Award Winning Success for Nantwich Players
Thu 18 July 2019
Nantwich Players have had another successful awards season scooping no less than 17 Awards for their Main House and festival productions this year!
Its been a big year for Nantwich players. This has been the first year of producing no less than 11 productions in a single year at our beautiful little theatre in the heart of Nantwich. We have seen such a varied season of exciting plays ranging from ‘A Bunch of Amateurs’, ‘Breaking the Code’, ‘The Secret Garden’, ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ and ‘The Ladykillers’. Our Winter Mini Season in February contained no less than 4 productions, ‘The Laramie Project’, ‘The Hollow Crown’, ‘Albert’ and ‘Edgar & Annabel’.
Not forgetting our wonderful Youth Theatre who pulled out all the stops in their fantastic production of Millers classic ‘The Crucible’ in March.
This season also saw the introduction of our new Studio Theatre, who brought us 4 new and exciting studio pieces including ‘Dinner’, ‘it’s a Wonderful Life’ (The Radio Play), the one act plays ‘Albert’ and ‘Edgar and Annabel’ and finally ‘The River’.
It’s been a Busy year for us, and finally (because we clearly were not busy enough!) we have been touring the county with our Award-winning Festival entry ‘Edgar and Annabel’ who managed to clinch the Regional and Northern Champion Titles, Became AETF All England Finalists and NDFA Finalists. We don’t do things by half around here!
So, to the awards…...
We are always so proud of all our members and the work they put into all our productions! So many unsung heroes, but today we celebrate those who have won the trophies and acknowledge the level of excellence that we have all come to know of our fabulous Nantwich Players family.
And the winners are……
NSDA
Certificates of Achievement
1. Avril Allman, Michelle Boden, Moira Hignett, and Anne-Marie Scragg for teamwork in Ladies' Day.
2. Olive Holding for skilful handling of the robin puppet in The Secret Garden.
Rising Star Award
Nominations:
Olive Holding Vickie Martin The Thrill of Love
Matthew Medovnikov Rev Hale The Crucible
Alex Lonsdale Rev Parris The Crucible
Winner: Alex Lonsdale Rev Parris The Crucible
Alan Price Memorial Trophy Best Male Comedy Performance
Nominations: Simon Porter Nigel A Bunch of Amateurs
Brian Roberts Memorial Trophy Best Male Supporting Performance
Nominations: Jerry Park Barry Ladies Day
Harry Horton Memorial Trophy Best Performance Female
Nomination: Sian Weedon Ruth Ellis The Thrill of Love
Malcolm Edwards Memorial Trophy Best Performance Male
Nominations:
Colin Johnston Alan Turing Breaking the Code
David Bryan Jefferson Steel A Bunch of Amateurs
Winner: Colin Johnston Alan Turing Breaking the Code
John Fox Memorial Award (Special Adjudicators Award)
Nomination: Olive Holding Handling the robin puppet Secret Garden
Irene Garside Memorial Trophy Best Director
Winner: Chris Ridge Breaking the Code
Keith Williams Trophy for the play placed second
The Secret Garden directed by Michaela Warrilow
John Goldsmith Memorial Trophy for the winning play of the festival
Breaking the Code directed by Chris Ridge
CTG
Poster
Beauty queen of Leenane Poster - Commendation
Youth and Panto
The Barry Phillips Award - Best Young Actor (Male)
Winner: Edward Rolfe - Danforth The Crucible
The Rebecca Seymour Award - Best Young Actor (Female)
Nomination: Orlanda Jones - Abigail Williams The Crucible
Winner: Mollie Pickering - Tituba The Crucible
Best Lighting and Sound
Winner: The Crucible
Best Costume
Nomination: The Crucible
Best Director
Nomination: Anne-Marie Scragg The Crucible
Best Youth Production
Winner: The Crucible
Senior Productions
Best Actor under 18 in a Senior Production
Nomination: Nathan Betteridge - Colin Craven Secret Garden
The Geoffrey Croxford Cup for Best Supporting Male Actor
Nomination: John Mackay – Dillwyn Knox Breaking the Code
The Ron Gleave Shield for Best Lighting and Sound
Nomination: Breaking the Code
The Bramhall Cup for Best Set Presentation
Nomination: Breaking the Code
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Vicky Lane Trophy for Dramatic Achievement
Nomination: Breaking the Code
The David Lane Cup for Best Male Actor
Winner: Colin Johnston – Alan Turing in Breaking the Code
The Allan Warburton Cup for Best Female Actor
Nomination: Megan Goode – Maureen The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Chronicle Cup for Best Director
Nomination: Chris Ridge Breaking the Code
The John F Blackburn Award for Best Overall Production
Winner: Breaking the Code
Festivals
Cheshire one act Festival
Best Actor
Nomination: Danny Froud – Nico Albert
Winner: Harry Johnson- Nick Edgar and Annabel
Best Actress
Winner: Bethany Froud – Marianne Edgar and Annabel
Best Production Trophy
Winner: Edgar and Annabel
AETF Trophy Winner
Winner: Edgar and Annabel
AETF Northern Finals
Best Actor
Nomination: Harry Johnson – Nick Edgar and Annabel
Best Actress
Winner: Bethany Froud – Marianne Edgar and Annabel
The Silver Stag: Northern Champions Trophy.
Winner: Edgar and Annabel
AETF All England Grand Final
Adjudicators Award
Nomination: Bethany Froud and Harry Johnson – Marianne and Nick Edgar and Annabel
Congratulations to all who were nominated and to our winners!
Here is to another wonderful year in 2019/20!