Joz Norris -a likable lad

The Edinburgh Fringe can be a funny old time for performers. It represents the culmination of a year’s hard work writing and rehearsing a show. Artists will have invested a huge amount both financially and emotionally and the gruelling slog of bringing the show to the public, while exhilerating and hugely rewarding, can be a big challenge too.

It’s easy to get to the end of August and feel like the experience has taken its toll on your mental health just a little bit. So here, culled from a few years of doing the Fringe, are my Top 5 tips on things no Fringe performer should be without. You’re going to find yourself in a few emotional scrapes, and the following is a list of equipment that you’re absolutely, 100%, going to need in order to get through it all without a hefty emotional scar…