Theatre Awards UK will be presented at a lunchtime ceremony at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, one of the five Historic Royal Palaces, on Sunday 30 October 2011.
The re-launched annual Theatre and Theatre Management Awards are given to honour creative excellence and the outstanding work seen on stages throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Nominations are as follows:
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY
Marianne Oldham for THE YEARS BETWEEN: a Royal & Derngate, Northampton production at the Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonDavid Haig for THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III: a Peter Hall Company production at the Theatre Royal, Bath and on tourDerek Jacobi for KING LEAR: A Donmar Warehouse production at the Grand Opera House, Belfast and on tour
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Kenneth Alan Taylor for THE PRICE: an Octagon Theatre Bolton, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and Hull Truck Theatre production on tourBEST NEW PLAY
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE: a Theatre Royal, Plymouth and Paines Plough production at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth and on tourMOGADISHU: a Royal Exchange, Manchester production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and on tour.HERDING CATS: a Theatre Royal, Bath production in the Ustinov Studio
BEST SHOW FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.
WHITE: a Catherine Wheels production at the Theatre Royal, Bath
SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS: a Bristol Old Vic production at the Bristol Old VicTHE MONSTER IN THE HALL at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and on tour
BEST MUSICAL PRODUCTION
BEST TOURING PRODUCTION
THE TEMPEST directed by Declan Donnellan a Chekhov International Festival and Cheek by Jowl production, on tourRICHARD III and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS directed by Edward Hall: both Propeller productions, on tourTHE BIG FELLAH directed by Max Stafford-Clark: an Out of Joint and Lyric Hammersmith production on tour
BEST DESIGN
Happy Days designed by Lizzie Clachan, lighting design by Natasha Chivers: A Sheffield Theatres production at Sheffield Studio‘TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE designed by Mike Britton, lighting design by Oliver Fenwick: a West Yorkshire Playhouse production at the West Yorkshire PlayhouseTHE DUCHESS OF MALFI designed by Ruth Sutcliffe, lighting design by Philip Gladwell; aBEST DIRECTOR
Erica Wyman for WHO'S AFRAID OF Virginia Woolf? A Sheffield Theatres and Northern Stage co-production at Sheffield Theatres and Northern Stage.Muriel Romanes for AGE OF AROUSAL: a co-production between Stellar Quines and the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, on tourMichael Sheen and Bill Mitchell for THE PASSION a National Theatre Wales/Wild Works co-productionBEST PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL
Tony Hasnath for THE JUNGLE BOOK: at Lyric Theatre, BelfastJemima Rooper for ME AND MY GIRL: A Sheffield Theatres production at the Crucible, SheffieldBertie Carvel for MATILDA at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonOUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DANCE
New Adventures for an outstanding revision of CINDERELLALuca Silvestrini's Protein Dance for LOL - an ingenious multi-media blending of choreography with text.Hofesh Shechter's POLITICAL MOTHER - a powerful piece by a choreographer on a controversial theme.OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN OPERA
Opera North for the variety of its repertoire this seasonMUSIC THEATRE WALES for its production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's GreekGERALD FINLEY for his performance as Hans Sachs in Glyndebourne Festival's production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
The categories of the Awards are:
- Best Performance in a Play
- Best Supporting Performance in a Play
- Best New Play
- Best Show for Children and Young People
- Best Musical Production
- Best Performance in a Musical
- Best Supporting Performance in a Musical
- Best Design
- Best Director
- Achievement in Dance
- Achievement in Opera
- Renee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre
- Achievement in Marketing
- Most Welcoming Theatre
- Promotion of Cultural Diversity
- Theatre Employee/Manager of the Year
In addition, the TMA will honour an individual with the award of Special Achievement in Regional Theatre.
Nominations for most awards are made by TMA panellists. Any individual(s) within a TMA member organisation can nominate themselves or their colleagues for any of the following awards: Best Presentation of Touring Theatre, Achievement in Marketing, Most Welcoming Theatre, Promotion of Cultural Diversity and Theatre Employee/Manager of the Year.
Places at the lunch are limited so please book asap.
To book your place please click here (you may need to login or register with the website first) or send a cheque for £78 (£65 plus VAT) per person payable to 'Theatrical Management Association' with the booking form to Theatre Awards UK, 32 Rose Street, London WC2E 9ET. Alternatively you can contact the Awards office directly on 020 7557 6777 or awards@solttma.co.uk
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