Buxton Festival Fringe Awards - 2008
Nominations and Winners. NB Winners are in bold
New writing:
- Clever Peter
- Something about nothing (Lab Monkey)
- Evacuees by Martin Beard
- ContreCoup by Ross Andrews
- Halfway (Vista Theatre Company)
- Lady in Bed (Weird Sisters)
- Saturday Boy (RuthEBlue Theatre)
- Whacker Murphy's Bad Buzz (Back of the Hand Theatre)
- Womb Man (RJ Arts)
Comedy:
Best show
- Clever Peter
- It is Rocket Science!
- Something about nothing
Best individual performer:
- Tam Hinton (The Man Who Said Too Much)
- Matt Pritchard (Lab Monkey)
- Helen Keen (It is Rocket Science!)
- Edward Eales White (Clever Peter)
- Andrew O'Neill (GOSH in the Barrel Room)
Dance:
Nomination and winner:
For Families:
- Evacuees by Martin Beard (The Young REC Drama Scool)
- Story of Jam (Chapel Youth Centre)
- Five go mad in Buxton - again! (Black Box Theatre Company)
- Pride and Prejudice (Act one Drama Studio)
Music:
Best Entry
- Are we there yet? (Dawn Foxall, Diana Sharp)
- Crazed and in love (Rebecca Lea and Tom Wilkinson)
- Katuš
- Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Music (Partita)
- Music for Oboe and Guitar (Marios Argiros and Dimitris Dekavallas)
- Opera Night (City of Manchester Opera)
- Sam Dunkley
- Songs from Life (Edward D'arcy Hatton)
- String Quartet Masterpieces (Quatuor Deconet)
- Summer Concert (High Peak Orchestra)
- Tideswell Male Voice Choir in Concert
- Un/Plugged: Amplified and Acoustic Trios (Expatrio)
- Underground Jazz Club
Best Performer
- Katuš
- Marios Argiros (Music for Oboe...)
- Dimitris Dekavallas (Music for oboe and Guitar)
- Margaret Fergusson (City of Manchester Opera)
- Mary Dainton (cello, Amaretti Chamber Orchestra (and High Peak Orchestra))
- Emma Souza Lima (Recital of piano music, by Joao Souza Lima)
- Sasha Johnson Manning & Holly Marland (Accordes)
- Edward D'arcy Hatton (Songs from life)
- Alison Bletcher (Summer Serenade)
Spoken Word
- Advice to Humanity (Mark Twain)
- In the Light of This (Mark Gwynne-Jones and the Psychicbread)
- Philip's Poetry and Piano (F Philip Holland)
Theatre
Best Production
- ContreCoup by Ross Andrews (Second Nature Theatre Company)
- Hamlet (1623 theatre company)
- Lady in Bed (The Weird Sisters)
- The Maids (Non Stop Cabaret Theatre Company)
- One Big Blow (RLT)
- Saturday Boy (RuthEBlue Theatre)
- Tape (Northern Outlet Theatre Company)
- The Tragedy of Richard III (Black Box Theatre Company)
- Trojan Woman (Eyewitness Theatre)
- Whacker Murphy's Bad Buzz (Back of the Hand Theatre)
- Womb Man (RJ Arts)
Best actor
- Hazel Earle (ContreCoup)
- George Telfer (Do You Still Throw Spears...)
- Phil Minns (Halfway)
- Jamie Brown (Hamlet)
- Alison Goldie (Lady in Bed)
- Tom Philips (The Maids)
- Andrew Travis (The Maids)
- Adam Urey (Now Breathe Out)
- Daniel Wallace (Saturday Boy)
- Ric Ward (Tape)
- Peter Hawkshaw (The Tragedy of Richard III)
- Nell Corrin (Trojan Women)
- Edwin Mullane (Whacker Murphy's Bad Buzz)
- Ricky Payne (Womb Man)
Best young actor
- Cara Hurst (Cracked)
- Melissa Ward (Cracked)
- Robert Shaw (Mercy)
- Sarah Coomer (Mercy)
- Dan Large (Our Country's Good)
Visual Arts
- Annual Art Exhibition (Burbage Art Group)
- Derbyshire Open 2008 (Buxton Museum & Art Gallery)
- Exhibition of Paintings (Alan Bailey)
- Great Dome Art Fair (Peak District Products)
Spirit of the Fringe:
- Chapel Youth Centre - The Story of Jam