December 15, 2008
The CHAPMAN KIP THEATRE AWARDS (Wellington)
Editor posted 21 Nov 2008, 09:44 AM / edited 22 Nov 2008, 09:24 PM
The 1st ANNUAL CHAPMAN KIP THEATRE AWARDS – People’s Choice!
(Click here for the full announcement)
This forum is for shows seen in Wellington throughout 2008 (if other cities want to play we will open separate forums).
THE CATEGORIES ARE:
Best Entrance of the Year……….
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year………..
Best Accent of the Year…………
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year…………..
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year………….
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year…………
Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year…………….
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year……………
Best Weapon of the Year…………..
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year…………..
Best Costume of the Year……………..
Best Use of Prop of the Year………………
The award for Actor/Actress playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year……..
A Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented at the People’s Choice Awards Ceremony at:
The Pit Bar (at BATS)
on Friday the 12th of December
beginning at 11pm, expected to finish at 11.20pm.
There will be a number of spot prizes at the bar for all attendees.
Entry by Koha.
If you would like to suggest a nomination category, sponsor an award, donate a spot prize for the ceremony, or host a People’s Choice in your city please contact Kip Chapman at hackman.nz@gmail.com
Please post your nomination as a Reply to this Forum.
Zelda Edwards posted 21 Nov 2008, 10:15 AM / edited 21 Nov 2008, 10:49 AM
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year…………..
By “Ass” do you mean “Asshole” or “Hot” Ass?
If I could nominate a “Hot Ass” then I would that would be Lee-Roy Swayze, for his Ass in Rock Around The Bitchmas Tree @ BATS 27-29 Nov.
Erin Banks posted 21 Nov 2008, 10:28 AM / edited 2 Dec 2008, 12:19 PM
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year………..
I nominate Allan Henry as ‘Afortunado’, the incorrigible swinging Spaniard in A RENAISSANCE MAN who had to be killed at least 8 times (beaten, stomped on, stabbed, thrown overboard, drowned etc.) before he finally gave up and died!
But in all seriousness…
Best Entrance of the Year……….Kate Prior – Revenge of the Amazons
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year………..Rob Lloyd shooting Jamie McCaskill – The Pillowman
Best Accent of the Year…………Heather O’Carroll – Guardians
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. Salesi Le’ota – Revenge of the Amazons
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year………….Ban Abdul – Wait Until Dark
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year…………A Renaissance Man
Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year…………….Felix Preval – Sensible Susan and the Queen’s Merkin
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year……………Nick Dunbar’s wig – Drinking Games
Best Weapon of the Year…………..The Jandals – Where We Once Belonged
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year…………..Allan Henry and Rachel Forman – This is Our Youth
Best Costume of the Year…………….The Clown’s head tap – Rubber Turkey
Best Use of Prop of the Year………………The jacket ‘friend’/skydive – Destination: Death
The award for Actor/Actress playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…….. Dan Musgrove (OCD) – Blinkers
Welly Watch posted 21 Nov 2008, 10:35 AM
How prescient of you Zelda! You’re clearly not superstitious … And here was I wracking my brains for a Shakespeare-type Bottom in the ‘Ass’ category …
But of course this is a bare-arsed grasp at fame by Kip Chapman himself, hoping to score a nom-de-nation for his booty-licious vulnerability in The Little Bitch Yapped at Downstage (as well she might!).
So Ok let’s indulge him – I bitch-slap Kip with a nomination in category 4.
Nell Williams posted 21 Nov 2008, 10:57 AM / edited 21 Nov 2008, 11:34 AM
Best Use of Prop of the Year………………
I have to nominate the use of the Merkin as a beard in the penultimate scene of Sensible Susan. Ridiculous!
(In the interests of nominational integrity, yes, you could say I’m biased, but I reckon I would have nominated it for this category even if I hadn’t been involved in the show. Honest.)
Michael Wray posted 21 Nov 2008, 11:07 AM / edited 21 Nov 2008, 05:30 PM
1. Best Entrance of the Year……….
Brian Hotter in Heat. On knees, covered in black body paint, painted white torso. And, oh yeah, stark bollock naked except for knee pads. Comes in for a couple of seconds, throws a few staccato-like movements and then leaves. Did that just happen or did the Pit spike my drink?!
4. The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year…………..
So many exposures. Was 2008 the year of the rear? Brian Hotter in Heat (see above), Kip Chapman in Little Dog. What about Aaron Cortezi’s back, sack (hold the crack?) in Mr Marmalade and I think also Heat (though I may have just had retina ass-burn by then and imagined it!)?
7. Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year…………….
Tempted to go with the first thought that phrase conjures up around christmas i.e. Julian Wilson! For a serious award, Carol Smith in Ruthie Bird. Instead for making me think, “I thought Rachel Foreman was in this” until I realised the moustachioed astronaut was her (duh! me), I’ll nominate Rachel Foreman in Apollo 13.
