THE CHAPMAN KIP THEATRE AWARDS 2009!
| HACKMAN | posted 11 Nov 2009, 11:23 AM / edited 2 Dec 2009, 10:09 AM |
| THE CHAPMAN KIP THEATRE AWARDS 2009! From a New Zealand farm, to Eli's bedroom, to the gates of Heaven, Wellington has seen some extraordinary theatre in 2009. To celebrate HACKMAN is proud to present the annual Chapman Kip Theatre Awards! The Gala evening will celebrate all the fantastic moments of the 2009 theatre scene and highlight specific moments of magic from the over 100 plays that were produced during the year. The awards night will be hosted by the fabulous Heather O'Carroll and the sexy Toby Leach and will include acceptance speeches and spot prizes. HACKMAN will be hosting the ceremony at the revered BATS Theatre at 10pm on Friday the 4th of December. There will be drinks available at the PIT Bar and everyone is expected to DANCE! Entry by Koha. A skype booth will link you to Auckland where a similar event will be taking place. This will offer everyone the chance to catch up with their theatre friends electronically. (BE WARNED! The Aucklanders will already be boozed by the time your awards start.) If you would like to SPONSOR AN AWARD or donate a spot prize please contact Kip Chapman at kipchapman@gmail.com Please be aware that this event is in no way related to the awesome Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards and is purely designed for fun. Please also be aware that the judging will be slightly unfair. See you at the show! HACKMAN "Partying like it's 1999" since 2002 www.hackman.co.nz The Chapman Kip Theatre Awards 2009! POST YOUR NOMINATIONS NOW! Categories:
(Copy and paste the categories and write your picks in the forum below.) Good Luck everyone! Love HACKMAN! |
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| Michael Wray | posted 11 Nov 2009, 11:08 PM |
| I'll start then. Just a few nominations so far. I need to go back and check what happened this year (so may change the below noms once my memory has been jogged). The Award for Best Poster of the Year... Live at Six. Slick. Best Costume of the Year... I was going to go for The Brainless Brothers in Bedlam, but the combination of Ricky Dey and Yvette Parsons in Entertaining Mr Sloane is not something I'll forget in a hurry! Smallest Part of the Year... The detective in Once Upon a Time in Aro Valley - didn't even get a program credit for his 5 seconds. Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... That has to be Ms Paul Harrop in Postal. Best Accent of the Year... Nick Dunbar in Le Sud - was tempted to nominate his Gallic nymphomania under the medical condition category too. Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy... Tough one. Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play... Jean Sergent in A Most Outrageous Humbug - still find myself humming that haunting tune. |
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| Michael Wray | posted 11 Nov 2009, 11:25 PM |
| Does Toby Leach on crutches in Betrayal count as medical condition when it wasn't technically the character? | |
| Eleanor Bishop | posted 11 Nov 2009, 11:39 PM |
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| Angela Green | posted 12 Nov 2009, 12:43 PM / edited 12 Nov 2009, 03:35 PM |
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| Uther Dean | posted 12 Nov 2009, 03:03 PM |
| Best Break Up of the Year - The whole of Blood Wedding Best Entrance of the Year - Sophie Hambletron in Rudey Trudey The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year - Rose Guise in Animal Hour The Award for Best Poster of the Year - Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish Best Costume of the Year - Death in Charm is Not Enough or The Panda in Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish and Animal Hour Smallest Part of the Year - Ralph McCubbin Howell in Measure for Measure, he's only in the video trailer or Johnny Harrison in The Intricate Art of Actually Caring Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year - Natalie Medlock as Bob in A Song for Ugly Kids Best Accent of the Year - Erin Banks in The Clean House Best Weapon of the Year - Video editing in Live at Six The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year - Peter Haydn in The Raft or, bias as I am and if being a dog counts, Paul Waggott as Floyd in Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy - Uh... Andrew Foster? The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year - ViennaVerona by Three Spoon Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play - The cast of Bedlam Best Dancing in a Play - the opening of Measure for Measure |
