the day after

post-festival blues won't kick in until next week probably, but it is such an odd feeling to have had an intense run of days come to a screeching halt. The Festival boards and banners are already down, the marquees are at ground level already, and the visual arts is slowly coming out of the cathedral. By tomorrow it will look as if there wasn't a festival at all, and we start the whole process of informing people about the Festival again. 360 days until we start next year's...
The team are all in, as are most of the runners. We're trying to sort through tickets numbers and box office income, collate critical feedback and artist comments, and try to make sense of it all...