Donmar's STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Wins South Bank Show Award; First Winners Announced

It was announced today that the Donmar Warehouse production of A Streetcar Named Desire won the Theatre Award at the final South Bank Show Awards. The production ran from August to October 2009 with a cast including Jack Ashton, Elliot Cowan, Charles Daish, Judy Hepburn, Barnaby Kay, Gary Milner, Daniela Nardini, Luke Rutherford, Rachel Weisz, and Ruth Wilson.

The South Bank Show awards celebrate the best of British talent across the arts including Classical Music, Comedy, Dance, Film, Literature, Opera, Pop, Theatre, TV Drama and Visual Arts. This is the show's fourteenth awards ceremony and it will be the last.

"These are the only awards in the world wholly devoted to the arts," Host Melvyn Bragg explains. "They reflect the range covered by The South Bank Show over the years. Time & again the judges have turned up with apparently rather offbeat lists which have contained artists whose work has gone on to be central to the culture. And it is great fun!"

The full list of nominees is as follows; * denotes winner - a full list of winners will be available after the broadcast airs on January 31 on ITV1.

Dance

Diversity - Dance Troupe
E=mc² - David Bintley - Birmingham Royal Ballet*
Limen - Wayne McGregor - Royal Opera House

Pop

Florence + the Machine - Lungs
Frankmusik - Complete Me
The xx - xx

Films

An Education
Fish Tank
The Damned United

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire - Donmar Warehouse*
Jerusalem - Jez Butterworth - Royal Court Theatre
The Habit of Art - Alan Bennett - National Theatre

Comedy

Home Time - BBC2
The Inbetweeners - E4
The Thick Of It - BBC2*

TV Drama

Being Human - BBC3
Collision - ITV1
Red Riding - CH4*

Classical Music

City of Dreams: Vienna 1900-1935 - Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Nielsen Inextinguishable - A cycle of concerts performed by The Hallé Orchestra and The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Easter Reflections - The Sixteen

Opera

Into the Little Hill / Down by the Greenwood Side - Linbury Studio - ROH2 / The Opera Group / London Sinfonietta
Peter Grimes - ENO
The Fairy Queen - Glyndebourne

Visual Arts

Richard Long - Tate Britain
Roger Hiorns - Seizure
Anish Kapoor - RA

Literature

Forest Gate - Peter Akinti
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds

Arts Council England's Diversity Award

Julie McNamara - Playwright and performing artist*
Jenny Sealey - Graeae Theatre Company
Clean Break - Theatre, Education, new Writing

The Times Breakthrough Award - to be presented by Sir Ian McKellen

Alina Ibragimova - for Classical Music
Emma Fryer - for Comedy
Melissa Hamilton - for Dance
Carey Mulligan - for Film
Peter Akinti - for Literature
Daniel Kramer - for Opera
The xx - for Pop
Lucy Prebble - for Theatre
SurAnne Jones - for TV Drama
David Blandy - for Visual Art*

Outstanding Achievement Award in association with The Dorchester
Melvyn Bragg

 

 

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