BUTTies 2009/2010
For each award the nominees are listed in alphabetical order, followed by the winner
Best Show
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS)
Oscar and the Lady in Pink (ATC / BATS)
Someone to Watch Over Me (ECC)
The Red Death (ECC)
Three Tall Women (ECC)
Winner Someone to Watch Over Me (ECC)
(Tied with A Midsummer Night’s Dream on votes received, audience at Butties were asked to select winner on day by secret ballot)
Director
Malinda COLEMAN (The Cherry Orchard, Oscar and the Lady in Pink)
Róisín DORE (Four Samuel Becket plays – All That Fall, Breath, Play, Catastrophe)
Deborah GRIFFITH (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Janet MIDDLETON (Three Tall Women)
Caraigh MCGREGOR (The Yellow Wallpaper)
Winner Deborah GRIFFITH
Actor
Noel GRIFFIN [Christy and Mr Barrell (All that Fall); Sir Oliver Kix (Chaste Maid in Cheapside); Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)]
Brian HARTNETT [Matthew (Come on Over)]
Colum HATCHELL [Edward (Someone to Watch Over Me)]
Tim MYERS [Leonid Gayev (The Cherry Orchard); Philip (The Red Death); Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)]
Winner Colum HATCHELL
Actress
Ruth ENGLAND(Oscar and the Lady in Pink)
Lyn WAINWRIGHT [‘A’ (Three Tall Women)]
Ticky CLARK [Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)]
Winner Ruth ENGLAND
Producer
Carrie CAUNCE [The Red Death]
Diane GRAY [Under Milk Wood]
Eileen SUTTON [Four Samuel Becket plays – All That Fall, Breath, Play, Catastrophe]
Catriona WHITE [A Midsummer Night’s Dream]
Winner Carrie CAUNCE
Stage Management
Sue BOTTERELL [Seven Year Itch, Three Tall Women, Under Milk Wood, A Midsummer Night’s Dream]
Malcolm HISEMAN [Four Samuel Becket plays – All That Fall, Breath, Play, Catastrophe]
Alice PERRY [Someone to Watch Over Me, Julius Caesar]
Winner Sue BOTTERELL
Sound
Pirates of Penzance (Nick Heenan)
The Cherry Orchard (Carrie Caunce)
The Red Death (Glenn Vaughan)
Under Milk Wood (Carrie Caunce)
Winner The Red Death
Lighting
Four Samuel Becket plays (Carsten Koester & Róisín Dore)
Oscar and the Lady in Pink (Graham Duthie, Alma Forsyth & Róisín Dore)
The Red Death (Barbara Daw & Robin Jezek)
The Yellow Wallpaper (Carsten Koester)
Winner The Yellow Wallpaper
Publicity Design
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS)
Someone to Watch Over Me (Conrad Toft)
The Cherry Orchard (Sandra Lizioli, John Baldwin)
Three Tall Women (Janet Middleton, Róisín Dore)
Winner A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Front of House / Box Office
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (FoH, Diana Deeks, Box Off Liz Merrill, Michel Didier)
Cafe Theatre (ATC)
Pirates of Penzance (FoH Heather Bathgate; Box Off Steve Stabler)
The Cherry Orchard (FoH Janet Middleton; Box Off Conrad Toft & Sally Gilland)
Winner The Cherry Orchard
Properties
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Andrea Theinert & Donatella Camminante)
The Cherry Orchard (Zsuzsanna Dákai)
The Red Death (Louise Nugent)
Winner A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Costumes
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sheila Hewitt)
The Cherry Orchard (Iona Hamilton & Mossy Roche)
The Red Death (Iona Hamilton)
Winner A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Make up and Hair
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ruth Ivory, Marta Feliu & Sina Naebkhil)
Four Samuel Becket plays (Lionel Brichette)
The Red Death (ECC)
Three Tall Women (Malinda Coleman
Winner A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Set design and/or construction
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS)
Four Samuel Becket plays (Róisín Dore, Malcolm Hiseman, Martin Kirk, Eileen Sutton & Christine Marchand)
The Cherry Orchard (Philip Deeks, Sue Botterell, Marie Horner, John Baldwin, Robert Coleman, Malinda Coleman & Eileen Sutton)
The Yellow Wallpaper (Caraigh McGregor)
Winner Four Samuel Becket plays
Teamwork
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS)
Four Samuel Becket plays (ITG)
The Red Death (ECC)
Winner A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Alan Kenway Memorial Perserverance award
Sue BOTTERELL
Carrie CAUNCE
Paul & Di GRAY
Deborah GRIFFITH
Jim McKENNA
Lyn WAINWRIGHT
Winner Lyn Wainwright
Newcomer
Poppy BULLOCK
Selina CHIARELLI
Ticky CLARK
Nicole FREUND
Noel GRIFFIN
Tim MYERS
Winner Poppy BULLOCK
Audience Prize
Appearance of the urns in Beckett’s Play
Opening scene of ‘Sister of ‘(de Waazin) at FEATS
Ruth England’s one woman performance in Oscar & Lady in Pink
Sixties Dream set in 1969 (flower fight, Puck, Hermia’s heel, Pyramus and Thisbe)
Transformation of Studio in Yellow Wallpaper
Winner Appearance of the urns in Beckett
Musical Moment
Pirates of Penance – (many moments inc. Model of a Modern Major General, foeman bears his steel)
Under Milk Wood – Bess Brooks performing Polly Garter’s song,
Broadway of Lerner and Lowe (chorus and Laura Marino singing The Night They Invented Champagne in Gigi)
The Yellow Wallpaper – ‘Poker Face’
Winner Pirates of Penzance (many moments)
Golden BUTT (for anything)
Sue Botterell for having the good sense to retire as warehouse manager to spend more time with her cats
Carrie Caunce and Malcolm Hiseman for daring to leave you’ll be missed
Martin Kirk for putting this all together and Rory in a vase
Caraigh MacGregor for pushing boundaries with the Yellow Wall Paper
Deborah Griffith for being and never losing her cool
Winner Sue Botterell
Special award for best costume worn to the Buttie’s
Winner Zsuzsanna Dákai (co-presenter, mistress of ceremonies)
For medieval white dress in which she floated in Jim’s pool (also best Ophelia moment)