It is awards season in theatreland in the north west, with two regional
newspapers and one fringe theatre celebrating the best of theatre within
its area over the past year.
The nominations chosen by the panel of the Manchester Evening News
Theatre Awards have been published today in the newspaper's weekly City
Life supplement. Due to a shakeup at the company after its takeover
by Trinity Mirror, the awards, which have been running since 1982, are
being announced much later than usual and were, for a time, thought
not to be taking place at all. The winners will be announced in a special
MEN supplement to be published on 10 February.
Production
Arcadia, Library
Theatre
Glengarry Glen Ross,
Library Theatre
A Raisin In The Sun,
Royal Exchange Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire,
Bolton Octagon
Actor in a Leading Role
Richard Dormer in Glengarry Glen Ross at Library Theatre
Ray Fearon in A Raisin In The Sun at Royal Exchange Theatre
Jonathan McGuinness in 1984
at Royal Exchange Theatre
Simon Robson in Pygmalion
at Royal Exchange Theatre
Actress in a Leading Role
Starletta Du Pois in A Raisin In The Sun at Royal Exchange
Theatre
Clare Foster in A Streetcar Named Desire at Bolton Octagon
Cush Jumbo in Pygmalion at Royal Exchange Theatre
Margot Leicester in Ghosts
at Bolton Octagon
Actor in a Supporting Role
Ian Bartholomew in Pygmalion at Royal Exchange Theatre
Huw Higginson in A Streetcar Named Desire at Bolton Octagon
Oscar Pearce in Ghosts at Bolton Octagon
James Wallace in Arcadia at Library Theatre
Actress in a Supporting Role
Sally Carman in Beautiful
House at Library Theatre
Nellie Harker in Blithe
Spirit at Royal Exchange Theatre
Jenny Jules in A Raisin In The Sun at Royal Exchange Theatre
Catherine Kinsella in The
Memory Of Water at Oldham Coliseum
Visiting Production
The Author, Royal
Exchange Studio
Days Of Significance,
The Lowry
ENRON, The Lowry
The Pitmen Painters,
The Lowry
Actor in a Visiting Production
Michael Ball in Hairspray
at The Palace
Christopher Connel in The Pitmen Painters at The Lowry
Bob Golding in Morecambe
at The Library and The Lowry
John Owen-Jones in Les
Misérables at Palace Theatre and The Lowry
Actress in a Visiting Production
Katherine Dow Blyton in Corrie!
at The Lowry
Charlotte Emmerson in Serenading Louie at The Lowry
Connie Fisher in The Sound
Of Music at Palace Theatre
Louise Plowright in White
Christmas at The Lowry
Studio Production
The Enemies Within, Bolton Octagon Studio
Salt, Royal Exchange Studio
Love, Love, Love, Royal Exchange Studio
The Fragility of X, Contact Theatre
Performance in a Studio Production
Beth Cordingley in Salt at Royal Exchange Studio
Alex Moran in Tales From The Black Jack at The Lowry Studio
Dyfed Thomas in The Enemies Within at Bolton Octagon Studio
Fringe Production
The Bluest Blue
at 24:7 Theatre Festival
The Fading Hum
at 24:7 Theatre Festival
Hatch at 24:7 Theatre
Festival
Islanders at
24:7 Theatre Festival
Performance in a Fringe Production
Mark Frampton in Islanders at 24:7 Theatre Festival
Joe Ransome in Going To Extremes at JB Shorts
New Play
Blackberry Trout Face, Contact Theatre
Fireflies, The Lowry
Salt, Royal Exchange Studio
Slave, The Lowry
Newcomer
Bhavna Limbachia in Rafta
Rafta at Bolton Octagon
Lashana Lynch in Slave at The Lowry
Kirsty Osmond in I Ought
To Be In Pictures at The Library
Beth Park in Arcadia at The Lowry
Dance
Bahok from Akram Khan
Company at The Lowry
Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella at The Lowry
Matthew Bourne’s Dorian
Gray at The Lowry
Romeo and Juliet from Birmingham Royal Ballet at The Lowry
Design
1984, Royal Exchange Theatre
Arcadia, Library Theatre
Dr Faustus, Royal Exchange Theatre
Salt, Royal Exchange Studio
Family Show
Cirkus Cirkor, The Lowry
David Copperfield,
Bolton Octagon
Grimm Tales, Library
Theatre
Sleeping Beauty,
Oldham Coliseum
Musical
Hairspray, Opera House
Les Misérables, Palace Theatre and The Lowry
The Sound Of Music, Palace Theatre
Spamalot, Opera
House
Opera
The Adventures Of Mr Broucek
from Opera North at The Lowry
La Belle Helene at the Royal Northern College of Music
La Cenerentola at Clonter Opera, Congleton
The Turn of the Screw
from Opera North at The Lowry
Special Entertainment
Cirque De Soleil in Varekai at the Trafford Centre
Corrie! at The Lowry
Morecambe at The Lowry and The Library
Traces at The Lowry
A little further west, Liverpool Daily Post announced its awards winners
just before Christmas for theatre in the Liverpool area. The winners
were:
On the Manchester fringe, leading fringe venue Studio Salford held
its own awards ceremony for productions that had been performed within
its walls over the King's Arms in Salford over the last year, all voted
for by audience members. The winners were:
