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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 16:38:16 GMT
The shortlist for the 64th Evening Standard Theatre Awards is announced today, featuring the biggest and brightest names on the London stage.
From fresh talent to A-list stars, read on for the full shortlist as we reveal who is in the running this year.
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston (Network)
Ralph Fiennes (Antony and Cleopatra)
Ian McKellen (King Lear)
Colin Morgan (Translations)
Kyle Soller (The Inheritance)
Best Actress
Laura Linney (My Name Is Lucy Barton)
Carey Mulligan (Girls and Boys)
Cecilia Noble (Nine Night)
Sophie Okonedo (Antony and Cleopatra)
Lia Williams (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Best Play
Home, I’m Darling
The Inheritance
John Annie Baker
The Lehman Trilogy
The Writer
Best Director
Stephen Daldry (The Inheritance)
Marianne Elliott (Company)
Robert Hastie (The York Realist) Phyllida Lloyd (Tina)
Ian Rickson (Translations)
Best Musical
Caroline, or Change
Company
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Fun Home
Hamilton
Best Musical Performance
Sharon D Clarke (Caroline, or Change)
Rosalie Craig (Company)
Arinzé Kene (Misty)
Kelli O’Hara (The King and I)
Adrienne Warren (Tina)
Best Design
Miriam Buether (The Jungle)
Bunny Christie (Company)
Es Devlin (Girls and Boys)
Rae Smith (Translations)
Jan Versweyveld (Network)
Most Promising Playwright
Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm (Br’er Cotton)
Natasha Gordon (Nine Night)
Francis Turnly (The Great Wave)
Emerging Talent Award
Rona Morison (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Debris Stevenson (Poet in da Corner)
Chris Walley (The Lieutenant of Inishmore)
Roy Alexander Weise (Nine Night/Br’er Cotton)
Jamael Westman (Hamilton)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 16:48:23 GMT
How is Jan Versweyveld getting a nomination for best set design when it's the same set he always designs?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 14:28:45 GMT
How is Jan Versweyveld getting a nomination for best set design when it's the same set he always designs? And how is Home, I’m Darling considered best play amongst the other strong contenders? |
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Oct 30, 2018 15:22:25 GMT
How is Jan Versweyveld getting a nomination for best set design when it's the same set he always designs? And how is Home, I’m Darling considered best play amongst the other strong contenders? It was widely praised and liked. My personal preference would be for The Writer to win though or, failing that, John. |
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Post by ellie1981 on Oct 30, 2018 16:10:41 GMT
I’m surprised Fun Home wasn’t nominated for Best Design.
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Post by peelee on Oct 30, 2018 17:33:32 GMT
I've seen hardly any of those plays, yet have liked much of what I have seen in the last year. So, for those un-nominated and not on this prize nomination list, don't worry — I was among people who probably did like you!
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Post by n1david on Nov 18, 2018 22:53:01 GMT
Winners:
Best actor
Ralph Fiennes for Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre
Best actress
Sophie Okonedo for Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre
Best director
Marianne Elliott for Company at the Gielgud Theatre
Best play
The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez, at the Young Vic and Noel Coward Theatre
Best musical
Company at the Gielgud Theatre
Best musical performance
Rosalie Craig for Company at the Gielgud Theatre
Best design
Miriam Buether for The Jungle at the Young Vic and the Playhouse Theatre
Most promising playwright
Natasha Gordon for Nine Night at the National Theatre
Emerging talent award
Jamael Westman for Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2018 23:04:11 GMT
Hello? Is that the police? Come quickly, Kyle Soller has just been robbed.
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Post by stuartmcd on Nov 18, 2018 23:05:17 GMT
Winners: Best actor Ralph Fiennes for Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre Best actress Sophie Okonedo for Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre Best director Marianne Elliott for Company at the Gielgud Theatre Best play The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez, at the Young Vic and Noel Coward Theatre Best musical Company at the Gielgud Theatre Best musical performance Rosalie Craig for Company at the Gielgud Theatre Best design Miriam Buether for The Jungle at the Young Vic and the Playhouse Theatre Most promising playwright Natasha Gordon for Nine Night at the National Theatre Emerging talent award Jamael Westman for Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre Didn’t Hamilton win best Musical? |
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Post by n1david on Nov 18, 2018 23:23:10 GMT
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Post by sf on Nov 18, 2018 23:57:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 2:04:25 GMT
Aw shame about Company not winning Musical and Design, but winning Director and Performance I can't really complain!
