December 7, 2015

ALL OUR SONS DOMINATES THEATRE AWARDS 

Wellington’s Oscars, the Wellington Theatre Awards, are notable for their strong Māori and Pacific Island presence this year, writes Sarah Catherall 

For more than two decades, senior legal partner Neil Gray backed Wellington theatre, ensuring its annual awards were amply sponsored so actors, directors and set designers could be rewarded for their craft.

One of the inaugural trustees of the Chapman Tripp Theatre awards, worth about $30,000 a year, Gray has since retired, and the legacy of the firm supporting Wellington’s equivalent of the Oscars has ended after 22 years. 

At the annual theatre awards last night, he received a prestigious gong for his outstanding contribution to theatre, although he was too ill to attend the event. [More]

[Note: The misprint in the DomPost print media heading is corrected above: the winning production is All Our Sons (by Witi Ihimaera), not All My Sons (by Arthur Miller).]