December 5, 2009
THE CHAPMAN KIP THEATRE AWARDS 2009!
HACKMAN posted 11 Nov 2009, 11:23 AM / edited 2 Dec 2009, 10:09 AM
THE CHAPMAN KIP THEATRE AWARDS 2009!
From a New Zealand farm, to Eli’s bedroom, to the gates of Heaven, Wellington has seen some extraordinary theatre in 2009. To celebrate HACKMAN is proud to present the annual Chapman Kip Theatre Awards!
The Gala evening will celebrate all the fantastic moments of the 2009 theatre scene and highlight specific moments of magic from the over 100 plays that were produced during the year.
The awards night will be hosted by the fabulous Heather O’Carroll and the sexy Toby Leach and will include acceptance speeches and spot prizes.
HACKMAN will be hosting the ceremony at the revered BATS Theatre at 10pm on Friday the 4th of December. There will be drinks available at the PIT Bar and everyone is expected to DANCE! Entry by Koha.
A skype booth will link you to Auckland where a similar event will be taking place. This will offer everyone the chance to catch up with their theatre friends electronically. (BE WARNED! The Aucklanders will already be boozed by the time your awards start.)
If you would like to SPONSOR AN AWARD or donate a spot prize please contact Kip Chapman at kipchapman@gmail.com
Please be aware that this event is in no way related to the awesome Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards and is purely designed for fun. Please also be aware that the judging will be slightly unfair.
See you at the show!
HACKMAN
“Partying like it’s 1999” since 2002
www.hackman.co.nz
The Chapman Kip Theatre Awards 2009!
POST YOUR NOMINATIONS NOW!
Categories:
The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year…
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year…
The Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Best Costume of the Year…
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year…
The OUT OF BOUNDS Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
The CAPITAL E Award for Best Accent of the Year…
The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play
The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry…
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
Best Stage Manager of the Year…
Best Technical ***k Up of the Year…
Best Dry of the Year…
The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year…
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year…
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year…
The NZ FRINGE FESTIVAL lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night…
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy…
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play…
The K’RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play…
(Copy and paste the categories and write your picks in the forum below.)
Good Luck everyone!
Love
HACKMAN!
Michael Wray posted 11 Nov 2009, 11:08 PM
I’ll start then. Just a few nominations so far. I need to go back and check what happened this year (so may change the below noms once my memory has been jogged).
The Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Live at Six. Slick.
Best Costume of the Year…
I was going to go for The Brainless Brothers in Bedlam, but the combination of Ricky Dey and Yvette Parsons in Entertaining Mr Sloane is not something I’ll forget in a hurry!
Smallest Part of the Year…
The detective in Once Upon a Time in Aro Valley – didn’t even get a program credit for his 5 seconds.
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
That has to be Ms Paul Harrop in Postal.
Best Accent of the Year…
Nick Dunbar in Le Sud – was tempted to nominate his Gallic nymphomania under the medical condition category too.
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy…
Tough one.
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Jean Sergent in A Most Outrageous Humbug – still find myself humming that haunting tune.
Michael Wray posted 11 Nov 2009, 11:25 PM
Does Toby Leach on crutches in Betrayal count as medical condition when it wasn’t technically the character?
Eleanor Bishop posted 11 Nov 2009, 11:39 PM
Best Entrance of the Year…Claire O’Loughlin plus weed blower – Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish or Rowan Bettjeman’s Freddie – shirtless American football player in A Brief History of Helen of Troy
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Ralph McCubbin Howell / Thom McGrath as two Edgar Allen Poe’s fighting each other (A Most Outrageous Humbug) or Rose Guise (Animal Hour) complete with balloon animals for spewing intestines
The Award for Best Poster of the Year…Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish
Best Costume of the Year…Simon Haren’s white unitard as Richard II (VUW) or Death’s costume in Charm is Not Enough (taking up the entire back wall of BATS) or Ricky Dey (in leather suit in Entertaining Mr Sloane)
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…Natalie Medlock as Bob (pedo) in Song for the Ugly Kids
Best Accent of the Year…Nick Dunbar in Le Sud or Erin Banks in The Clean House (Portuguese)
Best Weapon of the Year…Weaponized origami or a porcleain elephant (Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants).
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year…Jack Shadbolt in The Blackening or Natalie Medlock (no head) in Song for the Ugly Kids
Best Pash of the Year… Rachel Forman / Dean O’Gorman – Blood Wedding
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…Le Sud – co-ordinated cigarette lighting is always hot.
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play…Death (Milo Haigh) in Charm is not Enough
Best Dancing in a Play…Measure for Measure ensemble to “Teenage Kicks” (Three Spoon Theatre’s Vienna Verona)
Angela Green posted 12 Nov 2009, 12:43 PM / edited 12 Nov 2009, 03:35 PM
Best Break up of the Year… Rowan Bettjeman spitting on Erin Banks (twice) in Helen of Troy
Best Entrance of the Year… Stuart McKenzie in Biography of My Skin
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… The lass in Animal Hour. It went on and on and on and on and involved balloons I think.
The Award for Best Poster of the Year…Death and the dreamlife of elephants/Good Night The End/Drowning Bird Plummeting Fish
Best Costume of the Year…The Panda in Drowning Bird Plummeting Fish
Smallest Part of the Year… the fact that I can’t think of any means you are all huge in my eyes. Boom.
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Lee Smith Gibbons as one of the astronauts in Apollo 13 was super hot. Well, it was in Auckland so can you courier pigeon my vote up there?
Best Accent of the Year…Nick Dunbar in Le Sud
Best Weapon of the Year…cowardly custard pseudonyms on Theatreview
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year…Peter Haydn in The Raft. Seriously moving stuff.
Best Pash of the Year… I’m sure there was a pash gone wrong in Postal, wasn’t there? I remember Simon Smith nearly vomiting about something. Awesome.
A lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night… why thank you.
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy…Aaron Cortesi with special mention going to Andrew Foster for his slightly shorter version.
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…Bedlam
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play…Romy Hooper in Bedlam, and as something to look forward to, I pick Asalemo Tofete in An Adagio Christmas
Best Dancing in a Play…The Reapers in Good Night The End
Uther Dean posted 12 Nov 2009, 03:03 PM
Best Break Up of the Year – The whole of Blood Wedding
Best Entrance of the Year – Sophie Hambletron in Rudey Trudey
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year – Rose Guise in Animal Hour
The Award for Best Poster of the Year – Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish
Best Costume of the Year – Death in Charm is Not Enough or The Panda in Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish and Animal Hour
Smallest Part of the Year – Ralph McCubbin Howell in Measure for Measure, he’s only in the video trailer or Johnny Harrison in The Intricate Art of Actually Caring
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year – Natalie Medlock as Bob in A Song for Ugly Kids
Best Accent of the Year – Erin Banks in The Clean House
Best Weapon of the Year – Video editing in Live at Six
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year – Peter Haydn in The Raft or, bias as I am and if being a dog counts, Paul Waggott as Floyd in Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy – Uh… Andrew Foster?
