Druid theatre company has won a prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award for its production of The Last Return by Irish writer Sonya Kelly at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
News of the Scotsman Fringe First Award for The Last Return follows rave reviews, including five-star ratings from What’s On Stage, The Arts Desk and The Wee Review, and praise such as “pitch-black comic mayhem” from The Guardian and “wonderful” from The New York Times. Designed to encourage performers to bring new work to Edinburgh in the spirit of adventure and experiment, the Fringe Firsts are internationally recognised and are the most prestigious theatre awards at the Fringe, this week returning after two years of lockdown.
Joyce McMillan, chairwoman of the judging panel and the Scotsman’s chief theatre critic, said about The Last Return: “Sonya Kelly’s gorgeously stylish new 90-minute play for Druid Theatre is set in the queue for returned tickets at a posh European opera house and is in some ways fairly predictable thin-veneer-of-civilisation stuff, speculating on how easily even the quest for solace through art can escalate towards aggression and violence.
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