Brianne Kerr posted 21 Nov 2008, 11:08 AM / edited 21 Nov 2008, 05:32 PM
My Nominations . . .
Best Entrance of the Year………. Skating Fairies – Revenge of the Amazons
*****SPOILER*******
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. Brian Hotter – HEAT
*****SPOILER ENDS*******
Best Accent of the Year………… Heather O’Carroll – Guardians
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. Aaron Cortesi – HEAT
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year…………. BAN ABDUL!!!! – Wait Until Dark
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year………… Theatre Militia – Sensible Susan and the Queens Merkin
Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year……………. Rachel More – Renaissance Man
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year…………… Bruce – Revenge of the Amazons
Best Weapon of the Year………….. Politics – On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as Her Young Lover
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year………….. Rachel Forman and Allan Henry – This is Our Youth
Best Costume of the Year…………….. Transformer Car – Hypnotastic
Best Use of Prop of the Year……………… Crushed Watermelon – Renaissance Man
x Bri
Michael Wray posted 21 Nov 2008, 11:14 AM / edited 21 Nov 2008, 11:47 AM
For best costume, you could go with Salesi’s shiny short short short shorts in Revenge of the Amazons…..
Transformer Car – Hypnotastic…. I’d forgotten about that one Bri, yeah that one was excellent.
Uther Dean posted 21 Nov 2008, 11:19 AM / edited 21 Nov 2008, 05:31 PM
My noms –
Best Entrance of the Year – The Soldier in ‘Blasted’
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year – Aaron Cortesi gets it in the head in ‘Paua’
Best Accent of the Year – Jason Whyte in ‘Mammals’
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year – Bryon Coll in ‘The Taxi Guy’
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year – Apollo 13
Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year – The Severe Majority of the cast of ‘Sensible Susan’
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year – The Rejected Goddess Diana in ‘The Storm’
Best Weapon of the Year – The Medicine Ball in ‘The Little Tragedies’
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year – Hayden Frost and Anna Pearson in ‘RPM’
Best Costume of the Year – The transforming cars in ‘Hypnotastic’
Best Use of Prop of the Year – The tap in the clown’s head in ‘Rubber Turkey’
Aaron Alexander posted 22 Nov 2008, 09:11 AM / edited 22 Nov 2008, 05:37 PM
Best Poster I’d vote for ‘Metamorphosis’.
Best Accent : Bruce Phillips (various) ‘The Man Lovelock etc etc’
Kip, how about the Sean Penn Awards-Bait Character With A Disability/Medical Condition Award?:
Ban Abdul (blindness) ‘Wait Until Dark’
Nick Dunbar (cancer) ‘Drinking Games’
Gavin Rutherford (undefined mental illness) ‘Love Song’
Aaron Cortesi (drug addiction & insubstantiality) ‘Mr Marmalade’
Must be more…
audience member posted 22 Nov 2008, 10:17 AM / edited 22 Nov 2008, 11:31 AM
I have been wracking my brains trying to remember what has been so here you go:
Circa:
Streetcar named Desire
Jack And the beanstalk
Armslength
Rabbit
Who wants to be 100
This is Our Youth
The man that Lovelock Couldn’t beat
The American Pilot
Rome
Love Song
Bone
Mammals
Wait Until Dark
Some Girls
Bombshells
Drinking Games
The Pillowman
Red Riding Hood
Downstage:
Paua
Bare
Adagio
Helen Clark
The Lonesome Buckwhips
Little Dog laughed
Elemental
Te Karakia
Where We Once Belonged
Marilyn
March of the Meeklings
2b or nt 2b
My Brilliant Divorce
BATS:
Apollo 13
Heat
Guardians
Black Tuesday
Sensible Susan
Mr Marmalade
Man the Pie and the Taxi Guy
Jeff Koons
Young and Hungrys
Rubber Turkey
Grace
The Little Tragedies
Tuawhenua
destination: death
Don’t feed the man fish
eye of a dancer
Eiffel tower wedding party
in living memory
shining armor
winter
the mall
luv
metamorphisis
burnt coffee
handy man
the last 5 years
tim and andy
not the all india radio show
improv angels
hypnotastci
the lady bunch
Mrs peacock
the singularity
bouncers
shoes
ruthie bird
hail to the thief
blinkers
charlie
get cuffed
babycakes
a renaissance man
godzone
revenge of the amazons
Phew!!
Editor posted 22 Nov 2008, 11:44 AM / edited 22 Nov 2008, 12:16 PM
That’s a great start A M – and then there were all those shows performed at other venues in Wellington, e.g. during the Fringe … If you click on Reviews (to the left), scroll to the bottom and click on page 73, you will get to the start of the year. Then work your way back … Sorry we can’t filter for Wellington only.
Editor posted 22 Nov 2008, 06:17 PM / edited 23 Nov 2008, 07:48 AM
Here is a revised full list (I hope) of theatre shows performed in Wellington during 2008 so far (not counting improv, dance and opera, which have also been reviewed on this site). It comes to 134 contenders!
Put any title into the ‘Search Reviews’ field to get to the reviews and thereby to the production pages.
Double ‘Bill’: Bottom’s Tale + Mr & Mrs The Scottish Play
The Little Dog Laughed (Wellington)
Heat
The Pillowman
AoTERRORoa
Unity (1918)
Apollo 13: Mission Control
One Man
Wait Until Dark
Adagio
Blasted
Mr Marmalade
The Pied Piper
Drinking Games
Montana World of WearableArt™ (WOW®) 2008
The Sound of Music
The Little Tragedies
Bare
Jenufa
The Devil’s Architect
Destination: Death
The Pohutukawa Tree
Some Girl(s)
Iphigenia In Orem
The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party
Jeff Koons
Shining Armour
Mammals
Winter
Black Tuesday
Go Solo 2008
Dora the Explorer Live! Dora’s Pirate Adventure!
Lear & His Daughters
The Pied Piper
Metamorphosis
The Snow Queen
Hinepau
A VOTE for CYNTHIA
Puss ‘n Boots
Strike: Elemental
The Illusion
ROME The Musical
Young and Hungry 08
Love Song
Spring Awakening
My Brilliant Divorce
Guardians
Songs of Hollow Hill
CATS
A Streetcar Named Desire
Ka Mate, Ka Ora
Bone
The Last 5 Years
Handy Man
The American Pilot
Tim and Andy: AN ADVENTURE
One Man Star Wards Trilogy (Canada)
Improv – The Rock Opera
(Not) The All India Radio Show
Cohen Holloway’s Hypnotastic Tour 2008
TheatreSports
Improv Angels
The Morrisons: Huntly High and Low
Rubber Turkey
The Lonesome Buckwhips’ Charity Gala
Tale of a Dog
Which Witch Is Which?
The Hollow Men
Office Boy
T h e S i n g u l a r i t y
The Storm
The Man That Lovelock Couldn’t Beat
Rabbit
Kiwi Moon
Shoes
Bouncers
Where We Once Belonged
LUV
The Dentist’s Chair
Zarathustra Said
this is our youth
Bro’ Town Live on Stage
Hail to the Thief
Ruthie Bird and the King of Hearts
Who Wants to be 100? (anyone who’s 99)
Get Cuffed!
Te Karakia
The Lindbergh Flight / The Flight Over the Ocean and The Seven Deadly Sins
Jane Austen Is Dead
Location Location
Lady of Tears
The Ghosts’ Soiree
Charlie
Blinkers
Wasps
The Serena Syndrome
Curious?
No Freedom Without You
Engaged
2 b or nt 2 b?
Sensible Susan & the Queen’s Merkin: A morality play
BabyCakes
Shipwrecked Beneath the Stars
March of the Meeklings: An Apocalyptic Romp
Vula
Six O’Clock Swill
The Nominal Space
Tap That II: The Reckoning
The Beckoning of Hope
Dostoevsky Trip
Familiar Strangers
21 Reasons
VünderBra!
The Cape
There’s You
And They Did.
Sex+Murder=Play
Project Exiles: the return of a man called Ulysses
The Man, The Pie and The Taxi Guy
Sleep/Wake
Ground
Presenting The Tinkles
Rabbit
PAUA
Armslength
On The Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her Young Lover
A Renaissance Man
That’s 126 shows, plus (included in Chapman Tripp – and also Chapman Kip? – contention because they opened after the cut-off date for 2007):
A Renaissance Man
Godzone
Revenge of the Amazons
The Wind Speaks to Wellington
A Streetcar Named Desire
Roger Hall’s JACK and the BEANSTALK: The Pantomime
Urinetown: The Musical
The Kreutzer
That’s 134 contenders – have I missed anything out (or is something there that shouldn’t be)?
David Chambers posted 22 Nov 2008, 11:32 PM
Surely there should be the “vulnerability and street wise cunning” award
Michael Wray posted 23 Nov 2008, 12:50 PM / edited 23 Nov 2008, 01:08 PM
I make it 133 productions. The adjustments being the removal of 4 duplications and counting Young & Hungry as three separate shows rather than one.
It’s probably more… What about:
Spooked
Hotel
Funk Rabbit
Trial of the Cannibal Dog
Step Up Darlings
We went to approximately 100 of the listed shows… gulp!
audience member posted 23 Nov 2008, 05:26 PM
Most supportive theatre go-er: Michael Wray???
audience member posted 23 Nov 2008, 05:27 PM
Most supportive theatre go-er: Michael Wray???
Rachel Forman posted 23 Nov 2008, 07:37 PM
Best Entrance of the Year…Bob the penguin. Heat.
Best Accent of the Year….Morgana O’reilley. The Mall.
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year…Brad Knewstubb. Apollo 13. Did you see how tight those pants were?!