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year – ViennaVerona by Three Spoon
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play – The cast of Bedlam
Best Dancing in a Play – the opening of Measure for Measure
Eleanor Bishop posted 12 Nov 2009, 03:23 PM
I also support a nomination for Johnny Harrison for smallest part of the year for his performance in The Intricate Art of Actually Caring. Johnny gave an admirable performance via Facebook. His memory lives on at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1293701563&ref=ts. Become his friend!
Michael Wray posted 12 Nov 2009, 03:29 PM
But will he accept. And if so, spooky – you can still access Facebook when you’re dead!
Jackson Coe posted 13 Nov 2009, 03:42 PM / edited 14 Nov 2009, 12:21 AM
For Smallest Role of the Year I would like to nominate Kent Robinson’s Buttocks, which appeared all too briefly in Becoming the Courtesan.
John Smythe posted 14 Nov 2009, 09:52 AM / edited 14 Nov 2009, 02:52 PM
This is the 2009 theatre line-up (so far) for Wellington. It (hopefully) includes all the Fringe Theatre, Compleate Workes project, improv and non stand-up comedy fest productions reviewed in Theatreview – not forgetting 2 shows that opened too late for last year’s awards (Cynthia’s Christmas and Christmas Indoors) and 5 shows yet to open this year There are 115 shows in this list. (Please advise if anything is missing.)
2009 – A SPACE ODDITY at Newtown Community Centre
5 – STIR-FRIED SKETCH COMEDY at Paramount Theatre Foyer
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY at BATS
A MIME TO KILL at BATS
A MOST OUTRAGEOUS HUMBUG at Waimapihi Reserve
A NIGHT WITH BEAU TYLER at Downstage Theatre
A SONG FOR THE UGLY KIDS at BATS
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE at Circa Two
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL? at Tararua Tramping Club
ANIMAL HOUR at Wellington Performing Arts Centre
BANG BANG YOU’RE DEAD at Kapiti College
BECOMING THE COURTESAN – A REMARKABLE SEDUCTION at BATS
BEDLAM at Basement Theatre, Te Whaea
BETRAYAL at Circa One
BIOGRAPHY OF MY SKIN at Downstage Theatre
BLOOD WEDDING at Circa One
BOOMERANG LEAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL FROM OUTER SPACE at Happy
BREAKING THE 5TH WALL – OR WHAT IS HUMOUR? at BATS
BUD at BATS
BUDDHA BOY at BATS
CHARM IS NOT ENOUGH at BATS
CHRISTIE IN LOVE at Southern Cross
CHRISTMAS INDOORS at BATS
CINDERELLA at 4 Moncrieff St., Mt. Victoria
COLLAPSING CREATION at Downstage Theatre
COLONY! + GRIMM at Wellington Performing Arts Centre
CONFESSIONS OF A DRAG QUEEN at BATS – opens 25 Nov
CYNTHIA’S CHRISTMAS AT CIRCA at Circa Two
DEATH AND THE DREAMLIFE OF ELEPHANTS at Bats
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE at Dransfield House
DESTINATION: DEATH at BATS
DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT at Circa One – opens 14 Nov
DOLORES at BATS
DOUBLE PORTRAIT at NZ Portrait Gallery – opens 27 Nov
DROWNING BIRD, PLUMMETING FISH at BATS
DUET: FALLING IN LOVE…AGAIN + OFFICE FYI: A MUSICAL at Mary Newton Gallery
ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE at Circa Two
FAUST CHROMA at Gryphon
FIREWORKS at Southern Cross
FOUR FLAT WHITES IN ITALY at Circa One
GAS at BATS – opens 24 Nov
GOD OF CARNAGE at Circa One
GOOD NIGHT – THE END at Downstage Theatre
HANSEL AND GRETEL at BATS
HATCH – OR THE PLIGHT OF THE PENGUINS at Circa Two
HEDDA GABLER at BATS
HENRY V at Studio 77 Amphitheatre
HENRY VI PART 1 at Union Hall, VUW
INSTRUCTIONS TO A DOUBLE at Mighty Mighty
KEEP IT RURAL at BATS
KIA ORA KHALID at Opera House
KING RICHARD THE SECOND at Studio 77
KRESKINNED: THE NATURAL CANADIAN DATE DRUG at Happy
LANTERN at BATS
LE SUD at Downstage Theatre
LIES & OTHER STORIES BEFORE BED at Southern Cross
LIVE AT SIX at BATS
LOST: SHADES at Happy
MATES & LOVERS at BATS
MOTHER LOVE at Gryphon
MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE at Downstage
NOT VACANT at BATS
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ARO VALLEY at BATS
OPHELIA THINKS HARDER at Gryphon
OTHELLO POLYNESIA at Downstage Theatre
PERICLES at Studio 77, VUW
POLY-ZYGOTIC at BATS
POST GAY at BATS
POSTAL at BATS
POWER AND PERSUASION at Philosophy House
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL at Circa One
RUDEY TRUDEY at Inverlochy Art School
SEASONS at Capital E
SERENDIPITY at BATS
SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED at 4 Moncrieff St
STARLIGHT EXPRESS at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf
STEALING GAMES at Capital E
STEEL BALLERINA at BATS
STRANGE RESTING PLACES at Downstage Theatre
SUITCASE at BATS
TALK TO THE HAND – AN IMPROV PUPPET SHOW at Circa Two
TE RADAR’S EATING THE DOG at BATS
THE 39 STEPS at Circa One
THE AFFAIR OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE at St James Theatre
THE ALTRUISTS at BATS
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER at 4 Moncrieff St
THE BLACKENING at BATS
THE BURN at BATS
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE at Te Whaea
THE CLEAN HOUSE at Circa One
THE CONCHUS SEASON at BATS
THE FROGS UNDER THE WATERFRONT at Meet at Mac’s Brewery
THE HISTORY OF CARDENIO at Studio 77
THE INTRICATE ART OF ACTUALLY CARING at Glover Park | Eli’s Bedroom
THE MANY OTHER LIVES OF MARIA MADNESS at Wellington Performing Arts Centre
THE MINISTER’S SON at BATS
THE MOUNTAIN at Katipo Cafe & Bar
THE NAVIGATORS at Queens Wharf Square
THE PIRADICALS at The Moorings,
THE PRAGMATIC at Wellington Performing Arts Centre
THE RAFT at Downstage Theatre
THE SKYROCKETEERS OF JUSTICE VS THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE at BATS
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at Muritai School Yard
THE VERTICAL HOUR at Circa One
TICK, TICK… BOOM! at The Garden Club
TITUS at WPAC – from 4 Dec
TURBINE at Downstage Theatre
TWO DAY PLAYS (NZ) – DRAFT TWO at BATS
U GOT BUSH! at BATS
VIENNA VERONA at BATS
WELLINGSIN CITY at Fringe Bar
WHERE ARE YOU MY ONLY ONE? at Circa Two
WHERO’S NEW NET at Downstage Theatre
WOLF’S LAIR at BATS
WORDS APART at BATS
YEAR OF THE RAT at Circa Two
YOUNG AND HUNGRY 09 – WELLINGTON at BATS
Nick Zwart posted 14 Nov 2009, 11:10 AM
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… paul harrop in postal!
