December 3, 2013
VOTE HERE for the 5th Annual Auckland Theatre Awards – Backstage Special!!
Auckland Theatre Awards posted 19 Nov 2013, 10:06 AM / edited 20 Nov 2013, 06:26 PM
The 5th Annual Auckland Theatre Awards
Monday 2 December, 7.30pm
The Wintergarden, The Civic
http://www.the-edge.co.nz/aucklandtheatreawards.aspx
You’ve seen the shows, you’ve read the reviews, now you can make your opinion count…
Copy and paste the categories and add your nominations
– as a reply to this post, and/or
– email them to hackmantheatreawards@gmail.com.
Deadline for nominations: Friday 29th November
The 2013 Newcomers will be announced soon via our Facebook page www.facebook.com/aktheatreawards.
And be sure to get your tickets before they sell out! www.ticketmaster.co.nz
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule…
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash…
The APRA Award for Best Music…
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
The Short and Sweet Award for fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
The Gail Cowan Award for Best Cast Wrangling of 14 pre-pubescent, private school educated, chior boy castaways…
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up…
Steve Dedalus posted 19 Nov 2013, 04:11 PM / edited 19 Nov 2013, 04:13 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
Meek citizen Leopold Bloom (Hershal Herscher, pretending to be Len Brown – little did anyone know) and transvestite dominatrix Bella Cohen (Michael Hurst, having raided wife’s wardrobe) in Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule…
Jews Brothers Bloomsday, conceived 2000, produced in a K Rd pub every June 16 since.
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Peter Scott & James Joyce, Jews Brothers Bloomsday
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
Transvestite dominatrix Bella Cohen (Michael Hurst), “I’m all of a mucksweat…” Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Hershal Herscher as severe melancholic Leopold Bloom, Jews Bros Bloomsday
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
James Joyce effigy leaning against a green bowel-hatted fluted Greek column, Jews Bros Bloomsday
The APRA Award for Best Music…
Linn Lorkin, Rick Bryant, Yuko Takahashi, Farrell Cleary, Chris Trotter, Joe Carolan, Jews Bros Band, Jews Brothers Bloomsday
The Short and Sweet Award for fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday — into The Thirsty Dog at 4pm June 16, out at midnight same day.
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
“Love me like a Chinese corporation, climb into bed with my fellow Hong Kong shysters. roll in the lucre of my fraudulent, money-laundering associates, for I’m Jenny the Dosh, former Prime Minister, powerful face of free trade, quick profits and the modern National Party, I am Crafar Farms, I am Genesis Power, I am Mainzeal Properties, I am the successful Tory politician, multiple directorships coming out my bum each worth 80 grand a year, my little piggy trotters greasy with travel perks and all I have to do is turn up and shove my slobbery snout in the swilling trough! snorrrk, snorrrk, snorrrk! I am Bill Birch at Dorchester, I am Doug Graham at Lombard, I am John Luxton at Blue Chip…I am 21st century New Zealand!” — Bella Cohen, Jews Bros Bloomsday
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Jews Bros’ Hershal Herscher in full Hasidic gear as Bloom, Jews Bros Bloomsday
The Gail Cowan Award for Best Cast Wrangling of 14 pre-pubescent, private school educated, choir boy castaways…
Brothel scene, Jews Bros Bloomsday
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Jews Bros Bloomsday
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
Linn Lorkin, Hershal Herscher, Michael Hurst, Joe Carolan, Leisha Ward-Knox, Rick Bryant, Yuko Takahashi, Farrell Cleary, Noelle McCarthy, Chris Trotter, Peter Scott, Jews Bros Band, Jews Bros Bloomsday
The Protestant Association for Destitute Orphans of Mixed Marriages Award for Best Radio Host In a Musical Version of Ulysses:…
Noelle McCarthy as Molly Bloom, Jews Bros Bloomsday
Dave Wilson posted 19 Nov 2013, 05:20 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
Jordan Blaikie & Dan Veint in Another Dead Fag.
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Smoke Labours Productions – Another Dead Fag
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
Nic Sampson – The Hummingbird in Hummingbird- fringe festival
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
The Actors Programme – Camino Real
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Chicago – ATC
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
Lord of the Flies – ATC. Those boys worked together incredibly well.
