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Dateline: 3rd August, 2008 News from the Midlands
New group scoops Buxton best production awardNon Stop Cabaret Theatre Company won best production award at this year's Buxton Festival Fringe for their version of Jean Genet's The Maids. The company is a newly performed performance group whose focus is on experimental devised theatre and reworking of contemporary and classic texts. The Maids, which ran at the Pauper's Pit, was one of ten shows shortlisted for best production. Non Stop Cabaret's Tom Phillips and Andrew Travis were nominated for best actor. The award went to Ricky Payne for Womb Man. Ross Andrews' ContreCoup won the new writing award, best individual performer was Helen Keen for It Is Rocket Science!, Black Box Theatre Company took the accolade for families with Five Go Mad in Buxton - Again! and a special Spirit of the Fringe award was presented to Chapel Youth Centre Jam Nite for its community work with young people and overall support for the Fringe. Festival Fringe chair John Wilson, who retires from the role in the autumn, hailed it as "my best ever fringe and a wonderful fringe to bow out on". The 2008 Fringe featured 126 entries with 448 performances. No fewer than 46 entries were examples of new writing.
Wide audiences for Nottingham showsFive Nottingham Playhouse productions have either been on tour or are to go on the road before the end of the year. On the Waterfront, directed by Steven Berkoff, the story of a daring New York dockworker who takes a stand against the mob, is bound for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The UK premiere of the play adapted from his own screenplay by Budd Schulberg (with Stan Silverman) is produced in conjunction with East Productions and runs at the Pleasance Grand until Monday, August 25th. Returning to the Playhouse before touring in the autumn is All Quiet on the Western Front. James Alexandrou, best known as Martin Fowler in EastEnders, leads the cast in an account of the endurance of young German soldiers in the trenches during World War I. Adapted by Robin Kingsland and directed by Giles Croft, it runs in Nottingham from October 9th to 18th before touring to the Kings Theatre, Edinburgh from October 28th to November 1st; the Churchill Theatre, Bromley from November 4th to 8th; and the Grand Theatre, Blackpool from November 11th to 15th. Seamus Heaney's adaptation from Sophocles' Antigone, The Burial at Thebes was rapturously received at two of America's biggest arts festivals this summer and is expected to tour internationally in 2010. And The Whale's Tooth children's show has completed a run at London's Unicorn Theatre while multi-media show Gob Squad's Kitchen has just finished playing London's Soho Theatre.
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