Kieran Hurley’s excellent story show Heads Up is on every day at Summerhall
ONE of the Edinburgh Fringe's youngest venues has been awarded half of the Fringe First awards given by the Scotsman newspaper in the first week of the Fringe.
Summerhall, which opened as an arts venue in 2011, is host to Counting Sheep and Aurora Nova's Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Kieran Hurley’s Heads Up and World Without Us from Ontroerend Goed, all of which were winners of the awards which celebrate new writing.
The latter two were afforded four-star reviews in The National, as did Adura Onashile’s Expensive Shit at The Traverse.
There were also wins for The Interference by Lynda Radley performed by Pepperdine Scotland at C Venues and for Angel by Henry Naylor at the Gilded Balloon.
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