Liv Tennet posted 19 Nov 2013, 08:33 PM
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Anton Tennet as Simon – Lord of the Flies -pretty kick ass epileptic fit on that cross.
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Anton Tennet as Simon – Lord of the Flies
Thanks guys! Looking forward to the awards!
Mark Scott posted 21 Nov 2013, 12:19 PM
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Lilly Loca’s VOIX DE VILLE
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
Sophia de Villier in VOIX DE VILLE
The APRA Award for Best Music…
Spietetat Jazz Band in VOIX DE VILLE
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Mitchell Pitch (spectacularly “accidentally” hanging himself on his aerial straps)
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Patti Hagg using her fluffy steel capped slipper to do a stage murder. VOIX DE VILLE
Aliyah Newman posted 21 Nov 2013, 02:46 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
WINGS
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Abigails Pary!
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
Shane Cortese – Chicago
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
The Actors’ Program – Camino Real
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash…
Darlene Mohekey and Jess Sayer – WINGS
The APRA Award for Best Music…
CHICAGO!! John Gibson and team.
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Chelsea McEwan Milliar as Larry in Zooquatic
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
‘Probably because, as a Jew, I don’t get the catharsis of the confessional.’ ELEVATOR
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Zooquatic
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Midsummer
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
The Actors Program – Camino Real
Jess Sayer posted 21 Nov 2013, 03:46 PM
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Abigails Party
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
The actors in White Rabbit Red Rabbit. (The look of terror on some of their faces as they walked onto that stage…)
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Jess Holly Bates – The Heritic
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
The Actors’ Program – Camino Real
The APRA Award for Best Music…
Chicago! John = God.
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Chelsea McEwan Millar in Zooquatic.
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Best costume… of a set? Between the Sheets. =P But if that’s cheeting then, Zooquatic.
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Just Above The Clouds – Ben Anderson
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
The Actors’ Program – Camino Real
Matt Baker posted 21 Nov 2013, 03:55 PM / edited 19 Sep 2017, 12:29 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
Jess Sayer and Darlene Mohekey with Simea Holland in “Wings”
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
“Another Dead Fag” by Sam Brooks (designed by Dan Cresswell)
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
Angela Bloomfield in “Tim Dibley: Masterclass”
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Tola Newbery in “Hui”
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
The time-lapse sequence in “Yeti Trilogy”
The APRA Award for Best Music…
The “Buffalo/Bapas” song by Jacob Rajan in “Kiss The Fish”
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Simon Vincent in “Abigail’s Party”
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
“Fuck you ACC,” written and spoken by Renee Lyons
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
“Zooquatic” by Chelsea McEwan Millar and Eizabeth McMenamin
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
“Just Above The Clouds” by Ben Anderson
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
The cast of “Titus” (Jason Hodzelmans, Cole Jenkins, Paul Lewis, Eli Mathewson, James Roque, David Sutherland, and Jason Wu)
Eve Gordon posted 22 Nov 2013, 09:39 AM / edited 22 Nov 2013, 11:24 AM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
Dave and Fasi in Niu Sila
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Lord of the Flies ATC
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
Shane Cortese in Chicago
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
Trygve Wakenshaw eating a bird in Squid Boy
The APRA Award for Best Music…
John Gibson for Chicago
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Mayen Mehta in Camino Real
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
Michael Hurst – No Holds Bard…
“She’s so thin – every time she yawns her knickers fall down”
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Vanya Essin for his hunting knife vs clothes strip act.
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Squid Boy by Trygve Wakenshaw
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
The Actors Programme Camino Real
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up…
Michael Craven firing guns shots sans gun at random during Mix and Match.
