Best Comedy Award nominees - Scottish Falsetto Socks

Ha-hey! We're nominees for Best Comedy in the Awards. Which awards, you ask? Only the Greater Manchester Fringe Awards!

The Awards took place back on August 3rd and, in the whirlwind of Edinburgh, we slightly missed it. So it's only today that we realised we were one of the five nominees for Best Comedy. Thanks Manchester, we're honoured and flattered.

And that was for an Edinburgh Preview show, by the way. The finished version of the show that we're doing every night this month knocks spots off that show. We can only hold our breath waiting for more nominations.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre ...And So Am I is at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014, July 30 - Aug 25 Gilded Balloon, 10.30pm 

GREATER MANCHESTER AWARDS AND WRAP PARTY 2014: ALBERT SQUARE CHOPHOUSE

BEST NEWCOMER: 
Happy Birthday Without You, Paper Mash Theatre at Joshua Brooks, Manchester

Nominated:

Equal Partners - troublehouse theatre at The King’s Arms, Salford

Hacienda Tales - LIAC Concepts at Joshua Brooks, Manchester

Life’s A Gatecrash - PACT Productions at The King’s Arms, Salford

BEST COMEDY: 
Back Door - Off Off Off Broadway at The King’s Arms

Nominated:

James Acaster - Gag Reflex at The King’s Arms, Salford

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - Kev Sutherland at Taurus Bar, Manchester

Sinful - Carly Tarett at The Castle Hotel, Manchester

Uppity - Misty Chance and Terry Gold at Taurus Bar, Manchester

Lou Lowe

MOST INNOVATIVE USE OF SPACE: 
Lulo’s Shitting in Narnia - Lou Lowe performed in a campervan 

Nominated: The Dumb Waiter - performed in the newly opened Lucy Davis Vaults at the King’s Arms, Salford

BEST NEW WRITING: 
Len Johnson Fighter by Colin Connor - King’s Arms

Nominated: 

An Extraordinary Light by Rob Johnston - Breathe Out Theatre at Taurus Bar, Salford

Hacienda Tales by Philip Stuchberry and Sophie Tickle - LIAC Concepts at Joshua Brooks, Manchester

Hardwired by John FK Hoyle - JHC Productions at The Swan Inn, Dobcross

Life Cycle by Adam Sunderland - Sticks Theatre at The Swan Inn, Dobcross

Would You Change? by Rylan Cavell - Bewilderbeastly Productions at Taurus Bar

Jarreau Benjamin (Len Johnson)

BEST SPOKEN WORD: 
JB Barrington - Woodchip Anaglypta and Nicotined Artex Ceilings at The King’s Arms, Salford

Nominated:

Carol Robson, Finding Me, Take Me As I Am - Taurus Bar, Manchester

M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A. by Lena Kitsopoulou, performed by Aliki Chapple - The Castle Hotel, Manchester

Money is as Innocent as the Gun - Bar 21, Manchester

BEST REVIVAL OR INTERPRETATION: 
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, Ransack Theatre, at The King’s Arms, Salford

Nominated:

Be My Baby by Amanda Whittington, performed by Asphalt Roses, at The King’s Arms, Salford

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness, performed by Yer Maun Productions at Joshua Brooks, Manchester

FASTEST SELLING SHOW: 
The Singular Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, The Swan Inn, Dobcross

Misty Chance (Uppity)

SPIRIT OF THE FRINGE: 
Uppity - Misty Chance and Terry Gold at Taurus Bar, Manchester

Nominated: 

Life’s A Gatecrash - PACT Productions at The King’s Arms, Salford

Meet The Real Maggie Thatcher - Gerundagula at The Swan Inn, Dobcross

The Many Mishaps of Mr Vinegar - Two Boards and a Passion at The Swan Inn, Dobcross

Greater Manchester Fringe 2014 was sponsored by Crabbie's alcoholic ginger beer, Salford City Council, Manchester City Council and Studio Salford.

If you want to stage a show at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival in July 2015 email gmfringe@gmail.com

More details: www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk

Salford Council want Greater Manchester Fringe expansion in Salford: 
SALFORD ONLINE ARTICLE

More photographs by Elspeth Moore: 
http://p-b-e.smugmug.com/Parties/Mcr-Fringe-Wrap-Party-2014/i-GD8M5RQ

Actress Cátia Soeiro Perry, winner of Best Spoken Word JB Barrington, 
Dave Smith (Crabbie's) and actress and comedian Jen Williams. 
Photographer Elspeth Moore

Posted by Manchester Fringe at 03:12