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year… The “On the conditions…. of Helen Clark…” Billboard was pretty awesome. Rubber Turkey. Apollo 13.
Best Weapon of the Year… Michael Whalley’s/Whallen’s comic timing.
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year…Richard Knowles and Kip Chapman. LDL
Best Costume of the Year…Kate Prior. Revenge of the Amazons
thomas pepperell posted 25 Nov 2008, 06:25 PM
i was hoping someone would vote for kips and richards pash in LDL for best pash
i second that nomination
if not then richards and renee’s same show
John Smythe posted 25 Nov 2008, 09:07 PM
It is now possible to filter Reviews by region as well as Date, Production or Venue.
From the main menu, click Reviews
From the Region pick-list, select a region
From the ‘Order by’ options, click either Date, Production or Venue.
Result: The list is sorted according to the criteria chosen.
Rachel Lenart posted 28 Nov 2008, 11:52 AM
My nominations are below. Disclaimer that many of my nominations are biased, nepotistic and at times downright corrupt. But I figure if politicians can vote for themselves on election day then Directors can nominate their shows and its still fairly valid…
Would like to suggest categories for Best Dance Routine and most hilarious original song.
Best Entrance: Ralph McCubbin Howell- Eiffel Tower Wedding Party
Best Death: Patrick Davis- Blasted
and Richard Dey- Black Tuesday
Best Accent: Heather O’Carroll- Gardians
and Charlotte Bradley (as Yoko Bollocks) March of the Meeklings
Best Ass: So many great asses this year, I’ve narrowed it down to 3
Patrick Davis- Blasted
Jake Preval- And They Did (I had the pleasure of seeing the show the night his pants ripped)
The Homosex Puppet- Sensible Susan and the Queen’s Merkin
Poster: Eiffel Tower Wedding Party
Metamorphisis
Black Tuesday
Cross Gender: Felix Preval- Sensible Susan
Smallest part: The Homosex puppet- Sensible Susan
Best Pash: Richard Dey and Simon Smith- Sensible Susan
Best Costume: The Radiograms- Eiffel Tower Wedding Party
The Girls in Grace
Queen Elizabeth- Sensible Susan
Best Prop: The Merkin… As above…. several times
Disability: Kate in Blasted
Ban Abdul (lets give her 2 awards)
Good luck, nominees!
Kip Chapman posted 1 Dec 2008, 01:14 PM
From Martyn Wood!
Best Entrance of the Year………. Those two soldier dudes at the end of American Pilot
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. The cast of Paua
Best Accent of the Year………… Morgana O’Reilly – The Mall
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year…………..Aaron Cortesi – Mr Marmalade
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year…………. Ummmm…….
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year………… Metamorphosis
Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year……………. Rachel More – A Renaissance Man
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year…………… There are no small parts, just small actors (so Byron Coll, coz he’s pretty short)
Best Weapon of the Year………….. The tape recorder – Some Girl(s)
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year………….. Allan Henry and Rachel Forman – This Is Our Youth
Best Costume of the Year…………….. The Cactus and the Sunflower – Mr Marmalade
Best Use of Prop of the Year……………… Powerpoint – On the Conditions….Helen Clark….
The award for Actor/Actress playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…….. Ben Hutchison – The Lonesome Buckwhips (Alcoholic)
thomas pepperell posted 1 Dec 2008, 01:39 PM
can i add: Best Entrance of the Year………. the police coming down from above in Paua
and well i had to go to my thea 101 notes for this cause i had Byron Coll get cuffed but thats best cross dresser so for Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year i’d say the cast of black tuesday
Dean Hewison posted 2 Dec 2008, 07:45 AM / edited 2 Dec 2008, 08:43 AM
Sorry about the formatting… not sure how I get my spaces happening. [Fixed? ed]
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. Suffocating your younger past self with your breasts, Hypnotastic
Best Accents of the Year………… Brooke Williams / Byron Coll, Mr Marmalade
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. Aaron Cortesi. Maybe not the best, but very prolific. It should get a facebook page.
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year…………. Ban Abdul
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year………… Metamorphosis
Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year……………. Felix Preval, Sensible Susan
Best Weapon of the Year………….. Vase of acid, Wait Until Dark
Best Costume of the Year…………….. Transforming cars, Hypnotastic
Best Use of Prop of the Year……………… Mogwai turning into Gremlins, Hypnotastic
Kate Prior posted 3 Dec 2008, 05:41 PM / edited 3 Dec 2008, 09:29 PM
Best Entrance of the Year …………………..The saved returning astronauts – Apollo 13.
Best Death of the Year ……………………….All of them in Paua.
Best Accent of the Year ………………………Byron Coll, Mr Marmalade
Best Ass of the Year …………………………..Yup, Aaron Cortesi in any play you want
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller ……Ms Abdul
Poster of the Year ……………………………..The Mall/Luv
Best Cross-Gender Performance ……………Rachel Forman in Apollo 13
Best weapon ……………………………………Kate Prior’s breast in Revenge of the Amazons/Heat/Any play you want.