Chris Parker posted 23 Nov 2013, 01:03 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
Dan Veint & Jordan Blaikie – Another Dead Fag
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule…
Whoever has the job to organise The Basement Xmas show production schedual every year – dear god
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Wistle Solo – dat gloss
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
Julia Croft as Freddie in Kiss the Fish / Yvette Pasrons in Janeece Gunton: Herstory
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Anton Tennet in Lord of the Flies
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
The Dragon in Dragonlore (young and hungry)
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
Dan Musgrove’s horrific flesh suit in Yeti Trilogy
The APRA Award for Best Music…
Sam Sneeden in Pitchfork Disney
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Simon Vincent in Abigail’s Party
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Sophie Roberts in Abagials Party
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Sydney Bridge Upside Down – Taki Rua
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
The Snort Ensemble
claire van beek posted 24 Nov 2013, 02:05 AM / edited 24 Nov 2013, 02:13 AM
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
The Basement Theatre. It’s just looking so damn good in there.
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Trygve’s squid costume in “Squid Boy”. Whimsical.
The APRA Award for Best Music…
John Gibson for turning a novel into a score (and so, so much more) in “Sydney Bridge Upside Down.”
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
Sarah Houbolt grinding off her chastity belt in “Dolly Mixture”. A great special effect and use of costume/ story telling wrapped into one very solid pair of undies.
Also…
I couldn’t work out where to put it, but a special mention to White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. That was a pretty incredible piece of theatre/ writing/ bravery/ community.
Yay. Go theatre.
Sophie Roberts posted 25 Nov 2013, 05:52 PM
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule…
Martyn Wood – The Basement Christmas Show
Martyn Wood – The Pitchfork Disney pack in/pack out schedule
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
Dn Musgrove – Yeti skin suit
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Simon Vincent – Abigail’s Party
The Short and Sweet Award for fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
The Pitchfork Disney – 8 shows worth of shit in a a couple of hours
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Silo – White Rabbit Red Rabbit
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
Snort
nik smythe posted 25 Nov 2013, 09:30 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up… Tim and Lucky, Tim Dibley’s Masterclass
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule… Dancing In The Wake – The Story of Lucia Joyce; thirty odd dates nationwide between February and June
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster… Whistle Solo
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance… Kiss the Fish monkeys
The APRA Award for Best Music… Jeff Henderson, The Thing From The Place
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production… Celery Stories, Myers Park
(Sadly I seem to have missed out on almost all the pashing and nudity this year – no examples that spring to mind)
(Also, no technical failure award this year? Sorry about that, Ernest Rutherford – Everyone Can Science’s anticlimactic vinegar-and-baking-soda volcano!)
Eli Matthewson posted 26 Nov 2013, 10:36 AM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up… ATC & Maidment, things got to “hot” lololol happy to see them back together lol
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule… Martyn Wood for the Xmas Show
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster… Cloud 9 or Gorge
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance… Ella Beacroft in ‘The Feast’
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… The guy in ‘Like There’s No Tomorrow’ who’s disability was ‘dead’
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect… The opening Marionette sequence in La Vie Dans une Marionette
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity… The cast of anything Ben Henson has directed this year
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash… Dan and Aidee in Midsummer
The APRA Award for Best Music… All of Andi’s music choices/dances in Abigails party
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death… Simon Vincent in Abigails Party
The Short and Sweet Award for fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year… Snort lolol (although sometimes we forget to ‘pack out’ our beer bottles)
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play… “Did I just say that out Cloud” – from Ben Anderson’s ‘Just above the Clouds’, spoken by Chye-Ling Huang as ‘The Cloud’
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume… Squidboy
The Gail Cowan Award for Best Cast Wrangling of 14 pre-pubescent, private school educated, chior boy castaways… Squidboy
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production… White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble… Snort
Jo Mathews posted 26 Nov 2013, 12:10 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up… The relationship comings and goings of “Cloud 9”.
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
“Cloud 9”,
“Kalopsia Sky”,
“F*ck Love”.
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance… “The Silly Hat Sauage Sizzle Spectacular Birthday Bash Bonanza Extravaganza”. Not just one, but MANY amazing entrances!!!!
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Not sure if it counts, but I go for Natalie Medlock in ” The Yeti Trilogy”!!!
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity… “Sydney Bridge Upside Down”. Audible gasps from the audience.
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death… The street cleaners in “Camino Real”. Creepy.
