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Dateline: 7th December, 2005

Beauty Queen of Leenane
Eileen O'Brien in The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Bolton Octagon
Manchester Evening News Awards Winners

The winners of the 2005 Manchester Evening News awards for theatre have been announced:

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Siobhan Finneran for On the Shore of the Wide World at the Royal Exchange, Manchester

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Rolf Saxon for The Price at the Library Theatre. Manchester

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Eileen O'Brien for The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Bolton Octagon

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
David Fleeshman for The Price at the Library Theatre

Best Actress in a Visiting Production
Seroca Davis for Little Sweet Thing at Contact, Manchester

Best Actor in a Visiting Production
Ben Chaplin for This Is How It Goes at The Lowry, Salford

Best Fringe Performer
Jenni Howarth-Williams for Salford Stuffers at Studio Salford

Best Musical
My Fair Lady at the Palace Theatre, Manchester

Best Visiting Production
This Is How It Goes from the Donmar Warehouse at The Lowry

Best Fringe Production
Moving Pictures from MediaMedea at the 24/7 Theatre Festival

Best Special Entertainment
Macbeth from Out of Joint Theatre Company at Union Mill and Vulcan Works Paperworld

Comedy Award
Little Britain Live at the Manchester Apollo

Best Design
Beautiful Thing at Bolton Octagon

Best International Production
Saltimbanco from Cirque du Soleil at the Trafford Centre

Best New Play
On the Shore of the Wide World by Simon Stephens at the Royal Exchange

Opera Award
La Cenerentola at the Royal Northern College of Music

Dance Award
CandoCo at Contact

Most Promising Newcomer
Oliver Lee for Beautiful Thing at Bolton Octagon

Best Production
The Beauty Queen Of Leenane at Bolton Octagon

Best Studio Production
Iron at Contact

Best Performance in a Studio Production
Alexander Campbell for Private Peaceful at The Lowry

The Horniman Award for Special Contribution to Theatre
Ian Smith and Neil Smith for the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival at Buxton Opera House

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©Peter Lathan 2005