High drama at Edinburgh International Festival

Oliver Emanuel's play Flight was awarded a Herald Angel for its production at the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival, featuring a soundtrack by Mark Melville and directed by Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison. The show draws on the novel Hinterland by Caroline Brothers, which she developed from her 'journalistic coverage of young migrants from Afghanistan'. Additionally, Flight was listed as one of the shows at EIF to receive the most 5-star reviews.

Zinnie Harris also received a Herald Angel for her trilogy This Restless House, her adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia; a new version of Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros; and the world premiere of Meet Me At Dawn. These plays formed 'the core of the EIF drama programme' for 2017. For more information, see The Herald article.