It’s the biggest performing arts festival in the world, with a history of launching careers – if you can win the (sometimes empty) room.
comedian Jenny Tian is doing two shows almost every day this month, but doesn’t expect to make a cent. Instead, she’s paid around $6000 for the pleasure of performing and is slowly recouping costs by perfecting her “bucket speech” – in which she asks people to throw money in a bucket after performing in a Scottish pub.
Although that did come after a decade of punishment. “ a prohibitively expensive enterprise and putting on a show there is closer to gambling than to acting,” they wrote inlast week. Gadsby recalled sleeping in a closet during their first festival and performing to fewer than 100 people across the full run., remembers performing at a venue where “if they didn’t like you, they’d throw pint glasses at your head”.So, is it all worth the effort? It depends on who you talk to .
Both comedians – who see the festival as an exciting opportunity to get a foot in the UK – are so grateful for the experience, though, and particularly thankful they didn’t have to personally take on the financial risk. Their management is paying for flights, accommodation, venue hire and marketing for a handful of comedians – an investment in exporting their talent overseas.
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