Thanks a lot to Róisín, Kevin and Rachel for hosting the Butties 2026 in their beautiful garden.

Awards and winners (in bold)

Best Props

Grease (Green Parrot): Richard Milsom, Peter Lemerle
Home, I’m Darling (ECC): Steve O’Byrne, Jeremy Larkin, Kateryna Sakhanevych, Conrad Toft, & team
Homunculus (ECC): Tom Mallan, Patrick Maher, Becky McKay, Erica Faller, & team
Little Shop of Horrors (Smoosicals): Richard Craddock
Puss in Boots (ECC): Michael de Prins, Conrad Toft, Oscar Feen, Steve O’Byrne & team

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (BLOC): Chris Harding, Sergey Morozov, Andrey Kaplan
Grease (Green Parrot, Mar 2026): Lucas Steeno
Homunculus / Trash Day (ECC): Andy Williams, Maja Lay, Chris Nobbs
Little Shop of Horrors (Smoosicals): Andy Williams
Puss in Boots (ECC): Ant McCarthy, Louis Cloetens, Angelos Dimopoulos, Leo Jones & team

Manu Peix: Johnny – Home, I’m Darling (ECC), Male Creek Chorus – How I Learned to Drive (ATC), Orin – Little Shop of Horrors (Smoosicals)
Michael Agotha: Willy Wonka – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (BLOC), Seymour – Little Shop of Horrors (Smoosicals)
Neale Mcdonald: Luka – The Fifth Step (ITG), Clay – Homunculus (ECC)
Paul Musiol: O’Hara – Friends Help You Move (ITG), Patrick – Love In a Glass Jar (ITG)
Rafael Plata: Puss In Boots – Puss In Boots (ECC)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (BLOC): Eva Konrad-Just, Tommaso De Re, Isabelle Deneyer, Emilia Kitsiou, & team
Glensheen (Smoosicals): Emilia Kitsiou
Grease (Green Parrot): Rebecca Milsom
Homunculus (ECC): Ilona Hendrix, Joachim Dos Santos, Katya Sakhanevych
Little Shop of Horrors (Smoosicals): Emilia Kitsiou

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (BLOC): Valeria Enea, Janet Gray, Mel Ciriaco, Laraine Alder, & team
Grease (Green Parrot): Felipa Ferraz, Chloé Van Thielen
Homunculus / Trash Day (ECC): Jennifer Gee, Gemma Santasusana, Martha Mendez
Little Shop of Horrors (Smoosicals): Emilia Kitsiou, Maya Cañizares Jenni Gee & Hazel
Puss in Boots (ECC): Mel Ciriaco, Valeria Enea, Jayne Lindau, Gemma Santasusana

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (BLOC): Andrew Fisk, Mihir Samavedam, Chenoa Burca
Glensheen (Smoosicals): Loren Wiklander, Steve O’Byrne
Grease (Green Parrot): Andrew Fisk, Anton Pavlov, Lucas Steeno
How I Learned to Drive (ATC): Karen El Haddad, Nastassia Maes
Little Shop of Horrors (Smoosicals): Andrew Fisk, Steve O’Byrne

Becky Mckay: Judy – Home, I’m Darling (ECC), Mimi – Homunculus (ECC)
Jacey Schult: Constance – Trash Day (ECC), Simmer – Homunculus (ECC)
Juliana Subach: Rizzo – Grease (Green Parrot)
Maja Lay: Li’l Bit – How I Learned To Drive (ATC)
Victoria Barbazanges: Mrs Teevee – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (BLOC), Marjorie- Glensheen (Smoosicals)

Aravind Dhakshinamoorthy for juggling multiple projects at once and still succeeding
Cat Harris for the puppets in Little Shop of Horrors
Cath Howdle for creating Smoosicals, being involved in several shows and always being a class act
Conrad Toft for the sheer quantity of things he does on and off stage
Esther Pozo Vera for juggling directing, acting, chairing BSS & parenthood

20 shows included in the Butties this season, five of which were double bills:

Nine groups, including two new ones (in bold) for 2025-2026:

A few fun stats:

1213 entries in the programmes for this year
625 different people appeared in the programmes (and about 660 names, given all the misspellings and different versions!)
The person mentioned the most times was Andrew Fisk (15)
The person involved in the most shows was Steve O’Byrne (8)
The person involved with the most groups was Tommaso De Re (5)
The people who have been in the audience for most shows were Manu Peix & Conrad Toft (12)
186 people voted in the Butties
8 people tried voting for themselves!