- An actor went viral for her teary tweet about only one person attending her play.
- The post generated thousands of comments of sympathy and people sharing similar tales.
An actor who went viral for a tearful social media post about her play being attended by only one person went on to sell out her next show, a report says.
Georgie Grier posted a photo of herself crying on Thursday about the meager crowd at her one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
"There was one person in my audience today when I performed my one-woman play, 'Sunsets' at #edfringe. It's fine, isn't it? It's fine …?" she wrote on Twitter.
Her tweet went viral, with over 11 million views at the time of writing, and thousands of comments of support. Several performers and public figures weighed in to share their own similarly embarrassing tales.
The venue where she is performing in Edinburgh said that her Friday afternoon show had sold out, according to The Guardian.
The play, which Grier both wrote and stars in, is billed as being "a one woman play about happily ever after."
She later said it had been a "whirlwind 24 hours" and said that the reaction to her tweet had "lifted my spirits."
"When I posted, I was hoping for a few messages of support or advice from fellow Fringe acts, however I had no idea how much it would resonate with people," she said, per The Guardian.
"There are ups and downs every day (every hour) at the Fringe but ultimately I know I'm lucky to be performing here."
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is one of the world's biggest concentrations of shows, with more than 3,000 shows running over three weeks.
Many shows are by amateur and unknown artists, and the struggle to attract an audience is intense — many other shows are also likely to have vanishingly small audiences on some nights.
The single audience member for "Sunsets" Thursday show was actor Sophie Craig. She said she spoke to Grier beforehand on Instagram, where they struck a deal to attend each other's shows. Without that, Grier would likely have had no audience at all.
Craig told The Guardian that Grier "gave it everything" and that her performance "wasn't any different to how she would be if she was performing to a full house."
"It's just so incredibly brave. Bringing a show up to the Fringe on your own, especially as a female and a new writer, is incredibly hard and she just smashed it," she said.