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Dateline: 19th May, 2009

Critcs' Awards for Theatre in Scotland logo

CATS Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for the 2009 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland has been announced:

Best Male Performance

  • Andy Clark, for The Ching Room (A Play, a Pie and a Pint)
  • Billy Mack for The Sound of My Voice (Citizens' Theatre)
  • Billy Seymour for Pornography (Traverse Theatre/Birmingham Rep)
  • Matthew Zajac for The Tailor of Inverness (Dogstar Theatre)

Best Female Performance

  • Cora Bissett for Midsummer (Traverse Theatre)
  • Irene Macdougall for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Dundee Rep)
  • Gabriel Quigley for Bliss/Mud (Tron Theatre)
  • Gerda Stevenson for The Lasses, O (Rowan Tree Theatre)

Best Director

  • James Brining for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Dundee Rep)
  • David Leddy for Sub Rosa (Fire Exit/Citizens' Theatre)
  • Matthew Lenton for Interiors (Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre)
  • Jemima Levick for Beauty and the Beast (Dundee Rep)

Best Ensemble

  • Architecting, The TEAM/National Theatre of Scotland
  • Cockroach, Traverse Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland
  • The Drawer Boy, Tron Theatre
  • Interiors, Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre

Best New Play

  • David Greig/Gordon McIntyre for Midsummer (Traverse Theatre)
  • Sam Holcroft for Cockroach (Traverse Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland)
  • David Leddy for Sub Rosa (Fire Exit/Citizens' Theatre)
  • Simon Stephens for Pornography (Traverse Theatre/Birmingham Rep)

Best Production for Children and Young People

  • Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
  • Liar, TAG/Sounds of Progress
  • Peter Pan, Visible Fictions/Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis
  • Rudolph, Andy Manley/MacRobert

Best Design

  • Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds (design), Simon Wilkinson (lighting), Anna Scatola (puppet maker) for Slick (Vox Motus/Tron Theatre)
  • Stewart Laing for Les Parents Terribles (Dundee Rep)
  • Alex Lowde (set) and Chris Davey (lighting) for Beauty and the Beast (Dundee Rep)
  • Jason Southgate (set) and Graham Sutherland (lighting) for The Sound of My Voice (Citizens' Theatre)

Best Use of Music and Sound

  • Seylan Baxter, Lillias Kinsman-Blake and Rachel Newton for The Lasses, O (Rowan Tree Theatre)
  • Paddy Cunneen for Waltz of the Cold Wind (A Play, a Pie and a Pint)
  • David Paul Jones and Zoey Van Goey for Dolls (Hush Productions/National Theatre of Scotland)
  • Gordon McIntyre for Midsummer (Traverse Theatre)

Best Technical Presentation

  • 4.48 Psychosis (Sweetscar/Cumbernauld Theatre/Tramway)
  • Peeping at Bosch (Mischief La Bas/National Theatre of Scotland)
  • Slick (Vox Motus/Tron Theatre)
  • Sub Rosa (Fire Exit/Citizens' Theatre)

Best Production

  • Beauty and the Beast (Dundee Rep)
  • Interiors (Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre)
  • Midsummer (Traverse Theatre)
  • Sub Rosa (Fire Exit/Citizens' Theatre)
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Dundee Rep)

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Sunday 14th June at 5.30pm at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.

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