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… jack shadbolt
Erin Banks posted 16 Nov 2009, 01:00 PM / edited 1 Dec 2009, 12:32 PM
Best Break up of the Year… Simon Smith and Paul Harrop in Postal
Best Entrance of the Year… Ralph Upton’s TV presenter trying to sneak in on a carpet of bubble wrap in Animal Hour.
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… **SPOILER ALERT** The demise of Joseph Grieves in Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
The Award for Best Poster(s) of the Year… A Most Outrageous Humbug (in particular the one featuring Alex Lodge with a haunting consumptive blood trickle).
Best Costume of the Year… Milo Haigh’s Bats-Spanning Death outfit in Charm is Not Enough
Smallest Part of the Year… RIP – Johnny Harrison in the Intricate Art of Actually Caring
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Mistress Paul Harrop in Postal
Best Accent of the Year… Simon Vincent (Northern English, Russian and Scottish) in Year of the Rat
Best Weapon of the Year… The pin in Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… Paul Waggot. Leprechaunism. Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
Best Pash of the Year… Mercutio (Allan Henry) and Josie (Sophie Hambleton) at the Capulet ball in Vienna Verona
A lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night… I nominate Aaron Cortesi, the award for BEST.
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy…Andrew Foster
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants.
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play…The cast of The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Best Dancing in a Play… Veronica Brady’s Tom Waits-esque dancing as ‘Peter the Porter’ in Bedlam
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… “Caught up in the minds of all those jazz junk juggernauts, who spoke so proudly and fondly of “twats” and “c**ts” and strange deep roots in scum hotels, because real love is all about grimy chauvinism.” Eli Kent – The Intricate Art of Actually caring
Kate Prior posted 16 Nov 2009, 09:14 PM / edited 16 Nov 2009, 09:15 PM
Best Costume: Yvette Parsons setting the scene for seduction in Entertaining Mr Sloane.
Brianne Kerr posted 17 Nov 2009, 02:33 PM
* Best Break up of the Year… Rowan Bettjeman and Erin Banks – A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY
* Best Entrance of the Year… Debs Rea and her chicken fillets – SIT ON IT (Y&H 09)
* Best Death of the Year… Jamie Burgess – BECOMING THE COURTESAN
* Best Poster of the Year… MADE IN NZ – FOOTNOTE DANCE (the North & South Island Dancers – awesome!)
* Best Costume of the Year… Karen Anslow (Paul Jenden) – BECOMING THE COURTESAN
* Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Natalie Medlock – A SONG FOR THE UGLY KIDS
* Best Accent of the Year… Andrea Tutt (Russian) – WHERE ARE YOU MY ONLY ONE?
* Best Weapon of the Year… Richard Dey – ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE
* Best Pash of the Year… Richard Dey and Yvette Parsons – ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE
* Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy… Mr Aaron Cortesi – GOODNIGHT THE END
* Best Ensemble acting of the Year… SIT ON IT (Y&H 09)
* Best Singing in a Play… Phil Vaughan – LIVE AT SIX
* Best Dancing in a Play… Princess Te Puea Whioke – THE CONCHUS SEASON
Nell Williams posted 17 Nov 2009, 02:58 PM
Best Break up of the Year… Simon Smith/Paul Harrop POSTAL
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Sophie Hambleton, Ridey Trudey
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Milo Haigh, CINE (the only Death this year, as far as I’m concerned)
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… Collapsing Creation
Best Costume of the Year… The Fat Prince, Caucasian Chalk Circle
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… woever teched on the night I sw A Biography of My Skin
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Paul Harrop, POSTAL
Best Accent of the Year… Sophie Roberts, Wolf’s Lair
Best Technical ***k of the Year… this caregory really needs more explanation.. Best technical fuck up? Most impressive tech whizz? Person or event? For genuine bests or is this a gnome for serious technical failure?
Best Dry of the Year… que?
Best Weapon of the Year… tuberulosis, Humbug
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… Al Lodge, tuberculosis, Humbug
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… Sion Smith/Paul Harrop POSTAL
A lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night… yeah, Anneliese Mudge, CLEARLY.
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy… nope.
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… the cast of the Caucasian Chalk Circle
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… the Cast, “Peter the Porter”, Bedlam
Best Dancing in a Play… the Cast “Teenage Kicks” Measure for Measure.
Jo OSullivan posted 17 Nov 2009, 03:34 PM
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… CHARM IS NOT ENOUGH
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year.. Romeo and Juliet
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… CHARM IS NOT ENOUGH Jaci Gwaliasi
Rachel Lenart posted 17 Nov 2009, 11:30 PM
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Milo Haige. Charmed is not Enough. As Death.
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… Collapsing Creation
Best Costume of the Year… Ricky Dey- Entertaining Mr Sloane. All of them
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… Alex Lodge, Romeo and Juliet
Best Accent of the Year… The pig in Year of the Rat. And Boxer, Year of the Rat
Best Technical ***k of the Year.. Intricate Art. Best use of Bedroom ever.
Best Weapon of the Year.. Paint Rollers in Romeo and Juliet
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… Ricky and Yvette in Sloane
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy… hmmm..
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Cast of Richard ii! and Most Outrageous Humbug
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… A most Outrageous Humbug
Best Dancing in a Play… Charmed is not enough
Rachel Lenart posted 18 Nov 2009, 12:07 AM
oops, have mis read best technical ***k as best technical ***t. My nomination relates to technical shit.. not the other. Sorry.
