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The Buxton Fringe held their Awards Ceremony for the 30th Fringe Festival yesterday with all the best shows from the last few weeks getting a recognition.

We were very pleased to receive two award nominations for our current production, Play On Words. Michael and Meriel were both nominated for Best Actor, Meriel for the part of Jen and Michael presumably for the three parts of Fred, Eddie and Jonnie (as we play all three this year!)

More special than this however, was an extra award made to Three's Company for Special Contribution to the Buxton Fringe - aka the Fringe 30 Award. This was in recognition of our many productions (as well as venue services) over the last seven years. Having grown up in Buxton, having seen many of our first shows and having learnt much of what we know from working on the Buxton Fringe, this award means an awful lot to us.

We're already planning Buxton Fringe 2010 but for now it's off up to Edinburgh for the Fringe there! ("Oh you take the high road...")

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That's right folks - three days into our run in Edinburgh and we had our first sell-out show last night!
We're used to having to turn people away from shows in Buxton but in Edinburgh this was a big surprise to us all. The tragi-comedy of quick-witted punning, over-shaken drinks bottles and overflowing swear jars seems to be going down a storm north of the border.
We now await the publication of our first review which we expect from Three Weeks any day soon...
Watch this space - if the show continues to sell-out you may need to book in advance for tickets.

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Congratulations to Michael who was today announced as the winner of the 'Best Direction' award at this years Lost Theatre: One Act Theatre Festival. He won for his direction on the Three's Company and fragile theatre co-production of A Woman of Uncertain Age. This si the second solo award for Michael - and the seventh for Three's Company.

The play, written by Maggie Dealey, will be performed again at the Tristan Bates Theatre on May 20th where he will collect his award from Alison Steadman.

In other news, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Yaz who reaches the grand age of 21 today! I was going to say "congratulations" but all he really did was stay alive... Though considering his accident-prone nature, maybe that does deserve congratulations...?

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Play On Words has won the Cameron Mackintosh Award for New Writing in the Oxford New Writing Festival. Along with Tom's award, the Oxford Production recieved both the Best Actor and Best Actress awards. Congratulations all!

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Play On Words won 'Best Production By A Young Company' at the Fringe Awards yesterday: and was also nominated for Best Comedy. Special congratulations to Yaz who also picked up a nomination for 'Best Young Actor' for his performance as Eddie in the play.

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We are pleased to announce that Plane Of Existence picked up Best Musical Comedy at the Fringe Awards yesterday. Tom's script also received a nomination for Best New Writing. The last show on Saturday was an exciting end to the run and we can confirm that we reached a total audience of way over 600! Thank-you to everyone who came to see it and to all the musicians and crew involved.
We are now turning our attention to Later Showers which we will be polishing this week before heading up to Edinburgh for the Fringe on August 1st. First performance at C Electric on August 3rd!

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