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CRITICS' AWARDS FOR THEATRE IN SCOTLAND
2008-09 Shortlist
On May 19, 2009, following an all-day meeting at the Ruag function suite downstairs from the Rhoderick Dhu bar in Glasgow, the CATS judges announced the following shortlists for the ten categories of the 2008-09 awards. There is a link to each company's website.
FOR BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:
Andy Clark, Darren, The Ching Room, A Play, a Pie and a Pint/Traverse Theatre
Billy Mack, Morris Magellan, The Sound of My Voice, Citizens Theatre
Billy Seymour, schoolboy, Pornography, Traverse Theatre/Birmingham Rep
Matthew Zajac, The Tailor of Inverness, Dogstar Theatre
FOR BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:
Cora Bissett, Helena, Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
Irene Macdougall, Martha, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dundee Rep
Gabriel Quigley, Oracle and Mae, Bliss/Mud, Tron Theatre
Gerda Stevenson, The Lasses, O, Rowan Tree Theatre
FOR BEST DIRECTOR:
James Brining, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dundee Rep
David Leddy, Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens Theatre
Matthew Lenton, Interiors, Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre
Jemima Levick, Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
FOR BEST ENSEMBLE:
Architecting, The TEAM/National Theatre of Scotland
Cockroach, Traverse Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland
The Drawer Boy, Tron Theatre
Interiors, Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre
FOR BEST NEW PLAY:
David Greig/Gordon McIntyre, Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
Sam Holcroft, Cockroach, Traverse Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland
David Leddy, Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens Theatre
Simon Stephens, Pornography, Traverse Theatre/Birmingham Rep
FOR BEST PRODUCTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE:
Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
Liar, TAG/Sounds of Progress
Peter Pan, Visible Fictions/Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis
Rudolf, Andy Manley/MacRobert
FOR BEST DESIGN:
Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds (design), Simon Wilkinson (lighting), Anna Scatola (puppet maker), Slick, Vox Motus/Tron Theatre
Stewart Laing, Les Parents Terribles, Dundee Rep
Alex Lowde (set) and Chris Davey (lighting), Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
Jason Southgate (set) and Graham Sutherland (lighting), The Sound of My Voice, Citizens Theatre
FOR BEST USE OF MUSIC AND SOUND:
Seylan Baxter, Lillias Kinsman-Blake and Rachel Newton, The Lasses, O, Rowan Tree Theatre
Paddy Cunneen, Waltz of the Cold Wind, A Play, a Pie and a Pint
David Paul Jones and Zoey Van Goey, Dolls, Hush Productions/National Theatre of Scotland
Gordon McIntyre, Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
FOR BEST TECHNICAL PRESENTATION:
4.48 Psychosis, Sweetscar/Cumbernauld Theatre/Tramway
Peeping at Bosch, Mischief La Bas/National Theatre of Scotland/Tramway
Slick, Vox Motus/Tron Theatre
Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens Theatre
FOR BEST PRODUCTION:
Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
Interiors, Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre
Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens Theatre
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dundee Rep
