CATS Secures 3-year Sponsorship From Mackintosh
The Mackintosh Foundation – a charity set up by theatre producer Cameron
Mackintosh to promote and develop theatrical, musical and dramatic arts – has
pledged £3,000 over the next three years towards the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS).
In addition, the CATS has
received donations of £500 a year until 2012 from technical services company
Northern Light, who will specifically support the award for Best Technical
Production, and advertising and design agency Guy Robertson Partnership, who
will sponsor the award for Best Actor. The ceremony will also be sponsored by
catering company Appetite Direct and arts and entertainments publication The List.
Now in its eighth year,
the event celebrates the actors, directors, playwrights and other artists who
have made the most thrilling contributions to Scottish theatre over the past
year and will be held for a second time at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh on Sunday 13
June at 3pm. The ceremony is open to the public with tickets priced at £15 including
live entertainment, drinks and light
refreshments.
Co-convenor of the CATS Awards,
Scotman critic Joyce McMillan, said: “We are delighted to have the support of the
Mackintosh Foundation, which will put the future of the CATS awards on a much
more secure footing. The aims of the Foundation in promoting and encouraging
theatre coincide exactly with those of the awards, and we are thrilled to be
associated with the Foundation in this way.”
Previous winners,
including The Wonderful World of Dissocia
(2005), Black Watch (2007), Blackbird (2007) and Peer Gynt (2008), have gone on to be
staged across the world to critical and public acclaim, while individuals such
as David Tennant, who won the Best Actor Award in 2005, have gone on achieve
national fame and recognition for their work.