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| Eleanor Bishop | posted 12 Nov 2009, 03:23 PM |
| I also support a nomination for Johnny Harrison for smallest part of the year for his performance in The Intricate Art of Actually Caring. Johnny gave an admirable performance via Facebook. His memory lives on at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1293701563&ref=ts. Become his friend! | |
| Michael Wray | posted 12 Nov 2009, 03:29 PM |
| But will he accept. And if so, spooky - you can still access Facebook when you're dead! | |
| Jackson Coe | posted 13 Nov 2009, 03:42 PM / edited 14 Nov 2009, 12:21 AM |
| For Smallest Role of the Year I would like to nominate Kent Robinson's Buttocks, which appeared all too briefly in Becoming the Courtesan. | |
| John Smythe | posted 14 Nov 2009, 09:52 AM / edited 14 Nov 2009, 02:52 PM |
| This is the 2009 theatre line-up (so far) for Wellington. It (hopefully) includes all the Fringe Theatre, Compleate Workes project, improv and non stand-up comedy fest productions reviewed in Theatreview - not forgetting 2 shows that opened too late for last year's awards (Cynthia's Christmas and Christmas Indoors) and 5 shows yet to open this year There are 115 shows in this list. (Please advise if anything is missing.) 2009 - A SPACE ODDITY at Newtown Community Centre 5 - STIR-FRIED SKETCH COMEDY at Paramount Theatre Foyer A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY at BATS A MIME TO KILL at BATS A MOST OUTRAGEOUS HUMBUG at Waimapihi Reserve A NIGHT WITH BEAU TYLER at Downstage Theatre A SONG FOR THE UGLY KIDS at BATS ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE at Circa Two ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL? at Tararua Tramping Club ANIMAL HOUR at Wellington Performing Arts Centre BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD at Kapiti College BECOMING THE COURTESAN - A REMARKABLE SEDUCTION at BATS BEDLAM at Basement Theatre, Te Whaea BETRAYAL at Circa One BIOGRAPHY OF MY SKIN at Downstage Theatre BLOOD WEDDING at Circa One BOOMERANG LEAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL FROM OUTER SPACE at Happy BREAKING THE 5TH WALL - OR WHAT IS HUMOUR? at BATS BUD at BATS BUDDHA BOY at BATS CHARM IS NOT ENOUGH at BATS CHRISTIE IN LOVE at Southern Cross CHRISTMAS INDOORS at BATS CINDERELLA at 4 Moncrieff St., Mt. Victoria COLLAPSING CREATION at Downstage Theatre COLONY! + GRIMM at Wellington Performing Arts Centre CONFESSIONS OF A DRAG QUEEN at BATS - opens 25 Nov CYNTHIA'S CHRISTMAS AT CIRCA at Circa Two DEATH AND THE DREAMLIFE OF ELEPHANTS at Bats DEATH BY CHOCOLATE at Dransfield House DESTINATION: DEATH at BATS DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT at Circa One - opens 14 Nov DOLORES at BATS DOUBLE PORTRAIT at NZ Portrait Gallery - opens 27 Nov DROWNING BIRD, PLUMMETING FISH at BATS DUET: FALLING IN LOVE...AGAIN + OFFICE FYI: A MUSICAL at Mary Newton Gallery ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE at Circa Two FAUST CHROMA at Gryphon FIREWORKS at Southern Cross FOUR FLAT WHITES IN ITALY at Circa One GAS at BATS - opens 24 Nov GOD OF CARNAGE at Circa One GOOD NIGHT - THE END at Downstage Theatre HANSEL AND GRETEL at BATS HATCH - OR THE PLIGHT OF THE PENGUINS at Circa Two HEDDA GABLER at BATS HENRY V at Studio 77 Amphitheatre HENRY VI PART 1 at Union Hall, VUW INSTRUCTIONS TO A DOUBLE at Mighty Mighty KEEP IT RURAL at BATS KIA ORA KHALID at Opera House KING RICHARD THE SECOND at Studio 77 KRESKINNED: THE NATURAL CANADIAN DATE DRUG at Happy LANTERN at BATS LE SUD at Downstage Theatre LIES & OTHER STORIES BEFORE BED at Southern Cross LIVE AT SIX at BATS LOST: SHADES at Happy MATES & LOVERS at BATS MOTHER LOVE at Gryphon MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE at Downstage NOT VACANT at BATS ONCE