Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Pick-of-Fringe Awards!
Most overall votes / FAVOURITE MUSICAL: Z-Day: Anthem for the Post-Zombie Apocalypse (Bring Back Pluto Productions)
2nd most overall votes / FAVOURITE COMEDY: Die Roten Punkte: Kunst Rock (Art Rock)
3rd most overall votes / FAVOURITE COMEDY: Antoine Feval (Chris Gibbs)
FAVOURITE SOLO SHOW: Lucky 9 (TJ Dawe)
FAVOURITE DRAMA: Thank You My Love, Goodbye (Creative Alliance)
FAVOURITE PHYSICAL THEATRE: 7 (x1) Samurai (David Gaines)
FAVOURITE SHOW FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES: Pinocchio (Story Theatre Company)
FAVOURITE SPOKEN WORD: The Genghis Khan Guide to Etiquette (Rob Gee)
INNOVATION AWARD: Small Town: A Pickup Musical (Theatre SKAM)
And special thanks to Chris Gibbs, our “Fringe Bean-a-factor,” for his special benefit performance of “Gibberish” at Lanham Court Theatre! Proceeds raised will benefit Intrepid Theatre, producers of the Victoria Fringe.
How the voting system worked: This year the audience was asked to place a bean in a tin after a show to tell us which shows they enjoyed. They could vote for every show they liked. The artists selected a category in which they wished to be nominated. At the end of the festival, we weighed the cans for each show, making adjustments for the size of venue, and awarded the prizes in the corresponding categories. The three shows with the most votes won prizes regardless of category, so this year there were two “Best Comedy” awards.
Yes, we heard tell of “bean stuffing” and sometimes people forgot to put a bean in for a show they liked – but the level of participation went up from about 100-150 ballots submitted each year (not a true cross-section of the audience) to nearly 20 kilos of beans! (Chili cook-off, anyone?)