Best Pash ………………………………………..Kip and Richard – The Little Dog Laughed
Best Costume …………………………………..The ever-transient body paint of Bob the Penguin – Heat
Best Use of Prop ………………………………..I second Martyn’s powerpoint call for ‘On the Conditions….’
The Award for Actor playing a Character
with a Disability/Medical Condition ………Rob Lloyd’s blind boy in Paua
Zelda Edwards posted 4 Dec 2008, 11:22 AM / edited 8 Dec 2008, 03:21 PM
* Best Entrance of the Year………. Aunty Entity aka Tina Turner, Rock Around The Bitchmas Tree
* The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. Paua – all
* Best Accent of the Year………… Brooke Williams, Mr Marmalade
* The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. Lee Roy Swayze & Aaron Cortesi
* Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year…………. BAN BAN BAN BAN
* The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year………… Six O’Clock Swill
* Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year……………. All the cast from Sensible Susan & The Queens Merkin: Bex, Felix, Hannah, Simon, Ricky. Also Rachel Forman was super hot as a man in Apollo 13
* Best Weapon of the Year………….. Fish Rockets things on sticks from Transforming cars, Hypnotastic it was like a weapon right?
* Best Costume of the Year…………….. Transforming cars, Hypnotastic
* Best Use of Prop of the Year……………… Merkin
* The award for Actor/Actress playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…….. BAN BAN BAN BAN
Thomas LaHood posted 4 Dec 2008, 08:28 PM / edited 4 Dec 2008, 08:38 PM
Sorry Zelda, your posting got caught in the SPAM TRAP!!! So I fished it out. Just wanted to let you know, I’m out here, doing my bit.
Don’t feel like I need to add to the nominations already on the table except for this, a CLEAR winner in my esteem:
Best Entrance: Byron Coll in Mr Marmalade.
The audience could not stop laughing. All he did was walk through the door with his hands in his pockets. Pure clown.
Zelda Edwards posted 5 Dec 2008, 09:14 AM
Thanks Thomas
After last night I have to add one more
Best Pash ……………………………………….. Kate McGill & Hadleigh Walker (Christmas Indoors)
Charlotte Larsen posted 8 Dec 2008, 03:05 PM
Award for clearing up after a drunken after Chapman Tripp party in a spa pool – Kip Chapman and Willem Wassenaar!! You guys rock! Now who vomited in my sink?!
Willem Wassenaar posted 10 Dec 2008, 10:37 AM
Will be away, but very excited to hear the outcome!! Good luck to all nominees! The theatre revolution has begun! Go Hackman for organizing the most prestegious and wanted awards for Wellington Theatre. (Apologies for nominating my own show Colony! in so many categories, but it happened that this show totally fit the criteria and calibre of these awards, FYI Colony! has a demand return season in the 2009 Wellington Fringe Festival.)
The Jason Whyte Award for Best Entrance of the Year………. Byron Coll in Marmalade without question
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. The collective suicide jump in the oceon by the cast of Colony!; after this they performed a circus at the bottom of the sea
Best Accent of the Year………… Hayden Frost (Bozo the Mute Mime) in Colony!
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. Difficult, most revealing ass must say Aaron Cortesi, got intrigued by the tattoo above his bum and reckon this could be a unique selling point, very recognizable and saw his copyright again shining in HEAT
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year………… Blinkers, also because of the poloroid flyers
The Theatre Militia Award for Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year……………. Lady Trenyce aka Daniel Williams in the closing night of Jeff Koons, sitting as a silent set object with 50 yellow balloons attached to his dress and head piece; PERFORMANCE ART AND VERY POSTMODERN
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year…………… CACTUS AND SUNFLOWER IN MARMALADE – but ofcourse there are no small parts, only small actors (Stanislavski)
Best Weapon of the Year………….. To kill theatre is the non smoking rule in NZ theatre
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year………….. Biased but its the outrageous kissing of the incestious Siamese twins in the orgy climax of Colony! Ally Garrett and Phillisophia JasonSmith, surrounded by a Bearded Lady, a homosexual Mute Mime and his Ring Master, and a Fortune Teller. Even John Smythe leaped of his chair. By the way, Colony! hits the theatre of WPAC again in the 2009 Wellington Fringe Festival. Do not miss it! 6-9 February.
Best Costume of the Year…………….. The entire cast of Apollo, HOT! Wished I was working in an office with that kind of suit requirements…
Best Use of Prop of the Year……………… Powerpoint in Helen Clark, multimedia becomes a cult statement!
The award for Actor/Actress playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…………….. The Bearded Lady (Imogen Zino) in Colony! trying to find a lover through messages in a bottle. Imogen succeeded in having the audience in hysterics non stop. But also Nick Dunbar in Drinking Games (cancer) for more serious and sophisticated reasons.
GO 2009!!!