UPON A TIME IN ARO VALLEY at BATS OPHELIA THINKS HARDER at Gryphon OTHELLO POLYNESIA at Downstage Theatre PERICLES at Studio 77, VUW POLY-ZYGOTIC at BATS POST GAY at BATS POSTAL at BATS POWER AND PERSUASION at Philosophy House ROCK 'N' ROLL at Circa One RUDEY TRUDEY at Inverlochy Art School SEASONS at Capital E SERENDIPITY at BATS SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED at 4 Moncrieff St STARLIGHT EXPRESS at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf STEALING GAMES at Capital E STEEL BALLERINA at BATS STRANGE RESTING PLACES at Downstage Theatre SUITCASE at BATS TALK TO THE HAND - AN IMPROV PUPPET SHOW at Circa Two TE RADAR'S EATING THE DOG at BATS THE 39 STEPS at Circa One THE AFFAIR OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE at St James Theatre THE ALTRUISTS at BATS THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER at 4 Moncrieff St THE BLACKENING at BATS THE BURN at BATS THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE at Te Whaea THE CLEAN HOUSE at Circa One THE CONCHUS SEASON at BATS THE FROGS UNDER THE WATERFRONT at Meet at Mac's Brewery THE HISTORY OF CARDENIO at Studio 77 THE INTRICATE ART OF ACTUALLY CARING at Glover Park | Eli's Bedroom THE MANY OTHER LIVES OF MARIA MADNESS at Wellington Performing Arts Centre THE MINISTER'S SON at BATS THE MOUNTAIN at Katipo Cafe & Bar THE NAVIGATORS at Queens Wharf Square THE PIRADICALS at The Moorings, THE PRAGMATIC at Wellington Performing Arts Centre THE RAFT at Downstage Theatre THE SKYROCKETEERS OF JUSTICE VS THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE at BATS THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at Muritai School Yard THE VERTICAL HOUR at Circa One TICK, TICK... BOOM! at The Garden Club TITUS at WPAC - from 4 Dec TURBINE at Downstage Theatre TWO DAY PLAYS (NZ) - DRAFT TWO at BATS U GOT BUSH! at BATS VIENNA VERONA at BATS WELLINGSIN CITY at Fringe Bar WHERE ARE YOU MY ONLY ONE? at Circa Two WHERO'S NEW NET at Downstage Theatre WOLF'S LAIR at BATS WORDS APART at BATS YEAR OF THE RAT at Circa Two YOUNG AND HUNGRY 09 - WELLINGTON at BATS |
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| Nick Zwart | posted 14 Nov 2009, 11:10 AM |
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| Erin Banks | posted 16 Nov 2009, 01:00 PM / edited 1 Dec 2009, 12:32 PM |
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| Kate Prior | posted 16 Nov 2009, 09:14 PM / edited 16 Nov 2009, 09:15 PM |
| Best Costume: Yvette Parsons setting the scene for seduction in Entertaining Mr Sloane. | |
| Brianne Kerr | posted 17 Nov 2009, 02:33 PM |
| * Best Break up of the Year... Rowan Bettjeman and Erin Banks - A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY * Best Entrance of the Year... Debs Rea and her chicken fillets - SIT ON IT (Y&H 09) * Best Death of the Year... Jamie Burgess - BECOMING THE COURTESAN * Best Poster of the Year... MADE IN NZ - FOOTNOTE DANCE (the North & South Island Dancers - awesome!) * Best Costume of the Year... Karen Anslow (Paul Jenden) - BECOMING THE COURTESAN * Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... Natalie Medlock - A SONG FOR THE UGLY KIDS * Best Accent of the Year... Andrea Tutt (Russian) - WHERE ARE YOU MY ONLY ONE? * Best Weapon of the Year... Richard Dey - ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE * Best Pash of the Year... Richard Dey and Yvette Parsons - ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE * Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy... Mr Aaron Cortesi - GOODNIGHT THE END * Best Ensemble acting of the Year... SIT ON IT (Y&H 09) * Best Singing in a Play... Phil Vaughan - LIVE AT SIX * Best Dancing in a Play... Princess Te Puea Whioke - THE CONCHUS SEASON |
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| Nell Williams | posted 17 Nov 2009, 02:58 PM |
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| Jo OSullivan | posted 17 Nov 2009, 03:34 PM |
| The Award for Best Poster of the Year... CHARM IS NOT ENOUGH The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year.. Romeo and Juliet Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... CHARM IS NOT ENOUGH Jaci Gwaliasi |
