Freedom of Expression Award
The Freedom of Expression Award honours festival productions of excellent artistic merit, which build understanding and engagement of human rights. Entry to the Award is free and open to all festival productions.
All entries are visited by Amnesty reviewers to create a shortlist, which is announced in mid August. A panel of professional theatre critics then determine the eventual winner, which is announced at the end of the festival.
Award winner 2009 announced
Amnesty has announced that Palace of the End by Judith Thompson has won its prestigious Freedom of Expression Award.
The production was by the Royal Exchange Theatre Company (Manchester) at the Traverse. Read the press release
Freedom of Expression Award: Recent winners
Recent winners of this increasingly distinguished award include:
| 2008: Deep Cut - the story of how one ordinary couple have fought state intransigence to demand a full inquiry into the deaths of four young people, including their daughter, at the British army's Deepcut barracks. |
| 2007: The Container - a play about asylum, and racial and religious persecution, staged in a contained lorry with the audience shut inside. |
| 2006: The Exonerated - true stories of six men and women sent to death row after wrongful convictions, but eventually found innocent and released. |