Robin Kerr posted 18 Nov 2009, 01:36 AM
Smallest Part of the Year – A Most Outrageous Humbug – The side of Edgar Allen Poe’s personality that didn’t do or say all that much
Best Accent – Song For the Ugly Kids – Dan Williams – ‘Giant Pen’ Asian stereotype man.
Best Dry – Animal Hour – Fiona McNamara/Simon Haren (depending on who could handle it) – the rather wet ‘drying’ through the drinking game at the end. Heard of corpsing, but vomiting anyone?
Best Dancing – Charm is Not Enough – Sperm suited ensemble
Best Entrance – Goodnight, The End – Aaron Cortesi – floor, roof, nautical ascent through picture frame – brilliant.
Best Weapon – Strange Resting Places – Flour used to show the bombing of Monte Cassino
Best Cross Gender Acting – The Blackening – Jack Shadbolt – presented onstage doubling as Jed Brophy’s childhood sweetheart (initially laughable when assumed to be a poor staging choice but then revealed to be the sick and twisted truth)
Best Technical F*ck Up – The Blackening – Jack Shadbolt/Design – ‘You’ve fixed it!’ (pointing to a clearly unfixed Go-Kart)
Best Costume – The Caucasian Chalk Circle – Kate McGill/Emma Ransley – The Fat Prince
Best Death – The Intricate Art of Actually Caring – The Pig and/or Johnny Harrison
Best Poster – The Skyrocketeers of Justice vs. the Zombie Apocalypse
Best Disability – Turbine – Tim Spite
John Smythe posted 18 Nov 2009, 10:29 AM / edited 18 Nov 2009, 11:22 AM
Best Break up of the Year…
– Agreed: Simon Smith & Paul Harrop in Postal
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
– Miranda Harcourt then Stuart McKenzie, 2nd half entrances via suitcase in Biography of my Skin (and if there was an award for it, Miranda’s exit via same at the end of the 1st half).
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year…
– Allan Henry in Vienna Verona’s Romeo and Juliet – and Henry V and Henry VI Part 1 (did he die in both of those?) – OK it’s not so much the deaths as the fights leading up to them.
The Award for Best Poster of the Year…
– I agree with Brie, the Footnote North & South Islands poster
Best Costume of the Year…
– I agree with Erin: Milo Haigh’s frock in Death Is Not Enough
Smallest Part of the Year…
– whoever played Rosaline in Vienna Verona’s Romeo and Juliet (she was at the party wasn’t she?).
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
– I agree – Paul Harrop in Postal
Best Accent of the Year…
– Andrea Tutt, from Russia wanting love, in Where Are You My Only One?
Best Technical ***k of the Year…
– [does this mean best technical f**k as opposed to an intimate and romantic one or is it about a technical f**k up?] If the latter I nominate the posting of this category.
Best Dry of the Year…
– aaah … it’s coming to me ….
Best Weapon of the Year…
– The slings and arrows of outrageous poetry in Frogs Under the Waterfront
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year…
– Jo Randerson as Harvester of Sorrow, in denial about her condition, in Good-Night – The End
The CAROLINE and DAVE ARMSTRONG Award for Best Pash of the Year…
– Simon Smith and Paul Harrop in Postal
A lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night…
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy…
– Smoko de Milo or its most excellent exponent, Aaron Coirtesi’s L’amministrazione
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
– James Conway-Law, Laurel Devenie, Rawiri Jobe, Suzanne Tye in Gary Henderson’s Stealing Games, (superbly directed for Capital E by Murray Lynch)
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play…
– the cast of The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Best Dancing in a Play…
– Gavin Rutherford, Andrea Tutt and Donna Akersten in Where Are You My Only One?
Ralph Upton posted 18 Nov 2009, 04:35 PM / edited 18 Nov 2009, 05:03 PM
Best Break up of the Year… I’m not sure they were together as such, but Rowan Bettjeman and Erin Banks – A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Simon Haren, strolling over the plebs’ shoulders to a trapeze, in RICHARD II
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… everyone except the Italian in GOODNIGHT THE END
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… SKYROCKETEERS OF JUSTICE VS THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
Best Costume of the Year… Yvette Parsons in ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… Johnny Harrison- too minor to be overlooked in THE INTRICATE ART OF ACTUALLY CARING but I think Jacob Weatherhead as Henry VI in HENRY V deserves a nod. Cause he is very small.
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Jack Shadbolt (seemingly, briefly, unsettlingly) in THE BLACKENING
Best Dry of the Year… Rachel Baker following the “encounter on that grassy bit outside Te Papa” story in DROWNING BIRD, PLUMMETING FISH
Best Weapon of the Year… Rubbish bin lids and paint rollers in ROMEO AND JULIET
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… for gusto, the one in COLONY!
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy… I’d like to take this moment to suggest Paul Waggot get some kind of award for his delivery of the line “I’m gunna take a piss” in DEATH AND THE DREAM LIFE OF ELEPHANTS. And that you go and see it.
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
brad knewstubb posted 19 Nov 2009, 11:11 AM
HACKMAN would like to formally apologise for ***king up the TECHNICAL ***K UP section. It now reads as it should – the Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year!
We wish you a merry Christmas!
HACKMAN
Rachel Lenart posted 19 Nov 2009, 12:17 PM
Thanks for clarifying Hackman. If this is the case i would like to nominate Kyla Walker, sound designer, sadly in a posthumous capacity, for the sudden appearance of an incredibly loud Zip in the middle of a tranquil graden scene in Richard ii. Kyla will be remembered for much greater artistic contributions than this ***k up, she was an incredibly talented lady, but this was a wonderful highlight of the theatre year for me.
Anna Harcourt posted 20 Nov 2009, 02:42 PM
The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year… Simon Smith and Paul Harrop, POSTAL
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Stuart McKenzie, suitcase, BIOGRAPHY OF MY SKIN.
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Romeo. Then Juliet. VIENNA VERONA
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… RUDEY TRUDEY.
Best Costume of the Year… Hayden Frost, in the final scene of COLNY!
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… Ally Garret, Rosaline, VIENNA VERONA.
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Paul Harrop, POSTAL. Of course.
Best Accent of the Year… Sophie Roberts, WOLF’S LAIR
The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play… The bubble wrap in ANIMAL HOUR. Or Mr. Cornelius Crooke snapping the fingers of Dr. Baxter in BEDLAM. *Shudder*.
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… Anything from LIVE AT SIX. Unfortunately I didn’t memorise any of the lines while I was watching, so can’t be more specific.
Best Stage Manager of the Year… Pat McIntosh, BLOOD WEDDING. All that sand, every night.
