BUTT Awards 2009-10

Winners are highlighted in bold and underlined.

Best Show 

  • Someone to Watch Over Me (ECC)
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS)
  • Oscar and the Lady in Pink (ATC / BATS)
  • The Red Death (ECC)
  • Three Tall Women (ECC)

Director

  • Deborah Griffith (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
  • Malinda Coleman  (The Cherry Orchard, Oscar and the Lady in Pink)
  • Róisín Dore (Four Samuel Becket plays – All That Fall, Breath, Play, Catastrophe)
  • Janet Middleton (Three Tall Women)
  • Caraigh McGregor (The Yellow Wallpaper)

Actor

  • Colum Hatchell: Edward (Someone to Watch Over Me)
  • 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)
  • Tim Myers: Gayev (The Cherry Orchard); Philip (The Red Death); Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Actress

  • Ruth England: (Oscar and the Lady in Pink)
  • Lyn Wainwright: ‘A’ (Three Tall Women)
  • Ticky Clark: Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

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

Stage Management

  • Sue Botterell The 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

Sound

  • The Red Death (ECC): Glenn Vaughan
  • Pirates of Penzance (BLOC): Nick Heenan
  • The Cherry Orchard (ECC): Carrie Caunce
  • Under Milk Wood (ECC): Carrie Caunce

Lighting

  • The Yellow Wallpaper (ATC): Carsten Koester
  • Four Samuel Becket plays (ITG): Carsten Koester & Róisín Dore
  • Oscar and the Lady in Pink (ATC): Graham Duthie, Alma Forsyth & Róisín Dore
  • The Red Death (ECC): Barbara Daw & Robin Jezek

Publicity Design

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS)
  • Someone to Watch Over Me (ECC): Conrad Toft
  • The Cherry Orchard (ECC): Sandra Lizioli, John Baldwin
  • Three Tall Women (ECC): Janet Middleton, Róisín Dore

Front of House / Box Office

  • The Cherry Orchard (ECC): Janet Middleton, Conrad Toft & Sally Gilland
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS): Diana Deeks, Liz Merrill, Michel Didier
  • Cafe Theatre (ATC)
  • Pirates of Penzance (BLOC): Heather Bathgate, Steve Stabler

Best Props

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS): Andrea Theinert & Donatella Camminante
  • The Cherry Orchard (ECC): Zsuzsanna Dákai
  • The Red Death (ECC): Louise Nugent

Costumes

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS): Sheila Hewitt
  • The Cherry Orchard (ECC): Iona Hamilton & Mossy Roche
  • The Red Death (ECC): Iona Hamilton

Make up and Hair

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS): Ruth Ivory, Marta Feliu & Sina Naebkhil
  • Four Samuel Becket plays (ITG): Lionel Brichette
  • The Red Death (ECC)
  • Three Tall Women (ECC): Malinda Coleman

Set design and/or construction

  • Four Samuel Becket plays (ITG): Róisín Dore, Malcolm Hiseman, Martin Kirk, Eileen Sutton & Christine Marchand
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS)
  • The Cherry Orchard (ECC): Philip Deeks, Sue Botterell, Marie Horner, John Baldwin, Robert Coleman, Malinda Coleman & Eileen Sutton
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (ATC): Caraigh McGregor

Teamwork

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BSS)
  • Four Samuel Becket plays (ITG)
  • The Red Death (ECC)

Alan Kenway Memorial award

  • Sue Botterell
  • Carrie Caunce
  • Paul & Di Gray
  • Deborah Griffith
  • Jim Mckenna
  • Lyn Wainwright

Newcomer

  • Poppy Bullock
  • Selina Chiarelli
  • Ticky Clark
  • Nicole Freund
  • Noel Griffin
  • Tim Myers

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 the Studio for Yellow Wallpaper

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’

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

Special award for best costume worn to the Buttie’s

  • Zsuzsanna Dákai (co-presenter, mistress of ceremonies) for medieval white dress in which she floated in Jim’s pool (also best Ophelia moment)