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
Anything and everything from “The Bitches Box”
Anything and everything from “Verbatim”.
Best Costume award: “Cloud 9”. Stunning. Beautiful production values.
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production… “Sydney Bridge Upside Down”- Taki Rua. Wow.
Zinnie Selwyn posted 26 Nov 2013, 01:17 PM / edited 26 Nov 2013, 01:49 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
Leon Wadham and Jordan Mooney – Lord of the Flies
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule…
Martyn Wood – A Basement Christmas Carol
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Andi Crown – Abigail’s Party
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Tola Newbery – Hui
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
Time Lapse Sequence – Yeti Trilogy
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
The Actors’ Program – Camino Real
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash…
Jess Sayer and Darlene Mohekey – Wings
The APRA Award for Best Music…
John Gibson – Chicago
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Dan Veint – Another Dead Fag
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Sam Snedden – Gimp Mask – The Pitchfork Disney
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
Snort
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up…
The cancelled Opening Night, the cancelled Final Week, and then everything that happened in between – Intimacies.
James Wenley posted 26 Nov 2013, 02:50 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
Sidu and Daisy AND Sidu and Jasmine in Kiss the Fish
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Abigail’s Party
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
The Zombies & Lauren Gibson in Apocalypse Z
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Tola Newbery, Hui
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
Caleb Wells’ flaming bike in Like There’s no Tomorrow
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
The blow-up media scrum in Chicago
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash…
Dan and Aidee in Midsummer
The APRA Award for Best Music…
Paul Mclaney score for Speaking in Tongues
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Definitely Simon Vincent, Abigail’s Party
(Runner up: Mike Edward in Chicago. He had it coming. Again and again.)
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
The Cloud Puns from Just above the Clouds (Ben Anderson)
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
The Shark in Zooquatic
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Like There’s No Tomorrow & The Feast
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
The after-ball partiers of Like There’s No Tomorrow
Martyn Wood posted 26 Nov 2013, 08:42 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…Jordan and Dan – Another Dead Fag
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…The Pitchfork Disney
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…Chris Parker – arriving in Auckland
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…The time-lapse sequence – Yeti Trilogy
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…Dan Musgrove in his skin suit – Yeti Trilogy
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash…Dan and Aidee – Midsummer
The APRA Award for Best Music…John Gibson – Chicago
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…Mike Edward, all of them – Chicago
The Short and Sweet Award for fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…Pitchfork Disney – built an entire house in 4 days, packed it out in 4 hours
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…Fuck you ACC! – Renee Lyons in Nick.
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…Sophie Roberts – Abigail’s Party
The Gail Cowan Award for Best Cast Wrangling of 14 pre-pubescent, private school educated, chior boy castaways…Lord of the Flies team
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production… White Rabbit/Red Rabbit
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble… Snort!!!
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up… the gun not going off – Chicago opening night
Jo Mathews posted 27 Nov 2013, 12:01 PM
Genuine question- Camino Real by the Actors Program who was nude? I can’t remember!!!!
Matt Baker posted 27 Nov 2013, 12:05 PM
No one – it’s just the closest we seem to have got this year.
Steve Dedalus posted 27 Nov 2013, 06:15 PM
Hershal Herscher in the great Jews Bros Bloomsday toilet scene (“Hope it’s not too big to bring on piles again… No, just right… So… Ah!”) — totally nude.
Sam Bunkall posted 27 Nov 2013, 09:56 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up… The Zebra and the Shark – Zooquatic
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule… Martyn Wood – Basement Xmas show
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster… Pitchfork Disney
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance… Sam Sneddon – Pitchfork Disney
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… Barnie Duncan – The thing from the place
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect… Time lapse – Yeti
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity… Dan Musgrove in the Yeti Trilogy
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash… Midsummer
The APRA Award for Best Music… The thing from the place
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death… Simon Vincent – Abigails Party
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…Dragonlore
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production… White Rabbit/Red Rabbit
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble… Snort Ensemble
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up… failed volcano – Earnest Rutherford
Anders Falstie posted 27 Nov 2013, 10:33 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
Beverly and Laurence in Abigail’s Party
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule…
The Engineering Revue at The Maidment – the smoko break (Wait a sec, I’ll just wrap this leg here around this boom here. Right, lets go get a pie…) was impressively timed.