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| Rachel Lenart | posted 17 Nov 2009, 11:30 PM |
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| Rachel Lenart | posted 18 Nov 2009, 12:07 AM |
| oops, have mis read best technical ***k as best technical ***t. My nomination relates to technical shit.. not the other. Sorry. | |
| Robin Kerr | posted 18 Nov 2009, 01:36 AM |
| Smallest Part of the Year - A Most Outrageous Humbug - The side of Edgar Allen Poe's personality that didn't do or say all that much Best Accent - Song For the Ugly Kids - Dan Williams - 'Giant Pen' Asian stereotype man. Best Dry - Animal Hour - Fiona McNamara/Simon Haren (depending on who could handle it) - the rather wet 'drying' through the drinking game at the end. Heard of corpsing, but vomiting anyone? Best Dancing - Charm is Not Enough - Sperm suited ensemble Best Entrance - Goodnight, The End - Aaron Cortesi - floor, roof, nautical ascent through picture frame - brilliant. Best Weapon - Strange Resting Places - Flour used to show the bombing of Monte Cassino Best Cross Gender Acting - The Blackening - Jack Shadbolt - presented onstage doubling as Jed Brophy's childhood sweetheart (initially laughable when assumed to be a poor staging choice but then revealed to be the sick and twisted truth) Best Technical F*ck Up - The Blackening - Jack Shadbolt/Design - 'You've fixed it!' (pointing to a clearly unfixed Go-Kart) Best Costume - The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Kate McGill/Emma Ransley - The Fat Prince Best Death - The Intricate Art of Actually Caring - The Pig and/or Johnny Harrison Best Poster - The Skyrocketeers of Justice vs. the Zombie Apocalypse Best Disability - Turbine - Tim Spite |
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| John Smythe | posted 18 Nov 2009, 10:29 AM / edited 18 Nov 2009, 11:22 AM |
| Best Break up of the Year... - Agreed: Simon Smith & Paul Harrop in Postal The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year... - Miranda Harcourt then Stuart McKenzie, 2nd half entrances via suitcase in Biography of my Skin (and if there was an award for it, Miranda's exit via same at the end of the 1st half). The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year... - Allan Henry in Vienna Verona's Romeo and Juliet - and Henry V and Henry VI Part 1 (did he die in both of those?) - OK it's not so much the deaths as the fights leading up to them. The Award for Best Poster of the Year... - I agree with Brie, the Footnote North & South Islands poster Best Costume of the Year... - I agree with Erin: Milo Haigh's frock in Death Is Not Enough Smallest Part of the Year... - whoever played Rosaline in Vienna Verona's Romeo and Juliet (she was at the party wasn't she?). Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... - I agree - Paul Harrop in Postal Best Accent of the Year... - Andrea Tutt, from Russia wanting love, in Where Are You My Only One? Best Technical ***k of the Year... - [does this mean best technical f**k as opposed to an intimate and romantic one or is it about a technical f**k up?] If the latter I nominate the posting of this category. Best Dry of the Year... - aaah ... it's coming to me .... Best Weapon of the Year... - The slings and arrows of outrageous poetry in Frogs Under the Waterfront The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year... - Jo Randerson as Harvester of Sorrow, in denial about her condition, in Good-Night - The End The CAROLINE and DAVE ARMSTRONG Award for Best Pash of the Year... - Simon Smith and Paul Harrop in Postal A lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night... Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy... - Smoko de Milo or its most excellent exponent, Aaron Coirtesi's L'amministrazione The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... - James Conway-Law, Laurel Devenie, Rawiri Jobe, Suzanne Tye in Gary Henderson's Stealing Games, (superbly directed for Capital E by Murray Lynch) Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play... - the cast of The Caucasian Chalk Circle Best Dancing in a Play... - Gavin Rutherford, Andrea Tutt and Donna Akersten in Where Are You My Only One? |
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| Ralph Upton | posted 18 Nov 2009, 04:35 PM / edited 18 Nov 2009, 05:03 PM |