Willem Wassenaar posted 10 Dec 2008, 11:06 AM
Sorry… and sorry Ryan. Need to change my nominee.
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year……………
is COLLEEN DAVIS FOR HER PASSIONATE PERFORMANCE AS THE SPANISH WOMAN IN THE SUICIDE DOOR OF BATS / MR. MARMALADE. La Coco at her best!
Aaron Alexander posted 10 Dec 2008, 11:31 AM
And my nomination for Most Shameless Self-Promotional Leveraging of These Very Awards is…Mr. Wassenaar.
Rachel Forman posted 10 Dec 2008, 06:07 PM
Shouldn’t we all think our own work is the best Aaron? I’m not a believer in striving for mediocrity, i want everything i do to be the best it can be. I don’t think we should be modest about that.
Kate McGill posted 10 Dec 2008, 08:12 PM
I agree – as you’ll see from a couple of my Nominations – I wholeheartedly support people nominating themselves
Best Entrance of the Year………. Bob the Penguin in HEAT
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. Everyone in PAUA
Best Accent of the Year………… Ginette McDonald in MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE (the cleaning ladies were researched thoroughly I guarantee you that)
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. Aaron Cortesi in several BATS shows
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year…………. Ban Abdul has it in the bag!
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year………… VunderBra!
Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year……………. Rachel Forman in APOLLO 13 – Incredible
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year…………… Leon Wadham/Salesi Leota in REVENGE OF THE AMAZONS
Best Weapon of the Year………….. Allan Henry’s rapier in RENAISSANCE MAN
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year………….. Ally Garrett and PhylliSophia JasonSmith in COLONY
Best Costume of the Year…………….. Cactus and Sunflower in MR MARMALADE
Best Use of Prop of the Year……………… A tie between The little Dog in MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE (- Go John Harding!) and the teapot in MR MARMALADE (it was a phone, a light, a teapot…endless)
The award for Actor/Actress playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…….. Hannah Clarke in WIND SPEAKS TO WELLINGTON
So there you have it.
I would also like to nominate best publicity in Wellington:
A tie between Phil Reed for APOLLO and Brianne Kerr for THE KREUTZER (and pretty much half the shows on this year!!!!)
Uther Dean posted 10 Dec 2008, 10:15 PM
I’m changing my pick for best weapon of the year. Willem is right, no smoking on stage is the greatest weapon pointed at local theatre, so I’m gonna go with that.
John Smythe posted 10 Dec 2008, 11:00 PM
I’m picking up the smoking on stage issue in a separate forum
Hannah Clarke posted 11 Dec 2008, 09:04 AM
Best Entrance of the Year………. Felix Preval out of the wardrobe.
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. Grace – for faking it.
Best Accent of the Year………… Heather O’Carroll Guardians
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. Tanya Drewery in Step Up Darlings/Heavenly Burlesque/Gravity and Other Myths/generally on the street.
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year…………. ummm, possibly Ban?
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year………… The Kreuzter
Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year……………. Bex Joyce as Mikey in Black Tuesday
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year…………… Hannah Smith’s penis in Sensible Susan
Best Weapon of the Year………….. Merkin.
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year………….. Leighton Smith and Cheryl Amos in Shoes. still makes me shudder.
Best Costume of the Year…………….. the jelly fish in Heavenly Burlesque
Best Use of Prop of the Year……………… the cars in Hyponotastic
The award for Actor/Actress playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…….. me please, actual disabled/medical conditioned with dumbass broken foot.
The Pit Bar would also like to sponsor an award “best spread-eagled performance…. and I’d like to nominate Bryony Skillington in Get Cuffed.
The Pit Bar would also like to be recognised for the best barwench boobs on offer in any theatre bar in town.
AND! I want to tell…
confirmed for the Chapman Kips is DUKE FEZ bringing you some fine tune stylings. Drink specials all round. And don’t forget The Pit Bar closes for the year on Saturday. Come help us use up all our beer stock!
Sophie Hambleton posted 11 Dec 2008, 09:49 AM
1. The Jason Whyte Award for Best Entrance of the Year………. Byron Coll – MR MARMALADE
2.The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. The Cast of Paua
3.Best Accent of the Year………… Byron Coll – MR MARMALADE
4.The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. Aaron Cortesi
5.Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year………….Ban Abdul
6.The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year…………VunderBra! – Yes I designed it and I’m in it but I still think it’s the best….
7.The Theatre Militia Award for Best Cross-Gender Performance of Year……………. Rachel Forman – Apollo 13
8.The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year…………… Colleen Davis – Singing La Coco Lady – MR MARMALADE
9.The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year………….. Kip Chapman and Richard Knowles – LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
10.Best Costume of the Year…………….. the Sunflower and Cactus in Mr MARMALADE
11.Best Use of Prop of the Year……………… Power Point, Arthur Meek
Aaron Alexander posted 11 Dec 2008, 09:51 AM
First of all, my comment was intended as a joke, in the spirit of the awards, and no offence meant to Willem. I suspected he was being fairly tongue-in-cheek with his nominations, so I responded in kind. However, as Rachel has opened the subject of modesty, I’m inclined to respond.
