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Scotland leads the field at Stage TMA Theatre Awards

Published Wednesday 19 September 2007 at 15:20 by Alistair Smith

Scottish theatre is leading the way at this year’s Theatrical Management Association Theatre Awards with the National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum, Dundee Rep, Tag Theatre Company and Glasgow Citizens all featuring.

Also faring well in the nominations, announced this week, was the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, which received three nominations.

The awards, which are sponsored by The Stage, will be held on Sunday, October 21 at Hampstead Theatre and will be hosted by Kwame Kwei-Armah.

Nominations for The Stage Award for Special Achievement in Regional Theatre, presented as part of the TMA Awards, will be announced in next week’s paper.

The nominations in full are:

Best Performance in a Play

• Kate Dickie for National Theatre of Scotland’s Aalst on tour
• Barbara Marten for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company Manchester’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
• Patrick Stewart for Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre, produced in association with Duncan C Weldon and Paul Elliot

Best Supporting Performance in a Play

• Meg Fraser for All My Sons at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
• Marion Bailey for Shared Experience’s Kindertransport on tour
• Kirsty Bushell for Headlong Theatre, Citizen’s Theatre and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith’s Angels in America on tour

Best Performance in a Musical

• Ben Richards for Ambassador Theatre Group and Donmar Warehouse’s Guys and Dolls on tour
• Henry Goodman for Sheffield Theatres’ Fiddler on the Roof at the Crucible
• Nicholas Pound for Man of La Mancha at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh

Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical

• Julie-Alanah Brighten for Merrily We Roll Along at Derby Playhouse
• Anne Louise Ross for Sunshine on Leith at Dundee Rep
• Alice Redmond for Tracy Beaker Gets Real on tour

Best Musical Production

• Follies at Royal and Derngate, Northampton
• Martin Guerre at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury
• Sunshine on Leith at Dundee Rep

Best Touring Production

• The National Theatre’s The Seafarer
• Cheek by Jowl’s Three Sisters
• National Theatre of Scotland’s The Wonderful World of Dissocia

Best Director

• Daniel Kramer for Angels in America on tour
• Tim Supple for A Midsummer Night’s Dream on tour
• Rachel O’Riordan for Much Ado About Nothing at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Best New Play

• That Face by Polly Stenham at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court
• Monster by Duncan Macmillan for The Royal Exchange Theatre Company, Manchester
• Taking Care of Baby by Dennis Kelly for Hampstead Theatre and Birmingham Rep

Best Design

• Chloe Lamford for Small Miracle at the Mercury, Colchester
• Ferdia Murphy for Dancing at Lughnasa at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
• Miriam Beuther for Long Time Dead at the Drum, Plymouth

Best Show for Children and Young People

• Watership Down on tour
• Citizens’ Theatre and Tag Theatre Company’s Yellow (The Ballad of Leila and Lee)
• Pinnochio at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Achievement in Opera

• Opera North’s Peter Grimes
• Glydebourne Touring Opera’s The Turn of the Screw
• Mark Wigglesworth for conducting Welsh National Opera’s Tristan and Isolde

Achievement in Dance

Angela Towler for Rambert Dance Company’s Pond Way and other performances

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