One of our own...

We at the Wrecking Ball are tickled to report that Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End has won the prestigious Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s production at this year’s Edinburgh Festival.

Why are we so tickled? Well, first and foremost, seeing one of Canada’s top playwrights lauded on the international stage for their political writing is a good thing by us any day of the week.

But second, we’d be hard pressed not to mention that the first of the three monologues about the Iraq War that make up Palace of the End, was commissioned for the inaugural Wrecking Ball way back on Nov 1, 2004!

From all of us at the Wrecking Ball, congratulations Judith!

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• 3 09 2009 - 18:55