BUTT Awards 2010 – Results

For each award the nominees are listed in alphabetical order, with the winner in bold type

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)

(Someone to Watch Over Me tied with A Midsummer Night’s Dream on votes received; audience present on the day selected a winner  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)

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:  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

Nick Heenan: Pirates of Penzance
Carrie Caunce: The Cherry Orchard
Glenn Vaughan: The Red Death
Carrie Caunce: Under Milk Wood

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)

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)

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)

Properties

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

Costumes

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

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

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)

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 Studio in 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

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