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Post by Rory on Nov 19, 2018 2:05:38 GMT
Hello? Is that the police? Come quickly, Kyle Soller has just been robbed. Yeah but it *is* the Evening Standard awards which seem to be a law unto themselves. I can't take them seriously ever since that ridiculous picture of Mr Lebedev lying draped on the floor in front of all the celebs like Imelda. And ever since Nicole won over Denise Gough. |
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Post by kathryn on Nov 19, 2018 8:02:52 GMT
The rule at the ES awards is that the most famous person who is able to turn up on the night will win.
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Post by lonlad on Nov 19, 2018 9:39:48 GMT
Well, Fiennes's win is pretty amazing given that Sir Ian is a great friend of the proprietor of the paper (!) -- but maybe that would have looked just TOO craven. And Okonedo much less well known than Laura Linney or Carey Mulligan, so I would say both A&C victories go against the Standard grain.
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Post by kathryn on Nov 19, 2018 10:29:05 GMT
Well, Fiennes's win is pretty amazing given that Sir Ian is a great friend of the proprietor of the paper (!) -- but maybe that would have looked just TOO craven. And Okonedo much less well known than Laura Linney or Carey Mulligan, so I would say both A&C victories go against the Standard grain. Were Sir Ian, Laura Linney, and Carey Mulligan actually there last night? |
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Post by n1david on Nov 19, 2018 13:06:50 GMT
Laura Linney and Sir Ian were there, as they're in the after show party pics ("in association with Harrods") along with those fine thespians Lady Kitty Spencer and Viscountess Weymouth, according to the Standard website.
Nice to see Vanessa R out on the town too (announcing an award, no less), given that the reports on The Inheritance thread say she hasn't been well enough to perform for days.
Side note: I see that The Stage silently corrected their winners' article this morning to show Hamilton as the winner of Best Musical. Still think it's a bit odd how they could get that so wrong...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 13:28:26 GMT
Side note: I see that The Stage silently corrected their winners' article this morning to show Hamilton as the winner of Best Musical. Still think it's a bit odd how they could get that so wrong... They've outsourced awards coverage to an external company. I think they're called Dunaway Beatty & Co. Or something like that. |
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Post by kathryn on Nov 19, 2018 23:25:28 GMT
Laura Linney and Sir Ian were there, as they're in the after show party pics ("in association with Harrods") along with those fine thespians Lady Kitty Spencer and Viscountess Weymouth, according to the Standard website. Huh. Maybe someone at the ES finally got fed up of the snark about their choices and decided not to be so predictable this year. |
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Post by nash16 on Nov 20, 2018 0:42:06 GMT
Well, the results of these were as predictable and hilarious as always...
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Post by dani on Nov 20, 2018 9:51:58 GMT
I am just catching up with these.
I'm not sure it was predictable that Sophie Okonedo and Ralph Fiennes would win for Antony and Cleopatra. If they'd gone for the predictable, as in most starry, surely it would have been Carey Mulligan and Ian McKellen. I wouldn't have chosen either of the winners, or McKellen or Mulligan, but that is hardly the point.
I can't see how anyone can object to Hamilton winning, or Jamael Westman. Nine Night likewise. An award for the design of The Jungle doesn't seem misplaced. Best play for the Inheritance might not be everyone's choice, but it is far from controversial.
Company deserved recognition, and the best director award seems as good a way as any to do it. Marianne Elliott is an under appreciated talent. I wouldn't have chosen Rosalie Craig for best musical performance, but it's not an outrage by any stretch of the imagination.
That leaves the Lebedev lifetime award, or whatever it's called, to Cameron Mackintosh, which may not be exciting, but is probably deserved.
In other words, there's nothing edgy here, and the glitz of the occasion is OTT and in some ways only loosely connected to theatre, but I can't see that the results were either very predictable or very hilarious.
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