EDINBURGH 2013: Guest Blog - Freyja From WUNDERKAMMER

So, we won a Herald Angel Award! In our first couple of weeks, we got a bunch of 4 star reviews, which was just dandy really. But then we started getting 5 stars, yippee!! And with one of those 5 star reviews came an award - a very big honour indeed. So we aRose Early on Saturday morning and wandered down to the Festival Theatre to receive the award, given to us by Rick Wakeman. I guess that makes us an Edinburgh success.

The other day, on our day off, I overheard two of my friends talking in the hallway of our apartment, the exchange went a little like this; "What did you do today?" "Oh, absolutely nothing. It was really nice. Well... I saw a show."

I thought it was a very apt representation of this festival. There are just so many shows to see. I've seen about 20 shows since being here. In any other three-week period, seeing that many shows would feel like quite an achievement, yet I know that I'm going to leave Edinburgh wishing I'd seen more, feeling as though I should have got out there and seen more.

I have seen some incredible shows, there are five other shows here made up of good friends of ours, people we went to school with, people who are former Circa ensemble members, people whose pozible campaigns we supported to get here. I've seen more familiar Aussie faces here than anywhere in the past few years.

It's quite surreal, sitting in the George Square garden in a little corner of astro-turf surrounded by Australian acrobats, my friends.

So, I've seen their shows. Top of my list being A Simple Space, Knee Deep and Briefs. Yeah, I'm biased because they're Aussies, but they all blew me away with their, respectively, innovation, beauty and hilarity.

Also worth mentioning are Flight or Fright, The Lords of Strut, The Soil, and The Pajama Men. Good shows.

I'm yet to see a show I didn't enjoy here, which is surprising when I remember just how many terrible shows I saw last time I was here.

Today, I'm attending an awards ceremony for The Total Theatre Awards. We've been nominated. Fingers crossed!

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