Best New Play
August: Osage County
By Tracy Letts
(National Theatre presentation of the Steppenwolf Company production
in the Lyttelton Theatre)
Best Musical (new or revival)
La Cage Aux Folles
(Menier Chocolate Factory, London, followed by transfer to Playhouse
Theatre, London)
Best Actor
Kenneth Branagh for Ivanov
(Donmar Warehouse at Wyndham’s Theatre, London)
Best Actress
Margaret Tyzack for The
Chalk Garden
(Donmar Warehouse, London)
The John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance
Awarded jointly to:
Derek Jacobi in Twelfth
Night
(Donmar Warehouse at Wyndham’s Theatre, London)
and
David Tennant in Hamlet
(Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, followed by transfer
to Novello Theatre, London)
Best Director
Michael Grandage for Ivanov
& The Chalk Garden
(Donmar Warehouse at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, and Donmar Warehouse,
London)
Best Designer
Neil Murray for Brief
Encounter
(Kneehigh Theatre at Cinema Haymarket, London)
Most Promising Playwright
Alexi Kaye Campbell for The
Pride
(Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs London)
The Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer (other than
a playwright)
Ella Smith in Fat Pig