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
I have a soft spot for Abigail’s Party but Pitchfork Disney was good too.
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
The Gimp in Pitchfork Disney
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
The Gimp in Pitchfork Disney. Although physically fit something wasn’t quite right.
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
The strobe lit reveal of the black clad lady in Gravity Hotel
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
I didn’t see any naked people this year.
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash…
Nobody pashed in shows I went to.
The APRA Award for Best Music…
Sally Stockwell’s music for Gravity Hotel
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
Simon Vincent in Abigail’s party
The Short and Sweet Award for fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
I only took part in long pack in/pack outs
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
‘I hate new school music. It’s too rude. You could get pregnant listening to it’ – Beulah Koale in The Brave
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Black clad lady (who happened to be a tiny white clad woman) in Gravity Hotel
The Gail Cowan Award for Best Cast Wrangling of 14 pre-pubescent, private school educated, chior boy castaways…
The ATC ASM army.
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
The boys in The Brave.
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up…
Torching the Maidment.
sam snedden posted 29 Nov 2013, 07:13 AM
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule…
Martyn Wood for Pitchfork Disney and the Basement Christmas Show. Stacey Dobnalson for the Fringe at the Basement, both should get lifetime acheivement awards if you ask me
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
Renee Lyons in Nick
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Apocalypse Z
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble…
Atlas / Mountains/ Dead Butterflies
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up…
Shadon Meridith “Stay In”
Natalie Crane posted 29 Nov 2013, 09:54 AM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up…
Kelly Denton (Anthony Towler) and Rachel Burton (Natalie Crane) in Defensability – “It’s a text from Rachey, she said she’s moved on and found her soulmate” followed by a crutches duel with the new man Jared
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…
Defensability – a true kiwi play about a unique topic – 2 disabled atheletes vying for the same girl!
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
Privatising Parts by Heleyni Pratley
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance..
Courtney Eggerton, playing Lost Hippie in Defensability
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash…
Anthony Towler and Natalie Crane (Kelly Denton and Rachel Burton) extended pash in front of WINZ worker in Defensability
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Justin Reynolds, the paralympian with an awesome hair flick from Defensability
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect…
Hamlet – the trapdoor/Ophelia’s grave
The APRA Award for Best Music…
Hamlet directed by John Gouge
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death..
Calum Gittens in Hamlet
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
“Your dick is leading this dance” Prema Cottingham in Defensability
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume…
Natalie Crane’s costume malfunction in final scene Defensability –
The Gail Cowan Award for Best Cast Wrangling of 14 pre-pubescent, private school educated, chior boy castaways…
This would have to be Lord of the Flies!
Sarah Russo posted 29 Nov 2013, 02:10 PM
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule… The Duffy Tour
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster… F*CK LOVE
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance… Dot Com in the last years Xmas Show.
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity… The actors in Sydeny bridge upside down
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash… Defensability!!
The APRA Award for Best Music… Lord of the flies
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death… Lord of t he flies
The Short and Sweet Award for fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year… Basement shows in Auckland Fringe Festvial!!
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume… Basement christmas show last year- maybe Bjork? So many choices.
The Gail Cowan Award for Best Cast Wrangling of 14 pre-pubescent, private school educated, chior boy castaways… Lord of the flies!!
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production… Sydney bridge upside down!!
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble… Camino real
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up… didn’t see any
Matt Baker posted 29 Nov 2013, 02:47 PM
Yes, Sam!
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity…
Renee Lyons in “Nick”
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up…
Shadon Meredith “Stay In”
Robin Kerr posted 29 Nov 2013, 07:01 PM
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up… Tim Carlson’s mind – Sydney Bridge upside down
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production Schedule… Jamie Johnstone for Like There’s No Tomorrow
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster… The Hackmans!
The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance… Aaron Cortesi as a giant in Sydney Bridge – dat sound effect!