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| brad knewstubb | posted 19 Nov 2009, 11:11 AM |
| HACKMAN would like to formally apologise for ***king up the TECHNICAL ***K UP section. It now reads as it should - the Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year! We wish you a merry Christmas! HACKMAN |
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| Rachel Lenart | posted 19 Nov 2009, 12:17 PM |
| Thanks for clarifying Hackman. If this is the case i would like to nominate Kyla Walker, sound designer, sadly in a posthumous capacity, for the sudden appearance of an incredibly loud Zip in the middle of a tranquil graden scene in Richard ii. Kyla will be remembered for much greater artistic contributions than this ***k up, she was an incredibly talented lady, but this was a wonderful highlight of the theatre year for me. | |
| Anna Harcourt | posted 20 Nov 2009, 02:42 PM |
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| Kate McGill | posted 30 Nov 2009, 08:23 PM |
from Sophie Hambleton and Kate McGill who have too many fantastic friends and colleagues to nominate... so this was done in the heat of the moment.
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| Kate McGill | posted 30 Nov 2009, 08:24 PM / edited 30 Nov 2009, 08:25 PM |
| that would be fLat whites... sorry Dad- Soph xx |
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| Dean Hewison | posted 30 Nov 2009, 08:59 PM |
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| Dean Hewison | posted 30 Nov 2009, 09:01 PM |
| Nominations close midnight Thursday Dec 3rd. Everybody who nominates will be put into a draw for a rad prize. Please note that the time of the Chapman Kips this Friday has moved to 10:30pm. This is because it will be in the theatre after Hot Pink Bits. Still come at 10 and get your Pit pre-drinks on. |
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| Dean Hewison | posted 30 Nov 2009, 10:30 PM / edited 30 Nov 2009, 10:32 PM |
| And finally, let's not dare forget the vibrant discussions in last year's Chapman Kip forum, all of which is just as relevant today. Except the plays, they're so 2008. www.theatreview.org.nz/forum/topic.php |
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| Phil De Fur | posted 30 Nov 2009, 11:59 PM / edited 1 Dec 2009, 07:54 AM |
| The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year... Rachel Forman, Dean O'Gorman and Jade Daniels for Blood Wedding. A Menage a Tois would've sorted it all out. The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year... The assorted ghosts of Miranda Harcourt's past on the big screen for Biography of my Skin The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year... Milo Haigh as Death in Charmed is Not Enough. Death never looked so hawt. The Award for Best Poster of the Year... Geraldine Brophy for Blood Wedding. The anti-MILF. Best Costume of the Year... Peter Hambleton's sideburns in Collapsing Creation - actually took ten years OFF his appearance when you saw him in real life The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year... To the Italian in tight pants in a Joe Randerson comedy Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... Geraldine Brophy for Blood Wedding Best Accent of the Year... Nick Dunbar in Le Sud - you could smell the escargot on his corpulent breath Best Stage Manager of the Year... Pat McIntosh for all she's done in 2009 (but especially for The 39 Steps) The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year... Adam Page for the way he wielded his sax like a mighty super-tuned phallus. Total sax appeal. The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year... Well if being under the influence of helium / nitrous oxide is a medical condition, then the little dude in Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants A lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night... To Willem Wassenaar for enduring Fringe Awards host Derek Flores's bald-headed barbs at the awards The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... Cast of The 39 Steps, with a nod to Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants for their expertly choreographed movements The K'RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play... Steel Ballerina's Pagan Dorman - well it was about a dancer wasn't it? |
