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Mick Hughes Winner of First TMA Lighting Design Award
Dame Judi Dench presented Bill Kenwright with the TMA Special Award for Individual Achievement at yesterday evening's TMA (Theatrical Management Association) Theatre Awards Presentation held at Hampstead Theatre, London.
Brenda Blethyn's Award for Best Performance in a Play completed a hat trick for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Kate O'Flynn won Best Supporting Performance in a Play for her portrayal of Mary Tilford in The Children's Hour, with the same production winning Mick Hughes the very first TMA Award for Best Lighting Design supported by the Association of Lighting Designers.
Best Performance in a Musical went to Brian Conley for Chichester Festival Theatre's The Music Man, presenting his Award was Summer Strallen, currently starring in The Sound of Music at the London Palladium. Martin Ball took home the Best Supporting Performance in a Musical Award for his role as Mr Banks in the touring production of Mary Poppins.
Other winners included Michael Boyd, Best Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Histories. Best New Play went to Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters at Live Theatre, Newcastle while The National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch won Best Touring Production. Liverpool Playhouse's Once Upon A Time At The Adelphi won Best Musical Production, Best Set Design went to Mike Britton for Lady From The Sea at Birmingham Rep. Best Show for Children and Young People went to Marcus Romer's adaptation of Anne Cassidy's novel Looking For JJ.
Principal sponsors of the event, The Stage Newspaper, gave their Award for Special Achievement in Regional Theatre to Latitude Festival, for "its ability to attract a broad range of age groups - in rather impressive numbers - to come and see performances ranging from hard-hitting plays, to dancing on a lake, to an RSC zombie thriller."
Achievement in Dance went to Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita for Mischief, and Achievement in Opera was awarded to Opera North for its summer Shakespeare season of Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo et Juliette.
In picture: Bill Kenwright received his Special Award from Dame Judi Dench and Lighting Design Award winner Mick Hughes (right) receives his award from Mark Jonathan.
Full List of TMA Theatre Awards 2008 Winners:
Best Performance in a Play
Brenda Blethyn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Glass Menagerie
Best Supporting Performance in a Play
Kate O'Flynn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Children's HouR
Best Performance in a Musical
Brian Conley for The Music Man at Chichester Festival Theatre
Best SupportING Performance in a Musical
Martin Ball for Mary Poppins on tour
Best Director
Michael Boyd for The Histories at RSC Stratford-Upon-Avon
Best Touring Production
National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch
Best Musical PrODUCTION
Once Upon A Time at the Adelphi at the Playhouse, Liverpool
Best New Play
The PitmEn Painters by Lee Hall at Live Theatre, Newcastle
Best Set Design
Mike Britton for Lady from the Sea at Birmingham Rep
Best Lighting Design
The Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Children's Hour designed by Mick Hughes
Best Show for Children and Young People
Looking for JJ, adapted from Anne Cassidy's novel by Marcus Romer, Pilot Theatre in association with York Theatre Royal and Unicorn Theatre on tour
ACHIEVEMENT IN DANCE
Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita for Mischief, an enormously playful collage of movement, music and visual arts designed to delight the whole family.
ACHIEVEMENT IN OPERA
Opera North for its summer Shakespeare season of MACBETH, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and ROMEO ET JULIETTE
THE STAGE AWARD FOR SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN REGIONAL THEATRE
Latitude Festival
THE SPECIAL AWARD FOR INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT
Bill Kenwright
27th October 2008
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