The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… Loretta West in Glass Menagerie
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect… Hate to self nommy but a FLAMING BIKE FUCKA’S! Courtesty of Whetu Silver, Like There’s No Tomorrow
The APRA Award for Best Music… The Odyssey
The Actors Programme Award for Best Nudity… Rebecca Smith in an eve onesie – Like There’s No Tomorrow
The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death… The child actors playing sheep that must killed and eaten in The Odyssey
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play… ‘Last night I was so lonely I had sex with a stool’ – Barney Duncan, Whistle Solo
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of a Costume… The sarong’s in Feast – and the best darn dance piece this year, sorry TEMPO
The Gail Cowan Award for Best Cast Wrangling of 14 pre-pubescent, private school educated, chior boy castaways… Katy-Jade whose official job was actually just doing this one thing on that show
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production… Snort!
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble… Chicago
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up… Glass Menagerie: Fire in the maidment followed by a real lightning strike. Some deity hates Tennessee Williams
nisha madhan posted 29 Nov 2013, 10:23 PM
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…Glossy glossy Whistle Solo (design by Stephen Bain)
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash…Trygve Wakenshaw’s air pash with Susan in Squidboy
The APRA Award for Best Music…Jeff Henderson Thing from the Place
The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…Either 1) “English? Who speaks it?!” OR 2)”Sting? What an asshole!” from Whistle Solo by Julie Hill
The Gail Cowan Award for Best Cast Wrangling of 14 pre-pubescent, private school educated, chior boy castaways…Shmatie Shmaudlin
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original Production…Gorge – Virgina Frankovich and Pheobe Mason
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble… Cast of Another Dead Fag
The Actor’s Equity Award for Best Technical F*#k up… James Roque giving the puppeteer (Julia Croft) a comforting pat on the back instead of the actual puppet in Kiss The Fish
Rachel Forman posted 2 Dec 2013, 12:42 PM
Hi wonderful supporters,
We have announced the nominations for the awards on our Facebook page – check them out here https://www.facebook.com/aktheatreawards
Hope we will see you all Monday night!!
There are door sales at the Civic box office and the show starts at 7:30pm sharp.
And don’t forget there are pre drinks at Q from 5:30 and post drinks at Basement for the hearties.
Rachel Forman posted 3 Dec 2013, 11:51 AM
AND THE WINNERS ARE …
The TAPAC (The Auckland Performing Arts Centre) Award for Best Entrance:
Sam Snedden – ‘The Pitchfork Disney’
The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash:
Bennett Conran & Ida Barklund – ‘Keanu Reeves Saves the World’
The Short+Sweet Auckland Award for Fastest Pack In / Pack Out:
‘Verbatim’ – Mangere Arts Centre
The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best use of Costume:
‘Zooquatic’,
The NZ Actors Equity Award for Best Technical Fu*k up: The Lightening Strike on Selwyn College during ‘The Glass Menagerie’,
The Kathryn Rawlings Management Award for Best Break Up:
Jordon and Dan – ‘Another Dead Fag’,
The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Production schedule:
‘The Basement Christmas Carol’ – Martyn Wood,
The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster:
‘Whistle Solo’,
The Auckland Actors Award for Best DEATH:
Simon Vincent in ‘Abigails Party’,
The Playmarket New Zealand Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play:
“Did I just say that outCloud?” – ‘Just above the Clouds’ by Ben Andersen
The J&L Management Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the year:
Tola Newbury – ‘Hui’ – SILO and Auckland Festival
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Special Effect:
Everything – ‘Apocalypse Z’
The Actors’ Program Award for Best Nudity:
Dan Musgrove’s skin Suit – ‘Yeti Trilogy’
The APRA Award for Best Music in a play:
Paul McLaney – ‘Speaking in Tongues’
The Auckland Theatre Company Newcomer Award: Jamie Johnstone
The Q Theatre Newcomer Award: Dan Williams
The Basement Newcomer Award: Helen Sheehan
The Auckland Festival Award for Most Original production: ‘Sydney Bridge Upside Down’,
The Silo Theatre Award for Best Ensemble:
Snort And The Edge Lifetime Achievement recipient for 2013 – Gillian Sutton
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