The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year… All street fighting stuff in Rom + Julz. Or the sheep treatment in BEDLAM.
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… Jack Shadbolt, THE BLACKENING
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… Rachel Forman and Dean O’Gorman, BLOOD WEDDING
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
Best Dancing in a Play… MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Or DEATH AND THE DREAM LIFE OF ELEPHANTS, the party scene. One of the shadows was really groovin’ it.
Kate McGill posted 30 Nov 2009, 08:23 PM
from Sophie Hambleton and Kate McGill who have too many fantastic friends and colleagues to nominate… so this was done in the heat of the moment.
The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year… ROSALIND AND ROMEO IN VIENNA VERONA
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… STUART MCKENZIE IN BIOGRAPHY OF MY SKIN
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… EMMETT SKILTON IN BEDLAM
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… BLOOD WEDDING
Best Costume of the Year… P HAMBY’S ZIP-OFF PANTS IN 4 FAT WHITES
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… ALLY GARRETT IN VIENNA VERONA.
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… PAUL HARROP
Best Accent of the Year… ANDREA TUTT AND SOPHIE ROBERTS (SEPARATELY…)
The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play… MIRANDA HARCOURT’S CHILDREN IN BIOGRAPHY OF MY SKIN
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… “TOGETHER WE’RE GOING TO CLEAN UP BEDLAM” – BEDLAM ELI KENT
Best Stage Manager of the Year… PAT MCINTOSH FOR BLOOD WEDDING AND 39 STEPS
The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year… R + J PAINT ROLLERS
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… TOBY LEACH IN BETRAYAL
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… CATHY DOWNES AND P HAMBY IN COLLAPSING CREATION
A lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night… P. HAMBY FOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE ARTS
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy… ANDREW FOSTER
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… SOPHIE VOTES CAUCASIAN KATE VOTES BLOOD WEDDING
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… CAUCASIAN AND HUMBUG AND CARMEL MCGLONE + SOPHIE ROBERTS IN BLOOD WEDDING
The K’RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play… MEASURE FOR MEASURE AND YVETTE PARSONS IN GAS
Kate McGill posted 30 Nov 2009, 08:24 PM / edited 30 Nov 2009, 08:25 PM
that would be fLat whites… sorry Dad- Soph xx
Dean Hewison posted 30 Nov 2009, 08:59 PM
The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year… Rowan & Erin, Helen of Troy
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Debs Rea, Sit on It, closely followed by the rest of that cast
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Milo from Charm
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… Actually, going with Animal Hour’s flyer that you could fold into a frog. Brilliant.
Best Costume of the Year… The 3 story girl’s dress from the Long Cloud Youth Theatre play in the Two Day Plays final.
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… Kent Robinson’s buttocks, Becoming the Courtesan
The OUT OF BOUNDS Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Paul Harrop, Postal
Best Accent of the Year… Aaron Cortesi, Goodnight, The End
The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play… Finger-snapping, Bedlam
Best Stage Manager of the Year… Chelsea Adams (stage-managed over 45 plays in 8 days for Two Day Plays)
The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year… Rollers and Lids, Romeo & Juliet
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… I liked Simon Smith in Postal, he oozed disability.
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… Simon Smith vs Paul Harrop, Postal
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… Surely it’s me in Live at Six. Search For a Hero? M People? No? Harsh.
The K’RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play… Measure For Measure cast
Dean Hewison posted 30 Nov 2009, 09:01 PM
Nominations close midnight Thursday Dec 3rd. Everybody who nominates will be put into a draw for a rad prize.
Please note that the time of the Chapman Kips this Friday has moved to 10:30pm. This is because it will be in the theatre after Hot Pink Bits. Still come at 10 and get your Pit pre-drinks on.
Dean Hewison posted 30 Nov 2009, 10:30 PM / edited 30 Nov 2009, 10:32 PM
And finally, let’s not dare forget the vibrant discussions in last year’s Chapman Kip forum, all of which is just as relevant today. Except the plays, they’re so 2008.
Phil De Fur posted 30 Nov 2009, 11:59 PM / edited 1 Dec 2009, 07:54 AM
The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year…
Rachel Forman, Dean O’Gorman and Jade Daniels for Blood Wedding. A Menage a Tois would’ve sorted it all out.
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… The assorted ghosts of Miranda Harcourt’s past on the big screen for Biography of my Skin
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Milo Haigh as Death in Charmed is Not Enough. Death never looked so hawt.
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… Geraldine Brophy for Blood Wedding. The anti-MILF.
Best Costume of the Year… Peter Hambleton’s sideburns in Collapsing Creation – actually took ten years OFF his appearance when you saw him in real life
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… To the Italian in tight pants in a Joe Randerson comedy
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Geraldine Brophy for Blood Wedding
Best Accent of the Year… Nick Dunbar in Le Sud – you could smell the escargot on his corpulent breath
Best Stage Manager of the Year… Pat McIntosh for all she’s done in 2009 (but especially for The 39 Steps)
The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year… Adam Page for the way he wielded his sax like a mighty super-tuned phallus. Total sax appeal.
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… Well if being under the influence of helium / nitrous oxide is a medical condition, then the little dude in Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
A lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night… To Willem Wassenaar for enduring Fringe Awards host Derek Flores’s bald-headed barbs at the awards
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Cast of The 39 Steps, with a nod to Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants for their expertly choreographed movements
The K’RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play… Steel Ballerina’s Pagan Dorman – well it was about a dancer wasn’t it?
Fiona McNamara posted 1 Dec 2009, 03:05 AM
Best Break up of the Year…Rose Guise breaking up wiht Ralph Upton/ the audience, while dying, Animal Hour
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Amelia Wilcox on stilts, with an axe, chasing two Bishops during Argincort, Henry V
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Miiiiiilooooooooooooo
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… I support Mr Hewison’s nom.
Best Costume of the Year…Ralph McCubbin Howell and Tom McGrath’s upper lips in A Most Outrageous Humbug, runner up:the ‘souls’ in the Burn,
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Natalie Medlock as Bob, Song for the Ugly Kids
Best Accent: Natalie Medlock as Bob, Song for the Ugly Kids. Just award her.
Best Technical ***k of the Year…I’d like to give a commendation for not fucking up to Uther Dean, who as lighting op for Cardenio sat in the audience reading and got up once or twice to stroll over the lighting board and press a button, then returned to his book.
Best Dry of the Year… These are just words… I don’t know what this sentance means
Best Weapon of the Year… The Archbishop (David Goldthorpe) and Bishop (James Barber) wielding a Bible and Crucifix in Henry V
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… as two chracters- Phylli Jason-Smith and Ally Garett. Colony.