It seems to me, Rachel, that you’re confusing ‘wanting your work to be the best it can be’, ‘thinking your own work is the best’ and ‘telling everybody you think your work is the best’. Modesty, last time I checked, was considered a virtue.
Yes, you always fall in love with productions you’re involved in. You have to, to put up with the bullsh*t.
Yes, you have to have self-belief to get up there, otherwise you wouldn’t dream of it.
But who collects their Chapman Trip and says “Yes, well, I did always BELIEVE that I was the best actress in Wellington this year”? You might believe it, but you don’t come out and say it. It’s inappropriate. What is appropriate is modesty, and celebrating what you likedabout other people’s work.
Call it the Great Kiwi Knocking Machine, or Tall Poppy Syndrome, if you like, but we appreciate modesty in NZ. I like that about us. It strikes me as funny that anybody openly declaring themselves to be the best in virtually any other context in this country would be swiftly brought down to Earth, but here we get people swooping in to assert the importance of being arrogant.
Is it any wonder the stereotype of the actor in the general public’s eye is a narcissist with an massively disproportionate sense of both the difficulty and the importance of what they do?
Kip’s awards here I thought were a nice antidote, if not a satire of the back-slapping love-ins we’re so known for. Earlier this year he told me there might be an award for Biggest Flop, to celebrate the least commercially successful production in town. Sadly, it seems we may not have the self-confidence to laugh at ourselves that much.
Whew, what a rant – never mind smoking on stage, how about burning bridges?
John, bring back pseudonyms, eh?
*actually – there is one other place in this country that I’m aware of where you nominate yourself for awards:
The Advertising Industry.
Role models to us all, I’m sure.
(not content with alienating people in the theatre, now I’m burning bridges in my day job…hmmm.)
Charlotte Larsen posted 11 Dec 2008, 11:45 AM
Best Entrance of the Year………. Byron Coll, Mr Marmalade
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. Bob the penguin
Best Accent of the Year………… Heather O’Carroll Guardians
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. Allan Henry in the Chapman Tripp opening sequence video in that tracksuit
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year…………. Ban, or Audrey Hepburn. Tough call.
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year………… Vunderbra
Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year……………. The two Rachel’s, More and Forman
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year…………… Bruce in Amazons
Best Weapon of the Year………….. the short shorts in Amazons – reflecting light into the eyes of enemies and knocking them out with that tight ass!
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year………….. Seconding Zelda’s Kate and Hadleigh nom!
Best Costume of the Year…………….. the starfish and sheep in Godzone/Cactus and sunflower in Mr Marmalade
Best Use of Prop of the Year……………… the merkin.
The award for Actor/Actress playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…….. Phil Peleton as a Tinkle in Presenting the Tinkles (washed up has been ex rockers are always dillusional and disturbed!)
Julia Truscott posted 12 Dec 2008, 09:25 AM
Hear hear Mr Alexander I like that (dislike of arrogance) about our culture too.. humility and generosity are so much more appealing than narcisssissism oooh that word is ugly too. but I guess ego is a tricky thing and we all have to grapple with that sneaky monkey.
I would like to nominate for
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year … the Merkin
John Smythe posted 12 Dec 2008, 10:42 AM / edited 12 Dec 2008, 10:44 AM
Given this advocacy for self-effacing modesty I think it’s worth noting that no-one has actually nominated themselves as an individual. People have thrown accolades at shows they were part of, at their colleagues and peers – and why not? Isn’t loyalty a Kiwi thing too? (cue Dave Dobbyn …)
As Rachel says, you strive to do the best work you can and when you come out of the season feeling – albeit from a highly subjective and biased perspective – that something good happened there, the urge must be huge to grab this opportunity to have it remembered amid the welter of wonderful work this year has produced.
As one who strives annually, with my colleagues, to ensure the Chapman Tripp Awards are conducted with utmost fairness and integrity – and who always has to conclude that while all nominees are highly deserving, a huge amount of equally superb work invariably misses the cut, democracy being what it is – I have to say I find the Chapman Kip Awards a refreshing antidote: witty, wacky, irreverent, irrational, utterly lacking in objectivity, blatantly self-interested and thereby honest (and don’t we always strive for ‘truth’?) …
The Ancient Greeks always used to tag their seriously dramatic festivals with a satirical piss-take and piss-up … Ah, the more things change ….
So my nomination for Best Teamwork in Cyberspace …….. All contributors to Theatreview: the Makers of every Production covered; the Critics; the Commenters; the Forum Posters; the News providers; the invisible visitors to the site … This is your collective creation!
By the way, it’s interesting to note that apart from ‘audience member’ everyone has posted under their real name. That means something good, I’m sure.
