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M.E.N Theatre award winners

December 5, 2007

The votes are in and the trophies have been awarded, following the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards ceremony at the Midland Hotel in Manchester today.

Special guests, including John Henshall and comedian David Spikey added to the local flavour of the event, which has been running for 26 years now. Always a highlight of the theatrical calendar, this event celebrates the best in Manchester theatre.

It also puts this city on the map, as the sheer variety on offer in any one month is highlighted within the nominations. Did your favourites win? With many of the categories hotly contested, it was close. Have a look at the runners and riders in our previous news story.

But the winners are:

Best Musical: The Producers (pictured left)

Best Design: Henry V

Best Performance In A Visiting Production: Cory English for The Producers

Best Visiting Production: The Seafarer

Best International Production: Monkey: Journey To The West

Best Performance In A Supporting Role: Eamonn Owens for The Flags

Best Production: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Library Theatre)

Best Actor: Elliot Cowan- Henry V

Best Actress: Phillipa Peake- Private Lives

Best Dance: The Three Musketeers

Best Family Show: James And The Giant Peach (Bolton Octagon)

Alpha Award

Alpha Airport Shopping sponsor a category designed to encourage new and up and coming talent with financial support. In the past, it has gone to help young actors and to the 24:7 Festival. This year’s recipient was Studio Salford for their consistent championing of the best and most interesting fringe theatre in the city.

Horniman Award

One hundred years ago this year, Annie Horniman changed the face of British theatre, establishing the first-ever repertory theatre company in this country at the Midland Hotel, where the tea heiress would hold court in the bar, smoking like a chimney and generally outraging the good folk of Manchester. Out of the repertory theatre movement has emerged many of this country’s finest actors and actresses, which is why the Theatre Awards panel decided to name this special award for people or institutions who have made a unique contribution to theatre in this area. This year’s recipient of the Horniman Award, then, is Caroline Clegg (pictured left) whose Feelgood Theatre Productions have put a new spin on the rep. tradition and have certainly established a wonderful new precedent, with their marvellous outdoor shows in Heaton Park.

Best New Play: And Did Those Feet (Bolton Octagon)

Best Opera: Roberto Devereux

Special Entertainment Award: The Pianist

For pictures and comments from winners and guests, please visit the Manchester Evening News website - www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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