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| Fiona McNamara | posted 1 Dec 2009, 03:05 AM |
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| Uther Dean | posted 1 Dec 2009, 02:31 PM / edited 1 Dec 2009, 02:39 PM |
| Best Technical ***k of the Year...I'd like to give a commendation for not f***ing up to Uther Dean, who as lighting op for Cardenio sat in the audience reading and got up once or twice to stroll over the lighting board and press a button, then returned to his book. As hilarious as that is and as much as I wish it to be true it isn't. While I did on occasion read (Richard Fyneman's Five Easy Pieces, if you're interested) while operating Cardy (it was three hours long with only a dozen or so lighting cues and I had seen it multiple times before operating it so never even came close to missing a cue) I never sat in the audience apart from one brief moment during the dress rehearsal from which I think this story has sprung. Reality is rather annoying. |
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| brad knewstubb | posted 1 Dec 2009, 03:00 PM |
| New Award Posted! The EDWARDS Award for Technical Wizardy. Nominations Close on Thursday Night! Get Voting!!!!!!!!! |
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| yvette parsons | posted 1 Dec 2009, 05:52 PM |
| Best Cross Gender Acting......Rashmi Pilapitiya as Shantilal in GAS |
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| Isaac Heron | posted 1 Dec 2009, 07:54 PM |
| Best Entrance: Matariki Whatarau in Caucasian Chalk Circle. Amazing. Also do the young and hungry shows count? |
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| Fiona McNamara | posted 2 Dec 2009, 06:32 AM |
| yes, I admit, Uther's technical non-f*** is based purely on rumour. But a hilarious one. |
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| Ralph McCubbin Howell | posted 2 Dec 2009, 08:23 AM |
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| Zelda Edwards | posted 2 Dec 2009, 11:03 AM |
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| Robin Kerr | posted 2 Dec 2009, 01:27 PM |
| The EDWARDS award for technical wizardry... Holy !@#$%^& *()&^%$ #&^% that table just flew across the stage!!!! - to Andrew Foster/Glenn Ashcroft for Goodnight, The End. |
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| Dean Hewison | posted 2 Dec 2009, 02:54 PM |
| As mentioned, everybody who nominates gets entered into the draw to win a cool prize. The cool prize is: A BATS double pass A play from The Play Press Single nominations not eligible, you have to do a fair few. If the winner isn't at the awards, it will be redrawn. See you Friday! |
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| Uther Dean | posted 2 Dec 2009, 05:53 PM |
| Just adding nominations for the awards that have popped up since my first round. The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play - The ever present type writer in Wolf's Lair The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry - A seconding of Robin's nomination of the table in Good Night, The End. The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play - 'NOBODY. EVER. GETS. ANY. BETTER.' Cornelius Crook (Emmett Skilton) in Bedlam by Eli Kent. No matter how many times he said it, it never stopped being genius. Best Stage Manager of the Year - Chelsea Adams for Two Day Plays Best Technical ***k Up of the Year - I second Rachel Lenart's nomination for the unexpected Zip! in Richard II by the dear departed Kyla Walker Best Dry of the Year - David Lawrence in the opening scene of the opening night of Henry VI, Part One. It came in stages. First, a stumble, then a silence, then his wonderful begging of Alex Grieg with his eyes and hands which seemed to go on forever then finally turning to the audience, 'Hey, it's a really hard list this one!' The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year - Simon Smith and Paul Harrop in Postal. |
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| John Smythe | posted 2 Dec 2009, 08:21 PM |