Zelda Edwards posted 12 Dec 2008, 11:36 AM
Again all the Producers seem to have been forgotten.
Am I allowed to start a new category?
Accolade for Outstanding Producing…
I nominate Mark Westerby for Apollo 13 & Eleanor Bishop for Rubber Turkey
Charlotte Larsen posted 12 Dec 2008, 11:42 AM
Seconded Zelda!!!
Rachel Lenart posted 12 Dec 2008, 01:00 PM
Excellent Call Zelda,
Can i nominate Geoff Pinfield for producing Helen Clark
…..oh, and Zelda Edwards for the Merkin!
Also, Can a powerpoint really be considered a prop? If by defination a prop is the property of a performer and is defined as something that can enter and exit with the performer (to distinguish it from set or costume).
The powerpoint in this show is actually the central dramaturigcal device of the play. It is the powerpoint which generates ‘the soul and meaning’ of the production. Exceptionally well used, but not a prop, i think.
…. obivous vested interest in this one, but in the interest also of theatrical pendantry
Dean Hewison posted 12 Dec 2008, 04:03 PM
If I’m not too late, I would like to add to my old nominations the girly pash from Colony for Best Pash, and Hannah Clarke as Cripple of the Year or some such thing.
Angela Green posted 12 Dec 2008, 04:42 PM
Best Entrance of the Year………. Climbing out of a suitcase (Adagio). Oh OK, this is shameless, that was me.
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year……….. Bob (Heat) sob
Best Accent of the Year………… The Radiograms in The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year………….. The Fairies in Revenge of the Amazons
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year…………. Bananapants
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year………… Metamorphosis (again, baised)
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year…………… Bruce in Amazons
Best Weapon of the Year………….. The apple (“take it out of me”) in Metamorphosis
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year………….. Blinked. Missed it. More pashing!!
Best Costume of the Year…………….. Sheep in Godzone
Paul McLaughlin posted 12 Dec 2008, 04:55 PM
Great call Zelda. Producing is a vital but seldom thanked/celebrated role. With the rise of independantly produced work now wowing audiences, I hope this changes and these producers are supported both by the community AND CNZ.
Charlotte Larsen posted 12 Dec 2008, 05:10 PM
I’d also like to suggest a stage manager/production manager/FOH category for next year… those people who work behind the scenes but are rarely thanked!
Charlotte Simmonds posted 12 Dec 2008, 05:58 PM
If it’s not too late, I would like to suggest an award for Best Show Nobody Saw and also Best Actor Nobody’s Heard Of. I’ll buy the winners a beer. (of course, this could end up being the Best Post that Nobody Read too)
Dean Hewison posted 13 Dec 2008, 03:11 AM
Awesome night. If this doesn’t happen every year, someone somewhere will get stabbed by somebody, and it will be Wgtn theatre’s fault.
Rachel Forman posted 13 Dec 2008, 02:21 PM
That’s right Dean, Lets stay Safe in the City. For all those who couldn’t make it the official Hackman Press Release with be posted shortly.
Editor posted 15 Dec 2008, 01:06 PM
The results –
15 Dec 2008
THE CHAPMAN KIP THEATRE AWARDS 2008
It is with joy in our hearts that we are able to announce the winners of the 1st Annual Chapman Kip Theatre Awards. At a prestigious awards ceremony held on the stairs at BATS Theatre over 40 people gathered to hear the winners.
The results follow:
The Michael and Sharon Wray Award for Best Entrance of the Year:
BYRON COLL – MR MARMALADE
The HACKMAN Award for Best Death of the Year:
THE CAST OF PAUA
Best Accent of the Year:
HEATHER O’CARROLL – GUARDIANS
The BATS Award for Best Ass of the Year:
AARON CORTESI – ALL ROLES OF 2008
Best Blind Acting in a 1960’s Thriller of the Year:
Ban Abdul – WAIT UNTIL DARK
The Theatreview Award for Poster of the Year:
METAMORPHOSIS
The Theatre Militia Award for Best Cross-Gender Performance of the Year:
RACHEL FORMAN – APOLLO 13
The Free Theatre Initiative Award for Smallest Part of the Year:
ED WATSON – WAIT UNTIL DARK
Best Weapon of the Year:
ALLAN HENRY (AS HIMSELF)
The Downstage Award for Best Pash of the Year:
KATE MCGILL AND HADLEIGH WALKER – CHRISTMAS INDOORS
Best Costume of the Year:
TRANSFORMING CAR – HYPONOTASTIC
Best Use of Prop of the Year:
THE MERKIN – SENSIBLE SUSAN AND THE QUEEN’S MERKIN
The Jason Whyte award for Actor/Actress playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year:
NICK DUNBAR – DRINKING GAMES (CANCER)
The Most supportive audience member award:
MICHAEL AND SHARON WRAY – OVER 100 SHOWS IN 2008.
Many thanks to all the sponsors of the event and the wonderful BATS Theatre and PIT Bar! —
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