I haven't done street performances for donkeys. I do keep thinking I should come up with a new street act and test it by busking it for the good people of Belfast. It would be a good way of testing the material and refines it pretty fast.
Anyhow, my first street performance was as a double act. Probably about the same time as you were doing it, Chance. I was about 17 so it was 14 or so years ago.
We put an act together at home and at school and took it to the streets in the weekend. It had stilts, unicycling, magic, juggling and diablos. It was pretty haphazard. I'd written a corny script for the diablos with a pun for each trick.
We had quite a nice routine for stilts and unicycle. Something to do with bullfighting....
The main thing I remember about the first time out was that instead of setting up a stage and gathering a crowd. We had decided the best way to start the act would be for me to unicycle around Belfast with a plastic fish in my hand and for my double act partner to chase me shouting that I had stolen his mackerel. Which wasn't very practical but was funny to us at least!
George
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