Near miss
Did I mention how the fringe show I work on almost got nominated for an if.comedy award?
After three weeks of visits to the show from judges, the panel met last Wednesday morning and decided that The Penny Dreadfuls‘ Aeneas Faversham Forever was so funny that it should be short-listed for the main if.comedy prize.
Then, five minutes later, one of the judges remarked that the show wasn’t actually eligible because it was a play. Hmm.
Lively opinions were exchanged (ahem) with the director of the award and another panellist fighting our corner. Sadly, they didn’t convince enough of the other judges. So that’s possibly why the nomination list was a little short this year.
When the news reached us, we had a few hours of mild hysteria and bewilderment as we tried to get our heads around what had (nearly) happened – then drowned those heads at the Avalon birthday party free bar. Meh. I don’t think we’d have won this year, but it would have been nice to be nominated.
Fortunately, the spirit of the Fringe panel prize was awarded last night to every performer at the Fringe in the shape of a free drink on Monday evening (news which was slightly muted by delivering it to a room full of people already on their third free drink of the evening). So there’s that for the poster.
Also see: Why the if.comedy shortlist is intriguingly short.