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… Christiana Brookes ad Karen Anslow, WIT’s Two Day Plays Entry
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy…
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… The puppets in Sammy J
Best Dancing in a Play… David Goldthorpe’s hand-puppetry to illustrate the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Salic Law Speech, Henry V AND Blair Strang and Wesley Dowdell: the Haka in Whero’s New Net
Uther Dean posted 1 Dec 2009, 02:31 PM / edited 1 Dec 2009, 02:39 PM
Best Technical ***k of the Year…I’d like to give a commendation for not f***ing up to Uther Dean, who as lighting op for Cardenio sat in the audience reading and got up once or twice to stroll over the lighting board and press a button, then returned to his book.
As hilarious as that is and as much as I wish it to be true it isn’t.
While I did on occasion read (Richard Fyneman’s Five Easy Pieces, if you’re interested) while operating Cardy (it was three hours long with only a dozen or so lighting cues and I had seen it multiple times before operating it so never even came close to missing a cue) I never sat in the audience apart from one brief moment during the dress rehearsal from which I think this story has sprung.
Reality is rather annoying.
brad knewstubb posted 1 Dec 2009, 03:00 PM
New Award Posted! The EDWARDS Award for Technical Wizardy.
Nominations Close on Thursday Night!
Get Voting!!!!!!!!!
yvette parsons posted 1 Dec 2009, 05:52 PM
Best Cross Gender Acting……Rashmi Pilapitiya as Shantilal in GAS
Isaac Heron posted 1 Dec 2009, 07:54 PM
Best Entrance: Matariki Whatarau in Caucasian Chalk Circle. Amazing.
Also do the young and hungry shows count?
Fiona McNamara posted 2 Dec 2009, 06:32 AM
yes, I admit, Uther’s technical non-f*** is based purely on rumour. But a hilarious one.
Ralph McCubbin Howell posted 2 Dec 2009, 08:23 AM
Best Costume of the Year… Milo Haigh as Death in Charm is Not Enough
Smallest Part of the Year… Johnny Harrison in the Intricate Art of Actually Caring
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Paul Harrop in Postal
Best Accent of the Year… Paul Waggot’s laconic kiwi flatmate in Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
Best Weapon of the Year… Alan Henry. Then man is a ninja.
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… Jack Shadbabe The Blackening
Best Dancing in a Play… The stoner teddy bear in The Intricate Art of Actually Caring
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… “I gotta take a piss” Paul Waggot Death and the Dream Life of Elephants
Zelda Edwards posted 2 Dec 2009, 11:03 AM
The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year… Agreed with Angela: Rowan Bettjeman spitting on Erin Banks in Helen of Troy
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… ‘Molly’ The Little Schnauzer in Postal (Dog on stage = awesome)
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Aaron in Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants (I jumped out of my seat)
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… A Most Outrageous Humbug
Best Costume of the Year… Ricky Dey and Yvette Parsons in Entertaining Mr Sloane
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… Johnny Harrison in The Intricate Art of Actually Caring
The OUT OF BOUNDS Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Natalie Medlock, Song for the Ugly Kids
The CAPITAL E Award for Best Accent of the Year… Derek Flores, Wednesday’s with WIT (Derek attempting to put on a Kiwi Accent)
The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play… Dai Henwood’s dirty telephone call in Penny Astons’ Hot Pink Bits
The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry… Live at Six of course!
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… Live at Six – every line!
Best Stage Manager of the Year… Chelsea Adams you are a star!
Best Technical ***k Up of the Year… N/A
Best Dry of the Year… I’m unsure
The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year… Video Editing, Live at Six
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… Tim Spite, Turbine
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… Simon Smith and Paul Harrop in Postal
The NZ FRINGE FESTIVAL lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night…
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy… Aaron!
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Strange Resting Places
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… Jean Sergeant, A Most Outrageous Humbug
The K’RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play… Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
Robin Kerr posted 2 Dec 2009, 01:27 PM
The EDWARDS award for technical wizardry…
Holy !@#$%^& *()&^%$ #&^% that table just flew across the stage!!!! – to Andrew Foster/Glenn Ashcroft for Goodnight, The End.
Dean Hewison posted 2 Dec 2009, 02:54 PM
As mentioned, everybody who nominates gets entered into the draw to win a cool prize. The cool prize is:
A BATS double pass
A play from The Play Press
Single nominations not eligible, you have to do a fair few. If the winner isn’t at the awards, it will be redrawn.
See you Friday!
Uther Dean posted 2 Dec 2009, 05:53 PM
Just adding nominations for the awards that have popped up since my first round.
The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play – The ever present type writer in Wolf’s Lair
The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry – A seconding of Robin’s nomination of the table in Good Night, The End.
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play – ‘NOBODY. EVER. GETS. ANY. BETTER.’ Cornelius Crook (Emmett Skilton) in Bedlam by Eli Kent. No matter how many times he said it, it never stopped being genius.
Best Stage Manager of the Year – Chelsea Adams for Two Day Plays
Best Technical ***k Up of the Year – I second Rachel Lenart’s nomination for the unexpected Zip! in Richard II by the dear departed Kyla Walker
Best Dry of the Year – David Lawrence in the opening scene of the opening night of Henry VI, Part One. It came in stages. First, a stumble, then a silence, then his wonderful begging of Alex Grieg with his eyes and hands which seemed to go on forever then finally turning to the audience, ‘Hey, it’s a really hard list this one!’
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year – Simon Smith and Paul Harrop in Postal.
John Smythe posted 2 Dec 2009, 08:21 PM
Best Dry of the Year – I totally concur with Uther Dean’s nomination: a beautifully recollected evocation of David Lawrence’s memorable moment in Henry VI Part 1. David should also get a special award for book-ending the Compleate Workes Project with his epic cast-rich (hooray!) Henrys.
The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry – some may think the disappearing table in Good Night – The End (nominated by Robin Kerr) is a ‘Kerr con’ because it was a ‘blink and you missed it’ moment (preparing the stage for the skeleton dance) while your attention was probably on Aaron Cortesi in the audience … But what remains indelible for me is the combo of lighting, fog, soundscape and Jo Randerson’s ‘naked’ voice taking her into the white light. It has to be worthy of an award under some category.
