A what?  Yes, an improv symposium.  The Maydays are holding a geek-out event for all the impro(v) shows in Edinburgh this year.  We have some rather exciting names there such as Baby Wants Candy, Showstopper and Mike McShane off the tele.  We’ll wax lyrical about making stuff up, swap numbers and eat cake.  We’ve been...

Hi – Katy here.  We’ve been waiting tensely for reviews since the very first preview and finally on show day 11 we have one!  And happily, it’s a four-star goodun.  Edinburgh Spotlight think we’re ‘on a par with Paul Merton’ which is great.  We have a previous accolade that says we can ‘hold our own...

Rosie Wilby – The Further Science Of Sex   By Jason Blackwater That’s right I’m catching up! This may be brief in one sense but informative in an entirely different one. the sort of informative that doesn’t necessarily contain any, you know, information. We’re into the fringe proper which is why the ol’ blogging has...

Rebecca and Heather clocked up nearly half a day of queuing between them today. In fact if they were girl guides they would now have a neat triangular badge with a picture of stick people standing in a line to sew onto their starched blue uniform. If queuing was an act of war, they would...

By Jason Blackwater Isabel Hertaeg – La Petit Mort The Fringe is officially under way. The first proper day of the run and already I’m behind. Hopefully I’ll be doing 2 blogs today with two show clips to catch up but this is me we’re talking about! I never thought old age would creep up...

Today we chased Simon Callow down the street so we could ask him to be in our show. He very politely told us ‘no’ but we still felt slightly proud we had even tried. I saw him first and we stopped to ‘pretend’ we were chatting whilst Katy looked him up on her iphone (the...

One show down and we had an unexpected bonus – good-sized audience! At 5pm we had 3 people booked and a resignation to performing to a teeny audience as our voices echoed around the auditorium. By the time we went on, we had around 30, including the oldest longform-loving Yorkshireman we’ve ever met (he’s up...

So it’s the afternoon after the lunchtime after the morning after the night before and we’re one show down. A good show with a lot of promising moments. The songs were great and here’s a fabulous example of one where big sister, Rebecca, thinks everything she has should be bigger than what little sister, Katy...

Today’s moral of the story is this: don’t assume you have a technician. Not even a ghost of one. This morning we’re sorting out a voiceover for the start of the show. We weren’t planning on doing it quite like this but it turns out we won’t have any sort of techie so we need...

by Jason Blackwater The train and coach tickets are bought, the accomodation is prepared for our August arrival and The Maydays are on their way to Edinburgh for a month. I’m here to introduce you to The Maydays’ Edinburgh experience blog where you’ll get all the latest up-to-the-minute news, reviews, facts, figures, pics, vids, and...