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The Everything Theatre Fringe Theatre Awards, or Etties for brief, are merely our enjoyable spherical up of the previous 12 months. Previously, come the tip of the 12 months we’ve requested our reviewers to choose some highlights which we might publish as a spherical up of the perfect of the 12 months. But in 2022 we determined we should always do issues a bit of otherwise. And that led us to the Etties.
Obviously we don’t have a crew of assessors to go and watch each present, so we aren’t going to fake these are something greater than a enjoyable strategy to spotlight a number of the reveals our crew have beloved up to now 12 months. The shortlists have been put collectively by trying again at our 4- and 5-star evaluations, after which with the assistance of a few of our reviewers, whittling them right down to a shortlist. It’s not probably the most scientific strategy however what awards ever are?
We’ll be asserting the winners on Wednesday 18 January as a part of our Runn Radio present that night.
The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much
Omnibus Theatre, March 2022
I can’t bear in mind the final time I got here out of the theatre desirous to guide to see the identical present once more.
Dave Bushe
Project Dictator
New Diorama Theatre, April 2022
Project Dictator was outrageously energetic and terrifyingly audience-inclusive. Given the place to begin of speaking to artists who stay below oppressive regimes, it was each worryingly hilarious and critically worrying.
Dean Wood
Qrumpet
Camden People’s Theatre, April 2022
Qrumpet attracts deeply from the concepts of Twentieth-century absurdism – at instances feeling like an Ionesco for the trendy day – and applies them to the weirdest scientific theories of our time
Matt Aldridge
Experiment Human
Cockpit Theatre, July 2022
Experiment Human is a particularly nicely made, daring, distinctive, surreal comedy that explores the issues that make us human, and what makes us comfortable.
Aaron-Lee Eyles
Crone
The Hope Theatre, August 2022
The tone is ready nearly earlier than the primary sentence is accomplished, leaving us laughing on the absurdity of all of it.
Rob Warren
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story
The Pleasance, November 2022
Oh Linus, you extraordinary beast you. This is an impressive piece of labor – whacky, wayward and completely distinctive. If Diana is trying down now I’m sure she’ll be becoming a member of within the enjoyable!
Mary Pollard
Winners will probably be introduced on 18 January.