The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year… I’m tempted to swing over to Ralph’s nomination of Allan Henry in Henry V, Vienna Verona and Henry V Part 1, not only for his own performances but also for the many and variegated fights he choreographed. But I snuck all that in under Best Death (above) – and I did like battle-of-the-stanzas in Frogs Under the Waterfront …
David Lawrence posted 3 Dec 2009, 12:16 AM / edited 3 Dec 2009, 12:17 AM
If you check the cast list, Uther and John, I think you’ll find it was the actor Walter Plinge, not me, who had the gigantic dry 85 lines into a relatively simple speech in 1 Henry VI summarising the plots and family trees of the previous five plays in the cycle! He and I do look alike, except that he has long hair and no hump. He dates Moya Bannerman, if I recall correctly (Walter?).
Uther Dean posted 3 Dec 2009, 09:40 AM
Oh, of course, give my apologies to the forgetful Mr. Plinge. It couldn’t have been you as you were operating the sound and lights.
Victoria Spackman posted 3 Dec 2009, 09:44 AM
Good morning, this from Stuart and I:
The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year… – that in Helen of Troy – the spitting, the spitting!
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… – dead body wrapped in plastic in Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year…- Felicity McDonnell Good Night… the End
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… – Helen of Troy (and the badges)
Best Costume of the Year… – Death in Charm is Not Enough
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… – Adrianne’s lips in Live at Six
The OUT OF BOUNDS Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… – Rashmi in Gas
The CAPITAL E Award for Best Accent of the Year… – creepy gaul (and gall) Nick Dunbar in Le Sud
The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play – Dai Henwood in Hot Pink Bits eew
The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry… – we think opera counts (if Hansel and Gretel counts, which it does), so the entire set/experience of Italian Girl in Algiers. Yes, Rabbit, yes.
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… – “We’re chopping up the nation’s food for them” Leon and Dean Live at Six , with apologies if I got the line wrong
Best Dry of the Year… – we’ve only seen Penny’s on Tuesday night. But it was pretty good.
The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year… – we’re with the poetry in Frogs Under the Waterfront
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… – Jack Shadbolt, The Blackening
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year…- just saw Gas, so stll remember the creepy, quasi-sibling too long kiss Toby/Kate.
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… – Sit on It
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… – Hansel and Gretel, and for songwriting!
The K’RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play… – the Easter Europeans in Rock and Roll. Freedom never smelt so close.
See you there. With bells. And you should go to Penny’s show before the awards start. It’s a beautiful, sticky thing!
Moya Bannerman posted 3 Dec 2009, 10:16 AM / edited 3 Dec 2009, 12:33 PM
“Dated” is a loaded word, David. Walter Plinge and I met at an encounter group for people with identity issues and yes, we have become support buddies for those sudden and profound anxiety attacks the condition can provoke. Sadly I was unably to help Walter the night he dried but to make up for it he did make my shoulder wet afterwards. Not that our wet patches are anyone else’s business really.
Nell Williams posted 3 Dec 2009, 11:38 AM
Great to see the SMs getting some much needed public recognition. It’s hard frikken slog for not much glory so cheers to Ms Harcourt for getting the ball rolling on those noms.
My vote goes to whoever SMed CCC @ Toi: A billion prop/costume elements to keep track of, significant H+S issues to consider, use of food/liquids, a large cast and a long run time. Nice work.
And I’m adding one more nom to my list, for the Edwards Award for Technical Wizardry: to the Liz Carpenter/Rachel Baker combo, for working out that the right gel plus the right red plus the right latex results in a fully moveable, reuseable puddle of blood (Bedlam).
Hannah Clarke posted 3 Dec 2009, 01:14 PM
Here are my very bias nominations:
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Smoking Kills in Charm Is Not Enough
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Death in Charm Is Not Enough. I mean the Deaths in GNTE were good but our Death was way sexier.
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… Two Day Plays done in 60secs poster :http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2593/4154347486_53e1f220d1_o.jpg
Best Costume of the Year… Ricky Dey’s snakeskin suit in Entertaining Mr Sloane
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… Molly the dog in Postal
The OUT OF BOUNDS Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Paul Harrop obviously
The CAPITAL E Award for Best Accent of the Year… Nick Blake – evil cockney bastardé
The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry… Glenn Ashworth, just generally.
Best Stage Manager of the Year… Chelsea Adams
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… Me, for being pregnant, alllll year.
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… Paul and Simon, Postal
The NZ FRINGE FESTIVAL lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night… Phil Reed for whoring into more capital times social photos than there were opening nights.
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy… What Angela said.
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Babyshads
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… Babyshads – We’re all the same, the same, the same.
The K’RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play…Jaci Gwaliasi
Jean Sergent posted 3 Dec 2009, 03:38 PM
Tomorrow night is going to be a nice time, don’t you think?
Thanks nice people for organising this future nice time.
And my opninions are:
Best Break up of the Year… OH, you mean fictional? I was gonna say some people I actually know, there has been some good scandal this year.
Best Entrance of the Year… Aaron Cortesi, Goodnight The End
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Milo Haigh! Charm is not enough
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… I also really liked the Animal Hour one and I made mine into a frog and now I have to keep the frog forever cos that’s what my life is like
Best Costume of the Year… Death, Charm is Not Enough
Smallest Part of the Year… Sophie Hambleton and Ally Garrett as RoJo in Romeo and Juliet
Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Everyone is going with the beautiful Paul Gordon Harrop, and I support that, but I also thought Mitch Tawhi Thomas was aBABE in Richard II
Best Accent of the Year… Haha, yes, Paul Waggott, in Elephants, his Kiwi is really coming along nicely
The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play
The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry… I liked it in Elephants when Paul was suddenly drowned under the piece of plastic. Although the second time I went to see it I saw him walk out like a model and then lie down.
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… P-Wag, “Gonna take a piss”, Elephants. That’s 3 nominations of Paul in a row. I must be his friend or something.
Best Stage Manager of the Year… Debbie Fish. If you are being naughty she does a mime performance for you until it is your turn to go do more acting.
Best Technical ***k Up of the Year… Bedlam, the night no blood came out of the sheep when it had it’s throat slit. Or the night the blood GUSHED EVERYWHERE including on my lovely concrete onesie and I was a pink spattered statue. Otherwise, that sheep was a legend
Best Dry of the Year… Jonny Potts rewriting the Friar’s confession, Romeo and Juliet. I almost fainted, the tension, the tension.
Best Weapon of the Year… R&J paint rollers, I never got sick of seeing Nick Zwart get winded by them
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… Jack Shadbolt, The Blackening
Best Pash of the Year… Toby and Kate’s sibling smooch in Gas. “Whoopsie” indeed. Creep City.
A lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night…
Best Production of the Year… Vienna Verona. Wall-To-Wall Babes.
