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The Scotsman Fringe Firsts are awarded to outstanding new writing premiered at the festival – here are our first six winners of 2017

Since 1973 The Scotsman’s world famous Fringe First awards have been recognising outstanding new writing premiered at the festival. The winners are announced each Friday during the Fringe – with the final week’s winners revealed at The Scotsman Fringe Awards at the Pleasance on 25 August.

Thank you to our judges, Joyce Mcmillan, Mark Fisher, Susan Mansfield, Jackie Mcglone, Fiona Shepherd, David Pollock and Sally Stott.

And congratulations to all of our winners.

In this remarkable show, one of six brought to Assembly this year by Baxter Theatre in South Africa, a cast of seven re-enact the moment, in 2015, when a statue of Cecil Rhodes was removed from the campus of the University of Cape Town – and the fierce debates that followed. See Joyce Mcmillan’s review, page 7.

Elliot Warren’s blistering play, at Pleasance, blends Shakespearean la mouths of two people who live in abject poverty – cockney wide boy Terence and girlfriend Kelly, who w

Gary Mcnair’s new show at the Traverse describes how, as a solitary teenager, he found solace in Morrissey and wrote to him (fruitlessly) asking for advice. It’s a rich, affectionate coming of age story.

This show on capitalism – timely, hilarious, an