| Best Dry of the Year - I totally concur with Uther Dean's nomination: a beautifully recollected evocation of David Lawrence's memorable moment in Henry VI Part 1. David should also get a special award for book-ending the Compleate Workes Project with his epic cast-rich (hooray!) Henrys. The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry - some may think the disappearing table in Good Night - The End (nominated by Robin Kerr) is a 'Kerr con' because it was a 'blink and you missed it' moment (preparing the stage for the skeleton dance) while your attention was probably on Aaron Cortesi in the audience ... But what remains indelible for me is the combo of lighting, fog, soundscape and Jo Randerson's 'naked' voice taking her into the white light. It has to be worthy of an award under some category. The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year... I'm tempted to swing over to Ralph's nomination of Allan Henry in Henry V, Vienna Verona and Henry V Part 1, not only for his own performances but also for the many and variegated fights he choreographed. But I snuck all that in under Best Death (above) - and I did like battle-of-the-stanzas in Frogs Under the Waterfront ... |
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| David Lawrence | posted 3 Dec 2009, 12:16 AM / edited 3 Dec 2009, 12:17 AM |
| If you check the cast list, Uther and John, I think you'll find it was the actor Walter Plinge, not me, who had the gigantic dry 85 lines into a relatively simple speech in 1 Henry VI summarising the plots and family trees of the previous five plays in the cycle! He and I do look alike, except that he has long hair and no hump. He dates Moya Bannerman, if I recall correctly (Walter?). |
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| Uther Dean | posted 3 Dec 2009, 09:40 AM |
| Oh, of course, give my apologies to the forgetful Mr. Plinge. It couldn't have been you as you were operating the sound and lights.
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| Victoria Spackman | posted 3 Dec 2009, 09:44 AM |
Good morning, this from Stuart and I:
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| Moya Bannerman | posted 3 Dec 2009, 10:16 AM / edited 3 Dec 2009, 12:33 PM |
| "Dated" is a loaded word, David. Walter Plinge and I met at an encounter group for people with identity issues and yes, we have become support buddies for those sudden and profound anxiety attacks the condition can provoke. Sadly I was unably to help Walter the night he dried but to make up for it he did make my shoulder wet afterwards. Not that our wet patches are anyone else's business really. |
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| Nell Williams | posted 3 Dec 2009, 11:38 AM |
| Great to see the SMs getting some much needed public recognition. It's hard frikken slog for not much glory so cheers to Ms Harcourt for getting the ball rolling on those noms. My vote goes to whoever SMed CCC @ Toi: A billion prop/costume elements to keep track of, significant H+S issues to consider, use of food/liquids, a large cast and a long run time. Nice work. And I'm adding one more nom to my list, for the Edwards Award for Technical Wizardry: to the Liz Carpenter/Rachel Baker combo, for working out that the right gel plus the right red plus the right latex results in a fully moveable, reuseable puddle of blood (Bedlam). |
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| Hannah Clarke | posted 3 Dec 2009, 01:14 PM |
| Here are my very bias nominations:
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| Jean Sergent | posted 3 Dec 2009, 03:38 PM |
| Tomorrow night is going to be a nice time, don't you think? Thanks nice people for organising this future nice time. And my opninions are:
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| Deborah Eve Rea | posted 3 Dec 2009, 08:01 PM |
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| Deborah Eve Rea | posted 3 Dec 2009, 08:22 PM |
| I must also quickly put on my FOH hat to remind you that the awards start at 10.30pm. Please be lovely and mindful that the beauiful Penny Ashton will be performing Hot Pink Bits in the theatre until that time. Kia ora :) |
