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Dateline: 18th March, 2010
Broadsides' Rutter Wins Shakespeare Award Northern Broadsides' artistic director Barrie Rutter has been awarded the prestigious Pragnell Shakespeare Birthday Award for 2010. The annual, international, award is presented to an individual or company for their outstanding achievement in extending the appreciation and enjoyment of the works of William Shakespeare or in the general advancement of Shakespearian knowledge and understanding. Previous award winners have included Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, and Peter Brook. This international award, funded by George Pragnell Limited of Stratford-upon-Avon, is presented annually on the occasion of the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations luncheon in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Anyone working in any field of Shakespearian endeavour, including theatre, criticism, or Shakespearian scholarship is eligible. An individual who has achieved notable success in this field in the past year or so qualifies or the award can be made in recognition of sustained achievements.
Over the last twenty years Rutter and Northern Broadsides have tour extensively around the UK over 27 productions of Shakespeare including the highly acclaimed production of Othello last year featuring Lenny Henry.
Barrie Rutter was born in Hull and since leaving school in 1964 his acting career has stretched from Hamburg to Helsinki, Bradford to Beijing and includes film, television and radio. His theatre work includes Henry IV, Henry V, Coriolanus and The Taming of the Shrew for the Royal Shakespeare Company; and The Mysteries, The Crucible, Guys and Dolls, The Oresteia, The Rivals, Animal Farm, Martine and The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus for the Royal National Theatre. Formed in 1992, Northern Broadsides is a multi-award winning touring company based in the historic Dean Clough Mill in Halifax, West Yorkshire. It performs Shakespeare and classical texts with an innovative, popular and regional style, often in unconventional locations such as The Tower of London, cattle markets, churches, indoor riding stables, Victorian mills. "I am absolutely thrilled to accept the award and honoured to join such a wonderfully creative group of artists who have had the pleasure of winning this prestigious award," he said." My thanks go to the committee and also to the many people who have helped Broadsides create the great bard’s works over the last twenty years."
Nicolas Walsh, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations Committee added, “Barrie has such an immense reputation in British Theatre for his Shakespearean work with both the RSC and especially Northern Broadsides which he formed nearly 20 years ago. Through Broadsides he has made Shakespeare accessible to audiences who might have not had the chance to see the great writer's work before and also changed how he is heard. He is a worthy winner of the award."
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