Best Sound Design of the Year… Thomas Press you are very good here have a prize (Wolf’s Lair and Elephants)
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy… Umm, yup. That did happen.
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Vienna Verona. Yes, all Twelvety of us can share the $1.50.
Best Set Design of the Year… Hannah Smith for the Humbug restaging at Downstage, piles of books are fierce.
Best Singing in a Play… Bedlam. If I do say so myself.
Best Dancing in a Play… Measure for Measure cast.
Deborah Eve Rea posted 3 Dec 2009, 08:01 PM
The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year… Johnny O’Kane and Gabrielle Beran (Dan and Wendy)- Sit On It
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Matariki Whataru, Caucasian Chalk Circle
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year… Jed Brophy, choking on an apple- The Blackening
The Award for Best Poster of the Year… Robin Kerr- A Brief History of Helen of Troy
Best Costume of the Year… Death in Charm is not Enough- Katheryn Tyree
The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year… Kerehi Paurini as the bouncer in Live at Six
The OUT OF BOUNDS Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Unfortunatly missed Postal but I nominate Paul Harrop for his “tart” in Christie in Love
The CAPITAL E Award for Best Accent of the Year… Simon Vincent- Year of the Rat
The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play- not sure if it counts as a sound effect but, The sound design of Bud by Pat McIntosh
The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry… Live at Six
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… “land of the wrong white crowd” and “Sabotage!” Confessions of a Drag Queen
Best Stage Manager of the Year… Chelsea!
Best Technical ***k Up of the Year… BATS Dodgy lighting issues- Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants (sorry!)
Best Dry of the Year… Nick Zwart- The Ant and The Grasshopper
The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year… Paint Rollers- Vienna Verona, Romeo and Juliet
The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year… Jack Shadbolt- The Blackening
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year… I don’t think I’ve seen any pashing! Does offstage count..?
The NZ FRINGE FESTIVAL lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night… Jenny Stevenson for her amazing contribution to training performers from toddlers to grown-ups
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… A Mime to Kill
Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play… The Rodwell Monologues
The K’RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play… Jaci Gwaliasi- Not Vacant
Deborah Eve Rea posted 3 Dec 2009, 08:22 PM
I must also quickly put on my FOH hat to remind you that the awards start at 10.30pm. Please be lovely and mindful that the beauiful Penny Ashton will be performing Hot Pink Bits in the theatre until that time.
Kia ora 🙂
Anna Harcourt posted 3 Dec 2009, 11:06 PM
Cos Jean added the category of best set design, I’m gonna nom Andrew Foster for set for Titus Andronicus. It’s a bit pre-emptive cos none of ya’ll have seen it yet. But its a real goods set. Opening night is tommorrow, before the awards. How convenient.
Editor posted 5 Dec 2009, 12:13 PM
And the winners of the Chapman Kip Theatre Awards 2009 are …
The MESSAGE TRADERS PUBLICITY Award for Best Break up of the Year…
Paul Harrop & Simon Smith – Postal
ROWAN BETTJEMAN AND ERIN BANKS – A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY
Everyone in Blood Wedding
Collapsing Creation
The MICHAEL and SHARON WRAY Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Aaron Cortesi – Good Night, The End
Matariki Whataru, Caucasian Chalk Circle
DEBS REA – SIT ON IT
Stuart McKenzie – Biography of my skin
Collapsing Creation
The HACKMAN award for Best Death of the Year…
MILOS HAIGUSS – CHARM IS NOT ENOUGH
Rose Guise – Animal Hour
Felicity McDonnell – Goodnight, The End
Collapsing Creation
The Award for Best Poster of the Year…
MADE IN NZ – FOOTNOTE DANCE
ANIMAL HOUR
SKYROCKETEERS OF JUSTICE VS THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
Collapsing Creation
Best Costume of the Year…
Death – Charmed is Not Enough
Ricky Dey – Entertaining Mr Sloane
YVETTE PARSONS – ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE
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The BATS THEATRE Award for Smallest Part of the Year…
JOHNNY HARRISON – THE INTRICATE ART OF ACTUALLY CARING
Kent Robinson – Becoming the Courtesan
Ally Garret – Vienna Verona
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The OUT OF BOUNDS Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
PAUL HARROP – POSTAL
Rashmi Pilapitiya – Gas
Natalie Medlock – Songs for the Ugly Kids
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The CAPITAL E Award for Best Accent of the Year…
NICK DUNBAR – LE SUD
Aaron Cortesi – Good Night, The End
Erin Banks – The Clean House
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The APRA Award for best Sound Effect in a play
FINGER-SNAPPING – BEDLAM
Dai Henwood – Hot Pink Bits
Children – Biography of my Skin
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The EDWARDS award for Technical Wizardry…
Table – Goodnight, The End
EDITING – LIVE AT SIX
Glenn Ashworth
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The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
I’ve gotta take a piss – Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
ANYTHING FROM LIVE AT SIX, SPECIAL MENTION TO “WE’RE CHOPPING UP THE NATION’S FOOD FOR THEM.”
Nobody ever gets any better – Bedlam
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Best Stage Manager of the Year…
Pat Mackintosh – 39 Steps
CHELSEA ADAMS – TWO DAY PLAYS
Debbie Fish – Vienna Verona
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The WESTMARK PRODUCTIONS Award for Best Weapon of the Year…
Video editing – Live at Six
PAINT ROLLERS – ROMEO AND JULIET
Allan Henry
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The Award for an Actor/Actress playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year…
Tim Spite – Turbine
Paul Waggot (various roles) – Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
JACK SHADBOLT – THE BLACKENING
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The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Pash of the Year…
SIMON SMITH AND PAUL HARROP – POSTAL
Toby Leach and Rashmi Pilapitiya – Gas
Ricky Dey and Yvette Parsons – Entertaining Mr Sloane
Cathy Downes and Peter Hambleton – Collapsing Creation
The NZ FRINGE FESTIVAL lifetime achievement award will be presented on the night…
AARON CORTESI
Best performance of an extremely well endowed Italian in a Downstage performance of a Jo Randerson comedy…
Aaron Cortesi – Goodnight, The End
ANDREW FOSTER – GOODNIGHT, THE END
Richard Falkner – Measure for Measure
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The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
Vienna Verona
Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
THE CAUCASION CHALK CIRCLE
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Best PANNZ Award for Best Singing in a Play…
JEAN SERGENT – A MOST OUTRAGEOUS HUMBUG
Phil Vaughan – Live at Six
Caucasion Chalk Circle
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The K’RD BALLROOM & PULL BAR Award for Best Dancing in a Play..
Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Jaci Gwaliasi – Various
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