I remembered to close the shutters as well as the curtains last night so I’m not woken by the daylight this morning. Instead I come round in my own time. For a while I lie in the gloom drifting in and out of a dream in which I’m the guest of a Paris Hilton type ...

I’m nervous today because I’m already thinking that perhaps yesterday was a fluke and perhaps I’m not a brilliant King at all, just an adequate Duke. The show goes well again however and tonight it’s nearly full! I want to go out and celebrate a bit but I feel it’s still to early. Plus I’m ...

Wake feeling inexplicably enthusiastic about the show again. I’m always amazed by how a new day can dissipate anxiety like that. Unless I’ve murdered someone the night before of course in which case I usually need something a little stronger for anxiety dissipation. After another afternoon of feverish laptop action (fixing video glitches that is, ...

My very first Edinburgh show is tonight at 9:20pm in The Cavern at The Pleasance. I’ve got so much to do there isn’t time to consider how terrified I am that it will be rotten. I sit and tinker with the show’s many video elements on my computer and my brother Dave agrees to head ...

It’s my technical rehearsal today. 4 hours of demented setting up of the projector, screen and props I use for my show. Tomorrow we’ll have only 10 minutes to set up after the previous act so we need to be slick. This part isn’t enjoyable. All the time we thought we’d have to go through ...