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Dateline: 18th September, 2002

Barclays 2002 Nominees

The nominations for the Barclays Theatre Awards 2002, presented by the Theatrical Management Association, are announced. These prestigious UK awards are for excellence in all aspects of regional theatre. Theatres throughout the UK have participated in the Awards and more than 1,000 productions have been seen.

This year's Awards Presentation will be held on Sunday October 13 at the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House, London at 5.30pm and will be hosted by the comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig.

Best Actress

• Amanda Donohoe for The Royal Exchange Theatre Company's HEDDA GABLER
• Kathryn Howden for VICTORY, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh
• Diana Quick for English Touring Theatre's GHOSTS

• Adrian Dunbar for CONVERSATIONS ON A HOMECOMING at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
• Pete Postlethwaite for SCARAMOUCHE JONES, Rebbeck Penny and Bristol Old Vic on tour
• Corin Redgrave for THE BROWNING VERSION at Derby Playhouse

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Dorothy Atkinson for EDEN END at West Yorkshire Playhouse
• Mairead McKinley for Shared Experience Theatre's THE CLEARING on tour
• Una McLean for Borderline Theatre's PERFECT DAYS at The Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow and on tour

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Richard Attlee for Shared Experience Theatre's THE CLEARING on tour
• Michael Begley for HOBSON'S CHOICE, produced by Jenny King for The Touring Consortium, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Theatre Royal, Plymouth on tour
• Jimmy Chisholm for AMADEUS at Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Best Director

• Lucy Bailey for STAIRS TO THE ROOF, a Chichester Festival Theatre production at the Minerva Theatre
• Sean Holmes for COMEDIANS, Oxford Stage Company by arrangement with David Aukin for ACT Productions and in association with the Northcott Theatre, Exeter
• Emma Rice for Knee High Theatre's THE RED SHOES on tour

Best Designer

• Imogen Clöet for NOIR, Northern Stage Ensemble and Live Theatre at Newcastle Playhouse
• Simon Higlett for ELIZABETH REX at Birmingham Repertory Theatre produced in association with Duncan C. Weldon and Paul Elliott for Triumph Entertainment Ltd, and for Nuffield Theatre Southampton's THREE SISTERS in association with Theatre Royal Bath Productions on tour
• Philip Whitcomb for LOVE IN A MAZE, a Watermill, West Berkshire Playhouse production.

Best New Play

• GAGARIN WAY by Gregory Burke, Traverse Theatre Company in association with the National Theatre Studio on tour
• MOTHER CLAP'S MOLLY HOUSE, a play with songs by Mark Ravenhill with music by Matthew Scott, National Theatre on tour
• TINY DYNAMITE by Abi Morgan Paines Plough and Frantic Assembly with Contact, Manchester on tour

The Barclays Award for the Best Touring Production

• ROSE RAGE adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI plays by Edward Hall and Roger Warren, a Watermill West Berkshire Playhouse production
• Nuffield Theater Southhampton's THREE SISTERS by Anton Chekhov, translated by Ronald Hingley, presented in association with Theatre Royal Bath Productions
• THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov, English version by Tom Stoppard, Dundee Rep Theatre Company on tour

Best Musical

• FIDDLER ON THE ROOF book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, produced on the New York stage by Harold Prince, original New York stage production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, a Watermill, West Berkshire Playhouse production
• Sheffield Theatre's HIGH SOCIETY music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Arthur Kopit, additional lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, based on the play The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry, also based on The Turner Entertainment Co. Motion Picture High Society. Original Broadway production produced by: Lauren Mitchell and Robert Gailus, Hal Luftig and Richard Samson, Dodger Endemol Theatricals in Association with Bill Haber. Originally produced by American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco CA. Carey Perloff, Artistic Director, Heather Kirchen, Managing Director at the Crucible
• Rodger's and Hart's ON YOUR TOES music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, book by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger ltd on behalf of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatre Library of New York at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre

• Company of Angels' HANNAH AND HANNA by John Retallack at the Battersea Arts Centre
• LIFEBOAT by Nicola McCartney, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh on tour
• RED, RED SHOES by Charles Way inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes, a Unicorn production in association with The Place on tour

The Barclays Award for the Most Welcoming Theatre

• The Byre Theatre of St Andrew's
• Wolverhampton Grand Theatre
• Theatre by the Lake, Keswick

Outstanding Achievement in Opera

• Mark Elder and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for EURYANTHE at Glyndebourne
• Opera North for ALBERT HERRING
• Scottish Opera for DIE WALKÜRE and SIEGFRIED

Outstanding Achievement in Dance

• Thomas Edur and Agnes Oaks of English National Ballet, the country's leading classical partnership brilliantly illustrated this year
• Christopher Hampson for DOUBLE CONCERTO, an outstanding new ballet in a fine year for repertory at English National Ballet
• Royal Ballet Sinfonia for their playing of scores for ballet throughout the year

Following the Arts Council of England's Eclipse Report on strategies for combating racism in theatre, the Barclays Theatre Awards are proud to introduce the new Eclipse Award to recognise an organisation or individual whose work furthers the aims of the Report. Applications are now being invited for the Eclipse Award and all entries will be considered by a panel of judges appointed by the Theatrical Management Association. The winner will be announced at the Barclays Awards Presentation.

Barclays is the principal sponsor of regional theatre in the UK. Through the Barclays Theatre Awards and the award-winning Barclays Stage Partners scheme, Barclays has worked to ensure that the best of British theatre receives wide recognition and is brought to the largest possible audience. Through these sponsorships Barclays has enabled almost 2 million people across the UK to see some of Britain's best creative work. Barclays is continuing this strong commitment to the arts and to the aim of opening up access to new and varied audiences through its national arts programme, Invest and Inspire. Through this two year sponsorship, Barclays is working with the Royal National Theatre, The British Museum, The National Gallery and Tate Britain to bring the best of the arts in Britain to new and inclusive audiences.

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