Diary of a Black Woman At Edinburgh Fringe — Entry #25

I’m an American Black woman performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland for the first time

Photo by Fidel Fernando on Unsplash

Performer’s Log — Stardate 08232025.01

Performance 22 of 23

My penultimate show. Second to last performance. Today’s show was incredible. My largest audience to date. 36 people. My theater only seats 40. 4 more audience members and it would be SOLD OUT. Honestly it looked and felt like a sold out audience. It was incredible to walk out from behind the curtain and see all that amazing support and feel the love. Like HOLY SH*T where did all these people come from??

Two audience members were people that I “flyered” to the week before. I put flyered in quotes because it wasn’t the typical flyering. As you all know if you’ve been reading my other diary entries, I don’t like flyering and so I don’t do it. But what happened is I was walking out of the venue with my man and looked over and saw a woman with beautiful white hair. It reminded me of my man’s mom actually. In that moment I got Divine communication, a little nudge, to go speak to her.

My man’s mom had been getting her hair dyed for years and then suddenly decided to stop and when she did her actual hair color was more beautiful…