Kate Copstick’s Diary: Size doesn’t matter

I was chatting with Simon Munnery (right)about small audiences – not that he is an expert on that. He told me Eugene Cheese of the Chuckle Club would cancel if there were fewer than 30 in the audience. Unbelievable now. It has been something of a slow start to the Fringe but comic types, if you have not brought a show to Edinburgh that you would be glad to perform to a turd in a bucket and Mrs McGinty’s cat then you have brought the wrong show. I spoke to Simon Morley of Puppetry Of The Penis, who is keeping it in his pants for a show at Monkey Barrel, and he is finding it “humbling” playing to small audiences and doing the bucket thing. But playing he is. So enough with the cancelling because there were only two in the room and the lighting wasn’t right. I have seen Joey Page with two of us in the room and it was a blast. Phil Nichol played to only a handful when I saw it and it was mindblowing. The show must go on.