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Dateline: 8th November, 2011

Evening Standard Short List

The Evening Standard has announced the short list for its Theatre Awards:

Best Actor

• Bertie Carvel for Matilda The Musical (RSC Stratford & Cambridge Theatre)
• Benedict Cumberbatch for Frankenstein (National’s Olivier)
• Charles Edwards for Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe)
• Jonny Lee Miller for Frankenstein (National’s Olivier)

Best Actress

• Kristin Scott Thomas for Betrayal (Comedy)
• Sheridan Smith for Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Samantha Spiro for Chicken Soup with Barley (Royal Court)
• Imelda Staunton for A Delicate Balance (Almeida)

Best Director

• Rob Ashford for Anna Christie (Donmar)
• Dominic Cooke for Chicken Soup with Barley (Royal Court)
• Edward Hall forRichard III & The Comedy of Errors (Hampstead)
• Mike Leigh for Grief (National’s Cottesloe)

The Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

• EV Crowe for Kin (Royal Court)
• Vivienne Franzmann for Mogadishu (Lyric Hammersmith)
• Penelope Skinner for The Village Bike (Royal Court)

Best Design

• Bunny Christie for Men Should Weep (National’s Lyttelton)
• Lizzie Clachan for Wastwater (Royal Court)
• Adam Cork for sound designer of Anna Christie& King Lear (Donmar)
• Mark Tildesley for Frankenstein (National’s Olivier)

The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

• Phoebe Fox for her performances in As You Like It (Rose Kingston) and The Acid Test (Royal Court) & There Is A War (National’s Paintframe)
• Malachi Kirby for his performance in Mogadishu (Lyric, Hammersmith)
• Kyle Soller for his performances in The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic) & Government Inspector (Young Vic) & The Faith Machine (Royal Court)
• David Wilson Barnes for his performance in Becky Shaw (Almeida)

Best Play

• The Heretic by Richard Bean (Royal Court)
• One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean (National’s Lyttelton)
• Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo (Almeida)
• Tribes by Nina Raine (Royal Court)

The Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

• Betty Blue Eyes (Novello)
• London Road (National’s Cottesloe)
• Matilda the Musical (RSC Stratford & Cambridge Theatre)

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards are to be held on 20th November at the Savoy Hotel.

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