2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards
The 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 25 November 2012.[1] The shortlist was revealed on 12 November 2012[2] and the longlist on 29 October 2012.[3]
Winners, shortlist and longlist
= winner
Best Play
- Constellations by Nick Payne (Royal Court Upstairs)
- Love and Information by Caryl Churchill (Royal Court Downstairs)
- This House by James Graham (National’s Cottesloe)
Longlisted
- Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney (Royal Court Upstairs)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens (National’s Cottesloe)
- Jumpy by April De Angelis (Royal Court Downstairs and Duke of York)
- The Last of the Duchess by Nicholas Wright (Hampstead)
- Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett (Royal Court Downstairs)
- Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute (Almeida)
- South Downs by David Hare (Chichester Minerva and the Harold Pinter)
- The Witness by Vivienne Franzmann (Royal Court Upstairs)
Best Director
- Nicholas Hytner for Timon of Athens (National’s Olivier)
- Carrie Cracknell for A Doll’s House (Young Vic)
- James Macdonald for Love and Information (Royal Court Downstairs)
- Ian Rickson for Hamlet (Young Vic)
Longlisted
- Benedict Andrews for Three Sisters (Young Vic)
- Lucy Bailey for Uncle Vanya (The Print Room)
- Tom Cairns for Scenes from an Execution (National’s Lyttelton)
- Marianne Elliott for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (National’s Cottesloe)
- Polly Findlay for Antigone (National’s Lyttelton)
- Sean Foley for The Ladykillers (Gielgud)
- Jeremy Herrin for This House (National’s Cottesloe)
- Jonathan Kent for Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival and Adelphi)
- Roger Michell for Farewell to the Theatre (Hampstead)
- Lindsay Posner for Noises Off (Old Vic and Novello)
- Josie Rourke for The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse)
- Lyndsey Turner for Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Donmar Warehouse)
Best Actor
- Simon Russell Beale, Collaborators (National’s Cottesloe and Olivier)
- Charles Edwards, The King's Speech (Wyndham’s) and This House (National’s Cottesloe)
- Adrian Lester, Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre)
- Luke Treadaway, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (National Cottesloe)
Longlisted
- Rupert Everett, The Judas Kiss (Hampstead)
- Laurence Fox, Our Boys (Duchess)
- David Haig, The Madness of George III (Theatre Royal Bath and Apollo)
- Douglas Hodge, Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar Warehouse)
- Alex Jennings, Collaborators (National’s Cottesloe and Olivier)
- Rory Kinnear, The Last of the Haussmans (National’s Lyttelton)
- Simon Paisley Day, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe)
- Eddie Redmayne, Richard II (Donmar Warehouse)
- Adrian Scarborough, Hedda Gabler (Old Vic)
- Michael Sheen, Hamlet (Young Vic)
- Scott Shepherd, Gatz (Elevator Repair Service at Noël Coward)
- David Suchet, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Apollo)
Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress
- Hattie Morahan, A Doll’s House (Young Vic)
- Eileen Atkins, All That Fall (Jermyn Street)
- Cate Blanchett, Big and Small (Sydney Theatre Company for Barbican)
- Laurie Metcalf, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Apollo)
Longlisted
- Pippa Bennett-Warner, The Witness (Royal Court Upstairs)
- Eve Best, The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic)
- Anna Chancellor, The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead)
- Anne-Marie Duff, Berenice (Donmar Warehouse)
- Mariah Gale, Three Sisters (Young Vic)
- Tamsin Greig, Jumpy (Royal Court Downstairs and Duke of York’s)
- Sally Hawkins, Constellations (Royal Court Upstairs)
- Martina Laird, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (National’s Cottesloe)
- Helen McCrory, The Last of the Haussmans (National’s Lyttelton)
- Joely Richardson, The Lady from the Sea (Kingston’s Rose Theatre)
- Sheridan Smith, Hedda Gabler (Old Vic)
- Imelda Staunton, Sweeney Todd (Chichester and Adelphi)
Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical
- Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival and Adelphi)
- Singin’ In the Rain (Chichester Festival and Palace Theatre)
- Swallows and Amazons (A Bristol Old Vic production, presented by the National Theatre and The Children’s Touring Partnership at the Vaudeville Theatre)
Longlisted
- Floyd Collins (Southwark Playhouse)
- Mack & Mabel (Southwark Playhouse)
- Top Hat (Aldwych)
Best Design
- Soutra Gilmour, Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar Warehouse) and Antigone (National’s Olivier)
- Miriam Buether, Wild Swans (A Young Vic/American Repertory Theatre/Actors Touring Company co-production)
- Ian MacNeil, A Doll’s House (Young Vic)
Longlisted
- Hildegard Bechtler, Top Hat (Aldwych)
- Bunny Christie, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (National’s Cottesloe)
- Kevin Depinet, Detroit (National’s Cottesloe)
- Es Devlin, The Master and Margarita (Complicite at Barbican)
- Richard Kent, Richard II (Donmar Warehouse)
- Peter McKintosh, Noises Off (Old Vic)
- Vicki Mortimer, The Last of the Haussmans (National’s Lyttelton)
- Lucy Osborne, The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse)
- Michael Taylor, The Ladykillers (Gielgud)
- Jamie Vartan, Misterman (National’s Lyttelton)
Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright
- Lolita Chakrabarti, Red Velvet (Tricycle)
- John Hodge, Collaborators (National’s Cottesloe)
- Tom Wells, Kitchen Sink (Bush)
Longlisted
- Stephen Beresford, The Last of the Haussmans (National’s Lyttelton)
- Ishy Din, Snookered (Bush Theatre and Oldham Coliseum Theatre co-production)
- Vickie Donoghue, Mudlarks (Bush)
- Nancy Harris, Our New Girl (Bush)
- Luke Norris, Goodbye to All That (Royal Court Upstairs)
- Nicholas Pierpan, You Can Still Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse)
- Tim Price, Salt, Root and Roe (Trafalgar Studios)
- Hayley Squires, Vera Vera Vera (Royal Court Upstairs and Theatre Local Peckham)
Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer
- Matthew Tennyson, Making Noise Quietly (Donmar Warehouse)
- Denise Gough, Our New Girl (Bush) and Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith)
- Abby Rakic-Platt, Vera Vera Vera (Royal Court Upstairs and Theatre Local Peckham)
Longlisted
- Jonathan Bailey, South Downs (Chichester Minerva and the Harold Pinter)
- David Fynn, She Stoops to Conquer (National’s Olivier)
- Cush Jumbo, She Stoops to Conquer (National’s Olivier)
- Joshua Williams, Shivered (Southwark Playhouse) and Love and Information (Royal Court Upstairs)
- Emi Wokoma, Soul Sister (Hackney Empire and Savoy)
Beyond Theatre Award
- Danny Boyle and his creative team, for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics
Lebedev Special Award
- Nicholas Hytner, for his dynamic directorship of the National Theatre
Editor’s Award
- David Hare, for his contribution to theatre
Burberry Award for Emerging Director
Moscow Art Theatre’s Golden Seagull Award
- Judi Dench, for her contribution to world theatre
Judges
- Henry Hitchings (London Evening Standard)
- Georgina Brown (Mail on Sunday)
- Susannah Clapp (The Observer)
- Libby Purves (The Times)
- Charles Spencer (The Daily Telegraph)
- Matt Wolf (The International Herald Tribune)
- Sarah Sands (London Evening Standard)
- Evgeny Lebedev (London Evening Standard)
References
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