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| Anna Harcourt | posted 3 Dec 2009, 11:06 PM |
| Cos Jean added the category of best set design, I'm gonna nom Andrew Foster for set for Titus Andronicus. It's a bit pre-emptive cos none of ya'll have seen it yet. But its a real goods set. Opening night is tommorrow, before the awards. How convenient. |
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| Editor | posted 5 Dec 2009, 12:13 PM |
| And the winners of the Chapman Kip Theatre Awards 2009 are ... The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year... Paul Harrop & Simon Smith - Postal ROWAN BETTJEMAN AND ERIN BANKS - A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY Everyone in Blood Wedding Collapsing Creation The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year... Aaron Cortesi - Good Night, The End Matariki Whataru, Caucasian Chalk Circle DEBS REA - SIT ON IT Stuart McKenzie - Biography of my skin Collapsing Creation The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year... MILOS HAIGUSS - CHARM IS NOT ENOUGH Rose Guise - Animal Hour Felicity McDonnell - Goodnight, The End Collapsing Creation The Award for Best Poster of the Year... MADE IN NZ - FOOTNOTE DANCE ANIMAL HOUR SKYROCKETEERS OF JUSTICE VS THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Collapsing Creation Best Costume of the Year... Death - Charmed is Not Enough Ricky Dey - Entertaining Mr Sloane YVETTE PARSONS - ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE Collapsing Creation The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year... JOHNNY HARRISON - THE INTRICATE ART OF ACTUALLY CARING Kent Robinson - Becoming the Courtesan Ally Garret - Vienna Verona Collapsing Creation The OUT OF BOUNDS Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year... PAUL HARROP - POSTAL Rashmi Pilapitiya - Gas Natalie Medlock - Songs for the Ugly Kids Collapsing Creation The CAPITAL E Award for Best Accent of the Year... NICK DUNBAR - LE SUD Aaron Cortesi - Good Night, The End Erin Banks - The Clean House Collapsing Creation The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play FINGER-SNAPPING - BEDLAM Dai Henwood - Hot Pink Bits Children - Biography of my Skin Collapsing Creation The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry... Table - Goodnight, The End EDITING - LIVE AT SIX Glenn Ashworth Collapsing Creation The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play... I've gotta take a piss - Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants ANYTHING FROM LIVE AT SIX, SPECIAL MENTION TO "WE'RE CHOPPING UP THE NATION'S FOOD FOR THEM." Nobody ever gets any better - Bedlam Collapsing Creation Best Stage Manager of the Year... Pat Mackintosh - 39 Steps CHELSEA ADAMS - TWO DAY PLAYS Debbie Fish - Vienna Verona Collapsing Creation The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year... Video editing - Live at Six PAINT ROLLERS - ROMEO AND JULIET Allan Henry Collapsing Creation The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year... Tim Spite - Turbine Paul Waggot (various roles) - Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants JACK SHADBOLT - THE BLACKENING Collapsing Creation The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year... SIMON SMITH AND PAUL HARROP - POSTAL Toby Leach and Rashmi Pilapitiya - Gas Ricky Dey and Yvette Parsons - Entertaining Mr Sloane Cathy Downes and Peter Hambleton - Collapsing Creation The NZ FRINGE FESTIVAL lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night... AARON CORTESI Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy... Aaron Cortesi - Goodnight, The End ANDREW FOSTER - GOODNIGHT, THE END Richard Falkner - Measure for Measure Collapsing Creation The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year... Vienna Verona Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants THE CAUCASION CHALK CIRCLE Collapsing Creation Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play... JEAN SERGENT - A MOST OUTRAGEOUS HUMBUG Phil Vaughan - Live at Six Caucasion Chalk Circle Collapsing Creation The K'RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play.. Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants MEASURE FOR MEASURE Jaci Gwaliasi - Various Collapsing Creation |