Broadway Baby’s first Bobby of the 2024 Festival Fringe finds new home in a Boarding School article by Pete Shaw

By Pete Shaw
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16th Aug 2024
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Broadway Baby presented their first prestigious Bobby Award of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe to An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo by Choir Boys & Co at Just the Tonic.

They made the play a joy from beginning to end

Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck said, "Broadway Baby is delighted to recognise the outstanding achievement of all those involved in this production. In particular it's a joy to give encouragement to Ned Blackburn, clearly a budding new writer and powerful performer and to Will Walford for his remarkable, multi-role character creations. Along with their director they made the play a joy from beginning to end."

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