Award win is first time lucky for university company
Published Date:
23 August 2008
A STUDENT company from Edinburgh University is to take to the New York stage after winning a top Fringe award.
Eight, by the Edinburgh University Theatre Company, won the Carol Tambor Award, which takes a Fringe show to the Under the Radar festival in New York with all expenses paid.
The show consists of eight 15-minute monologues, each performed by a different actor. The audience coming into the show votes to choose which four characters' stories they want to see performed that day.
The stories range from a struggling single mother who takes a job preparing a wealthy Edinburgh woman's Christmas, to a gay man from London's art cognoscenti coming to terms with his lover's suicide.
Writer and director Ella Hickson said: "This is the first show I have ever written. I can't quite believe it at all."
The Tailor of Inverness, the story of a Scottish actor, Matthew Zajac, as he unravels the stories told by his Polish immigrant father, won the inaugural Holden Street Theatres Award to take a show to the Adelaide Fringe.
The full article contains 186 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
22 August 2008 9:47 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
