The winners revealed for the unexploited prize of 2025 Edinburgh

This year’s winners were announced for the unexploited prize in Edinburgh – designed to support and discover theater producers at the Fringe Festival Edinburgh. The three winning companies that will receive a cash subsidy of 10,000 pounds to hold their show in Edinburgh are, Alpaqa, which presents Jeezus! Tickets for all shows are for sale now and are available from Subbellyedinburgh.co.uk/untaped.

The partnership with Underbelly, New Diorama and Concord Theater aims to discover and support early and middle theater producers from Edinburgh Fringe, and this year does not prove different, because companies are preparing to present the game change in August. Over the years, the unexploited prize has become a major launcher, recognized at national level for his success in identifying and platform a new brilliant talent, the winners to engage in successful tournaments, to make transfers, to provide international opportunities and to win awards!

Alpaqa, a theater group led by creators Sergio Antonio Maggiolo, Guido Garcia Lueches and Laura Killeen, will present Jeezus! Located against the backdrop of a Catholic education in South America, he follows an altar boy on the path of his first communist – just to experience an unusual awakening while falling with his head over heel (and deep balls) for Jesus Christ himself. By mixing the clown, the musical theater and the magical realism, the show unpacks the suffocating closeness of authoritarianism in faith, family and homeland while celebrating the absurdity and beauty of faith. The public can expect to laugh until the faces are hurt, to reflect on their own education and may even find healing in the recognition of their own deity. In the middle of the dark times, Jeezus! Fall in love to imagine a hopeful future – one in which Queer’s release shines.

The non-stop creative team, made up of Lou Doyle, Trevor White and Kendra A Miller multidisciplinary artists, have a Fly Easy Ryan pigs, a wild show with big flights for the 18-year-old. Two aircraft girls are illegally present as flight attendants to slip on a plane and live their final fantasy – total destruction. Hilarious, chaotic and strangely tender, the show erotes the playful Freedom into a world that is thrown at the edge of climate collapse and growing fascism. With a mixture of physical comedy, visceral intensity and direct sincerity to the audience, the pigs fly slightly Ryan captures the thrill of a spontaneous getaway on a maximum credit card with the guilt, escape and euphoria. In its center, it is an exploration of the connection, consumption, safety, sex and survival, all wrapped in a slightly sticky hug. Catara, it will be a turbulent walk.

Emergency award-winning performance duo, consisting of Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit, presents knowledge, a mysterious and slippery-theater work that explores the impossibility to predict the future. Through detailed choreography, live sound design and text found, Ben and Clara are investigating the strange tools that people have based to foresee what to come – lack of storm, victorian inventors, mystical figures, hermit in caves and predators of corporate trends. The show takes place in two distinct halves, moving from Deadpan humor and synchronized dance to an apocalyptic sound landscape and a scary descent in uncertainty. As we browse a world modeled by accelerating technology, corporate power and climatic crisis, ways to know cause our despair to control the unknown. Instead, he invites us to embrace uncertainty and create space to imagine better radically – together.

UNIPed has a remarkable registration for the identification of stand-out companies that present exceptional shows. Previous successes include the critical appreciation of the ugly sisters of 2024, which continued to transfer to London with a 3 -week run to New Diorama Theater, the first winner of Fringe It’s True, is true, is true for Breach, has been adapted to BBC Television; Nouveau Riche Riche awarded Sheba’s award -winning queens, recently played at the New York Public Theater, as part of the prestigious radar festival.

Alpaqa said today: “We are extremely pleased to have a stupid and sexy approach to the boy of Daddy Ultimate, Jeezus, to come to the edge under the unexploited umbrella. I cannot wait for the Cowgate public to experience this Holy Queer, anti -colonialist fantasy.”

Nonstop also commented: “Winning the unexploited prize filled us with the hope that we can continue to do what we like, in a way that would really feed us emotionally and artistically.

The emergency choir added: “We are absolutely over the moon to receive the unexploited prize. It is so wonderful to have a significant support to share our show with people this summer and a rare opportunity for small -scale edge producers to know the complexity of a show over a luxurious month.”

Together with the cash subsidy of 10,000 pounds, Jeezus!, Pigs Fly Easy Ryan and knowledge methods will also receive a PR Package and paid marketing assistance, an improved programming agreement at Edinburgh Fringe, and the publication by Concord Theatricals under their British Britain. The festival.

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