"ThreeWeeks Editor Awards

The Results Are In!

ThreeWeeks exists to discover and champion cultural innovation and excellence at the Edinburgh Festival, and that's exactly what these new awards are about. Taking a lead from our team of 75 reviewers, and from other contacts at the Edinburgh Festival, the ThreeWeeks editors - Chris, Caro, Sam and Christabel - have been investigating and experiencing those shows, events and initiatives at the Festival which our leads were most highly rating.

From that, each week we have compiled a list of those events that we felt deserve particular recognition for innovation and / or excellence, and tonight, from that list, we have produced a top ten. These are ten shows, events or initiatives which we feel helped make the 2005 Edinburgh Festival something special, and which we feel should be celebrated for that.

The winners of the 2005 Editors' Awards are as follows:

5. Kandinsky for 'Enola'
We have always been huge champions of new writing at the Edinburgh Festival, and strongly believe that new plays form one of the most important strands of the Fringe. We are not alone in this passion of course, with the Scotsman also championing new writing through their Fringe First programme. However, we do feel that the number of Traverse and Assembly shows that appear on the Fringe First shortlists offer the wider public a false view new playwriting at the Festival. The fact is there are genius new plays being premiered at all venues, and not just those larger two. This is the new play we would particularly like to mention, staged at the Underbelly, and showcasing the talent of a promising new writing voice. It was a well crafted and well characterised piece of theatre that excited several members of the ThreeWeeks team."

From www.threeweeks.co.uk.