This year’s Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism goes to Jason Watkins for his review of the writer and actor’s one-woman show about her celebrated late father Ken • Joint runner-up: Kate Wyver’s reflections on the video game Sorry to Bother You • Joint runner-up: Tara McEvoy on Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin _Jason Watkins is a special needs teacher and __tutor for pupils out of education based in Otley, __West Yorkshire. He __previously worked in TV and as a film researcher__. The judges praised his “lively, casually erudite style, in the best tradition of Anthony Burgess’s own work for the Observer”._ In naming his daughter after the Greek goddess of discord and misrule, maverick director/actor/playwright Ken Campbell gave her a lot to live up to. _Pigspurt’s Daughter_, a solo show by Daisy Eris Campbell to mark the 10th anniversary of her father’s death, is a window on a remarkable parent-child relationship bound by a love of logic-defying overstimulation and an aversion to anything routine or everyday. Continue reading...
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