Word Up at the cellar bar. What a fantastic welcome. There were about 40 people in the audience. I did strip poetry followed by a cut down version of 'The Professor Vyle Show' as the booth wouldn't fit. I used the scarecrows that I'd made to hang the costumes on. The show seemed to work although I wish I could have used all of the props. I was knackered afterwards. I got a fantastic reveiw too! Have a look at it www.wordupcardigan.blogspot.com.

Sue Hamblen was a wonderful host and it was good to see some of the people I'd met last time I was there and meet new ones.

Last night I did my gig at the City Bar. I promoted it via the Wolverhampton Libraries events flyer and by leafleting City Voices. There were 35 people in the audience and the response was very positive. It does seem that 40 is an average audience for spoken word events. I also got another couple of vague gig offers that might or might not come off. I was particularly pleased that in ran through at 55 minutes which means that I've got the adrenalin a bit more under control than I had initially, perhaps.

For me the best thing about the evening was that I was able to do the performance for free but by passing a bottle round I could still cover my expenses and then some. I do like the idea of basing a show on Punch and Judy and then using the traditional way of putting it on for anybody and everybody regardless of their income. I know that wouldn't be possible to do everywhere but where I can I'd like to keep doing this.

I think I need to chase gig offers up; I don't like doing that because it feels like I'm being pushy and for all I know the people might have been drunk when them made the offer LOL. At the preview I had three gig offers and one workshop offer. Only one of these has actually been booked.

Any road up, that brings my total audience to ... 125!!! Target left 1,875.