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Dateline: 29th September, 2011

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TMA Awards Nominations

The Theatrical Management Association (TMA) has announced the nominations for its Theatre Awards UK 2011. The re-launched annual Theatre and Theatre Management Awards are given to honour creative excellence and the outstanding work seen on stages throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Nominees are:

Best Performance in a Play

  • Marianne Oldham for The Years Between: a Royal & Derngate, Northampton production at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton
  • David Haig for The Madness of George III: a Peter Hall Company production at the Theatre Royal, Bath and on tour
  • Derek Jacobi for King Lear: A Donmar Warehouse production at the Grand Opera House, Belfast and on tour

Best Supporting Performance

  • Kenneth Alan Taylor for The Price: an Octagon Theatre Bolton, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and Hull Truck Theatre production on tour
  • Clarke Peters for Five Guys Named Moe: a Theatre Royal Stratford East production at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East
  • Claire Price for The Pride: A Sheffield Theatres production at the Crucible, Sheffield

Best New Play

  • Love, Love, Love: a Theatre Royal, Plymouth and Paines Plough production at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth and on tour
  • Mogadishu: a Royal Exchange, Manchester production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and on tour.
  • Herding Cats: a Theatre Royal, Bath production in the Ustinov Studio

Best Show for Children and Young People

  • White: a Catherine Wheels production at the Theatre Royal, Bath
  • Swallows and Amazons: a Bristol Old Vic production at the Bristol Old Vic
  • The Monstrer in the Hall at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and on tour

Best Musical Production

  • Me and My Girl directed Anna Mackmin: a Sheffield Theatres production at the Crucible, Sheffield
  • Matilda the Musical directed by Matthew Warchus: an RSC production at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Singin' in the Rain directed by Jonathan Church: a Chichester Festival Theatre production at Chichester Festival Theatre

Best Touring Production

  • The Tempest directed by Declan Donnellan a Chekhov International Festival and Cheek By Jowl production, on tour
  • Richard III and The Comedy of Errors directed by Edward Hall: both Propeller productions, on tour
  • The Big Fellah directed by Max Stafford-Clark: an Out of Joint and Lyric Hammersmith production on tour

Best Design

  • Happy Days designed by Lizzie Clachan, lighting design by Natasha Chivers: A Sheffield Theatres production at Sheffield Studio
  • 'Tis Pity She's a Whore designed by Mike Britton, lighting design by Oliver Fenwick: a West Yorkshire Playhouse production at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
  • The Duchess of Malfi designed by Ruth Sutcliffe, lighting design by Philip Gladwell; a Royal and Derngate, Northampton production at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton

Best Director

  • Erica Wyman for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Sheffield Theatres and Northern Stage co-production at Sheffield Theatres and Northern Stage.
  • Muriel Romanes for Age of Arousal: a co-production between Stellar Quines and the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, on tour
  • Michael Sheen and Bill Mitchell for The Passion a National Theatre Wales/Wild Works co-production

Best Performance in a Musical

  • Tony Hasnath for The Jungle Book: at Lyric Theatre, Belfast
  • Jemima Rooper for Me and My Girl: A Sheffield Theatres production at the Crucible, Sheffield
  • Bertie Carvel for Matilda at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Outstanding Achievement in Dance

  • New Adventures for an outstanding revision of Cinderella
  • Luca Silvestrini's Protein Dance for LOL - an ingenious multi-media blending of choreography with text.
  • Hofesh Shechter's Political Mother - a powerful piece by a choreographer on a controversial theme.

Outstanding Achievement in Opera

  • Opera North for the variety of its repertoire this season
  • Music Theatre Wales for its production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek
  • Gerald Finley for his performance as Hans Sachs in Glyndebourne Festival's production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Theatre Awards UK will be presented at a lunchtime ceremony at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, on Sunday 30th October 2011. For the first time the TMA's Management Awards will be presented at the same ceremony and the winners of the five awards will be announced on the day.

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