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2025 DarkChat Awards Nominations
As this year's Fringe begins to fade into the dim and distant past what better way to relive some of your favourite moments with the 2025 DarkChat awards.
Yes, for the 15th time we are handing out awards to some of our favourite shows. For those of you who like numbers, there are 17 different categories, with 29 different shows nominated and a total of 113 nominees.
So, how can we hear who wins you might wonder? We'll be live tweeting on our X feed on the evening of Saturday 20th September when you can toast the winners & commiserate with the non-winners, no one is a loser at DarkChat!
You can see the full list of nominations here
And so it ends almost as
soon as it begins
Well, the Edinburgh Fringe is not 2 weeks old but DarkChat are done, having had feet on the ground since the beginning of the festival, factors that tried to change things, (including one of us getting Covid and then Storm Floris doing it's best to stop half of us getting to Edinburgh before we even arrived!) we've enjoyed yet another year at the Fringe, but real-life now intervenes and we'll be returning to our 'normal' lives over the next few days. If you want to look at what shows we saw, and our reviews for them you can see them here, see anything you like the look of?
This year DARKCHAT originals David, Carl and Kate were back again along with relative newbies David and Thuranie plus Harri and Dylan, who despite being only sixteen were attending their 8th festival!
Keeping in touch with goings on in Edinburgh we've also interviewed Arthur Hull to see how his show 'FLOP' has been going this year.
Before August arrived David was also out and about looking for talent, some new, some a little more well known. A trip to the New Theatre, Cardiff to see Nick Mohammed - Show Pony gave us the opportunity to be impressed by newcomer Ben Pope who also gave us an interview prior to us seeing him at this year's festival.
David then moved to Edgbaston to take in some tennis and whilst there took the opportunity to watch "Scouts - The Musical". This is produced by Gigglemug Theatre, who are returning to the festival with last year's success " Jaffa Cake - The Musical". Artistic Director Sam Cochrane kindly gave us a lovely interview to whet our appetite.
You can read both interviews on our news page here.
DarkChat Awards 2024
Well, that is now the official end of the of the 2024 Edinburgh festival season, well for us at least as the 2024 DarkChat awards have taken place!
Today we announce the winners of our 15th Annual Awards, honouring our favourite shows from
this year's festival.
Amazingly, these were the first that awards that DarkChatter David has published on Twitter/X all
by himself! No longer can DarkChatter Carl poke fun at his lack of technical skills! (Ed - it won't stop me!)
There were several big winners. Reves picked up 3 awards for Best Entertainment/Music/Dance, Best
Director and the coveted Best Show accolade.
However, DarkChat favourite John Robertson took home the most gongs, triumphing in four categories, Best Moment, Best One Person Show, Best Comedy Show & Best Comedy Performance.
So, we can now go into hibernation until January 2025 when the shows start to be released for next year's Edinburgh festival. And we can't wait!
You can check out all of the winners and a full list of nominees here.
Before the awards we took time out from the intense planning to interview some of
the people we encountered during our stay at the Fringe. David Cox spoke to CEO
of the Eric Liddell Community about their Exhibition "The Eric Liddell Exhibition" which
which we loved attending during August, the work of the charity and how they are
celebrating the centenary of Liddell's 1924 Olympic win.
You can read that interview here.
