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TMA Theatre Awards 2008

Winners were announced at a ceremony on 26 October at Hampstead Theatre. 

Winners are shown in bold below. 

Best Performance in a Play
Brenda Blethyn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Keith Fleming & Gerry Mulgrew for PEER GYNT at Dundee Rep
Katherine Tozer for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Nuffield Southampton

Best Supporting Performance in a Play
Roger Delves-Broughton for JOURNEY’S END at the Mercury, Colchester
Tony Haygarth for Theatre Royal Bath Productions’ PYGMALION on Tour
Kate O’Flynn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s THE CHILDREN’S HOUR 

Best Performance in a Musical 
Brian Conley for THE MUSIC MAN at Chichester Festival Theatre
Kathryn Evans for SUNSET BOULEVARD at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury
Rachel Tucker for THE WIZARD OF OZ at the Lyric, Belfast

Best Supporting Performance in a Musical
Helena Blackman for SOUTH PACIFIC on tour
Martin Ball for MARY POPPINS on tour
Claire Sundin for THE HIRED MAN on tour 

Best Director 
Michael Boyd for THE HISTORIES at RSC Stratford-Upon-Avon
Steven Berkoff for ON THE WATERFRONT at Nottingham Playhouse
Yael Farber for MOLORA at Oxford Playhouse

Best Touring Production
National Theatre of Scotland’s BLACK WATCH
Shared Experience/National Theatre’s WAR AND PEACE presented by Shared Experience, Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company and Hampstead Theatre
Frantic Assembly and Drum Theatre, Plymouth’s STOCKHOLM

Best Musical Production
DON GIOVANNI at the New Victoria, Newcastle Under Lyme
ONCE UPON A TIME AT THE ADELPHI at the Playhouse, Liverpool
MOON LANDING at Derby Playhouse 

Best New Play 
CONTRACTIONS by Mike Bartlett, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court
THE PITMEN PAINTERS by Lee Hall at Live Theatre, Newcastle
TEN TINY TOES by Esther Wilson, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse in associaton with Shared Experience at the Everyman, Liverpool

Best Set Design
Douglas Heap for DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR based on an idea by Miriam Guretzki at the Belgrade Coventry
Christopher Woods for ONCE UPON A TIME AT THE ADELPHI at Playhouse Liverpool
Mike Britton for LADY FROM THE SEA at Birmingham Rep

Best Lighting Design
The Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s THE CHILDREN’S HOUR designed by Mick Hughes
EQUUS designed by David Hersey on tour
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN designed by Richard G Jones, York Theatre Royal at The National Railway Museum


Best Show for Children and Young People
Polka Theatre and Fevered Sleep’s BRILLIANT, devised and directed by David Harradine at Polka Theatre
LOOKING FOR JJ, adapted from Anne Cassidy’s novel by Marcus Romer, Pilot Theatre in association with York Theatre Royal and Unicorn Theatre on tour
THE EMPEROR’S NEW KILT By Andy Cannon and Iain Johnstone, based on The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen, Wee Stories/National Theatre of Scotland on tour

Achievement in Dance
Cloudgate Dance Theatre of Taiwan for choreographer Lin Hwai-Min’s MOON WATER, a stunning blend of Eastern and Western arts.
Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita for MISCHIEF, an enormously playful collage of movement, music and visual arts designed to delight the whole family.
Rambert Dance Company for reviving two British contemporary dance landmarks – Siobhan Davies’ CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS (1982) and Christopher Bruce’s SWANSONG (1987)

Achievement in Opera
Glyndebourne’s HANSEL UND GRETEL
Opera North for its summer Shakespeare season of MACBETH, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and ROMEO ET JULIETTE
Scottish Opera’s A NIGHT AT THE CHINESE OPERA
Welsh National Opera’s THE SACRIFICE

The Stage Award for Special Achievement in Regional Theatre
Latitude Festival

The Special Award for Individual Achievement
Bill Kenwright

 
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