FIRST RATE

Today we are delighted to reveal our final six Fringe First winners of 2018 – and the full line-up for The Scotsman Fringe Awards at Pleasance Beyond tomorrow morning. Will you be joining us?

Tomorrow morning our final six Fringe First winners of 2018 will receive their prizes at the Scotsman Fringe Awards, the biggest awards ceremony at the Edinburgh festivals – if you want to come you can reserve free tickets by taking the form below to the Pleasance box office.

We can now reveal the full line-up for the awards show:

As previously announced,

Jason Donovan, pictured, will be our special guest presenter. Jason is currently performing his Amazing Midlife Crisis at Assembly George Square, 3pm each day, until 26 August.

Last Tapes, creators of the Fringe First award-winning

Valerie (see right) will open and close the awards with music from the show.

The whole cast of My Left Right Foot: the Musical – a Fringe First winner last week – will perform one of the show’s many hilarious songs.

There will also be a short performance by Polly Frame, star of On The Exhale at the Traverse, another of our Fringe First winners.

In between these performances, we’ll be announcing the winners of the following awards:

l The Carol Tambor Award, which takes one show each year to New York

l The Holden Street Theatres Award, which takes one show each year to the Adelaide Fringe

l The Brighton Fringe Award

l The Mental Health Fringe Award

l The Filipa Braganca award (for an outstanding solo female performer).

l Our final 2018 Scotsman Fringe Firsts, which are awarded in recognition of the most oustanding new writing on the Fringe.

There will be full coverage of the awards, and the winners, in the main section of the paper on Saturday.