Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2001

The 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 54th Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Fringe ran from 5–27 August 2001 and presented 1462 shows over 176 venues.^[1]

Awards

Theatre

Scotsman Fringe First Awards

Week One:

• Gagarin Way
• Runt
• Like Thunder
• Bedbound
• Ferdydurke

Week Two:

• Man in the Flying Lawn Chair
• Moving Objects
• Raw
• Jesus Hopped the A Train
• Neutrino

Week Three:

• School for Fools
• Upside Down
• Cracked
• Mental
• Midden

Comedy

Perrier Comedy Awards

Winner:

• Garth Marenghi's Netherhead (Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness and Alice Lowe)

Nominees:

• Jason Byrne
• Adam Hills - Go You Big Red Fire Engine
• Daniel Kitson - Love, Innocence And The Word Cock
• Dan Antopolski - Antopolski 2000

Best Newcomer Award

Winner:

• Garth Cruickshank and Eddie McCabe - Let's Have a Shambles

Nominees:

• Andy Zaltzman versus the Dog of Doom
• Danny Bhoy
• Cambridge Footlights - Far too Happy (Edward Jaspers, Tim Key, Dan Macaskill, James Morris, Mark Watson and Sophie Winkleman)