THE
PERRIER COMEDY AWARD 2005
WINNERS OF THE 2005 PERRIER COMEDY AWARDS ANNOUNCED
On Saturday 27th August at the Awards Party at Holyrood Park House in Edinburgh
Laura Solon was named winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award.
Kopfrapers Syndrome is 26 year old Laura's Edinburgh debut.
In this show she plays 8 radically different characters introducing, amongst
others: The Festival Bookworm, the Rain-Proof Siren, Karen the prize winning
beautician and Borgesia the Polish story teller with a radical take on Aesop’s
Fables. Laura has previously appeared on the first episode of BBC 2’s
Sack Race posing as a fundamentalist Christian who found God in a pizza, trying
to get fired from a Wimbledon nail bar before 3pm that afternoon. She succeeded.
The prize is a trophy, a cheque for £7,500 and the opportunity for the
winner, and shortlist, to appear in the West End as part of the acclaimed
PERRIER AWARD SEASON.
The award for Perrier Best newcomer goes to Tim Minchin: Darkside.
Australian multi-talent Tim Minchin's show is a smorgasbord of stunning musicality,
hilarious stand up and average air guitar. At once bawdy and sophisticated,
Minchin addresses humankind's greatest challenges- inflatable love, plastic
bags, twist-top wine bottles and anger management.
Nica
Burns, Director of the Perrier Award says:
"The final debate matched the intensity of that in 1991 in a year
when the shortlist was remarkable in its range and diversity. How fitting,
in the 25th year, that out of the blue a young woman of extraordinary talent
should be discovered in an out of the way venue and become the surprise winner
and only the second solo woman to win the Perrier. Laura Solon is an extraordinary
writer and performer who will become a major star. Let us hope that in the
next 25 years, a woman winner of a comedy award will not be an unusual event."
The shortlist
for the Perrier Comedy Award 2005
Chris Addison - 'Atomicity'
Dutch Elm Conservatoire 'Conspiracy'
Jason Manford - 'Urban Legend'
Jeremy Lion - 'What's The Time, Mr Lion'
Laura Solon - 'Kopfrapers Syndrome'
The
nominations for Perrier Best Newcomer
Charlie Pickering 'Betterman'
Mark Watson '50 Years Before Death'
Rhod Gilbert's 1984
Tim Minchin 'Darkside'
Toulson and Harvey
View film of the awards presentation courtesy of EdinburghGuide.com
Top
pic:
Laura Solon is presented her award by last year's winner Will Adamsdale,
with Awards Director Nica Burns and co-presenter Paul Merton.
Bottom pic:
Tim Minchin receives his award for Best Newcomer
photos: Geraint Lewis
