December 13, 2012
The HACKMAN Theatre Awards 2012 – VOTING AND NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN!!
HACKMAN Theatre Awards posted 15 Nov 2012, 09:00 PM / edited 21 Nov 2012, 04:55 PM
Members of the Auckland theatre community… it’s up to you!
LET THE NOMINATIONS AND VOTING BEGIN!!
Choose your favourites! Copy and paste the award catergories and start voting!!!
The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
The ARMSTRONG CREATIVE Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
The PLAYMARKET NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
GO!!!!!!!
– then go here to book for the show
Steve Dedalus posted 16 Nov 2012, 12:43 PM / edited 16 Nov 2012, 12:56 PM
The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:
THE SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Meek citizen Leopold Bloom (Hershal Herscher) and transvestite dominatrix Bella Cohen (George Henare) in Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday
THE AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Transvestite dominatrix Bella Cohen (George Henare), Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday: “I’m all of a mucksweat…”
THE APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Linn Lorkin, Jews Brothers Bloomsday (Finnegan’s Wake, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, The Croppy Boy, Non Je Ne Regrette Rien).
THE JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Dressing of the Year…
George Henare in resplendent drag as transvestite dominatrix Bella Cohen, Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday
THE HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
The cuckolded Leopold Bloom (Hershal Herscher), Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday
THE JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the 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 NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Linn Lorkin, Hershal Herscher, George Henare, “Without My Walking Stick” number, Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday.
THE LEGION OF MARY AWARD for Best Visitor From Wellington Playing the Next Best Thing to the Holy Mother of God:
Carmel McGlone as Molly Bloom, Jews Brothers Bloomsday.
Sam Bunkall posted 16 Nov 2012, 05:15 PM
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Sam Sneddon in “The Pride”
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… Little Histories of the Life Ordinary
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year… Jen Lal
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… Renee Lyons in “The Triumphants”
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play… Colleen Davis in “Little Shopof Horrors”
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year… Celery’s Snow Machine (in every play that Celery have been a part of all year)
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year… The poster for “Private Lives”
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… “The Laramie Project part 2”
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of More Than One Gay Play of the Year …. Sophie Roberts the Queen of Gay Theatre
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year… Liesha Ward Knox in “Play Me Deadly”
The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… Brel
nik smythe posted 17 Nov 2012, 11:59 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year – Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohl (Simon Kane & Bruce Phillips): Copenhagen
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year– Nisha Madhan and Alexa Wilson’s multiple introductions of eachother: Showpony
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year – Black Confetti
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year – Virginia Frankovich as Kate in Black Confetti
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play – Colleen Davis: Little Shop of Horrors (special mention to Alexandra Clare for her wartime jazz rendition of Hey Nonny Nonny in Theatre Workshop’s Much Ado About Nothing)
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play – Not sure of exact wording; something to the effect of “I can’t die yet, I’m only up to season 3 of the Wire!”, which I believe was Elvis in Black Confetti, by Eli Kent
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year – take your pick of any number from The Boy With Tape On His Face … More Tape
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Dressing of the Year – Kinloch Anstiss as Harry in Day After Night
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year – Alisha Lawrie-Paul, Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu, Julia Croft and Sam Bunkall: Little Histories of the Life Ordinary.
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year –Lobster Man in Cowboy Mouth/Love It Up (unsure who designed it, possibly Lara Fischel-Chisolm?)
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year – the cast of Starving Carving Darling, Short + Sweet Week 3, directed and presumably choreographed by Judy Tran
The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year – Show Pony (Nisha Madhan and Alexa Wilson)
Nat Hugill posted 19 Nov 2012, 06:04 PM
**sorry, being totally shameless and also voting for my show**
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year: Lilly Loca’s Vaudeville Cabaret – either of their posters from their shows ‘The Wunderbar Spectacular’, ‘Frivolous Frivolity’ or ‘The Va-Va-Voom Burlesque Show’. All created and designed by Peter Heckman.
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…Colleen Davis in ‘Little Shop of Horrors’. Absolutely outstanding!
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. Miss Anthropy and Leda Petit’s “Burlesque-Off” finale act for Lilly Loca’s Vaudeville Cabaret Presents: Frivolous Frivolity!
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Dressing of the Year… Patty Haag – Stage Kitten for Lilly Loca’s Vaudeville Cabaret!
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… The mechanicals from ATC’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year…. “I’m being blinded by the light reflecting off the nipple tassles” – Sarah Idle, ‘Reviewing Lilly Loca’s Vaudeville Cabaret Presents: The Wunderbar Spectacular’ on Gather and Hunt
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…anyone who did Tempo Dance Festival!!!!!
The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…Beautiful Losers, written by Mike Hudson and directed by Margaret-Mary Hollins
Taimi Allan posted 20 Nov 2012, 12:25 PM
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Andrew Monroe as I.M. Flourishing in the play “N.O.T “for The Big reTHiNK 1:25
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
The Big reTHiNK
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Marina Volkova as Ruth in Wayward Seniors (The Big reTHiNK) = “Alzheimers” (1:05)
Flynn Allan as Jamie in “Terribly Unwell” (The Big reTHiNK) = a Child with “Human personality Disorder” (1:23)
Jennifer Freed as Nicola in “Hang on Tight” (The Big reTHiNK) = Depression (1:00)
Chris Brain’s Panic Attack in The Big reTHiNK = Anxiety (6:00)
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Daniel Larsen-Barr as The Thinker in “Somehow in Relation” for the big reTHiNK (6:30)
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
“I was born… to Soar” – Wayward Seniors by Rex McGregor (for The Big reTHiNK) -(7:35)
“You see most things stem from either OCD, Depression or… mad eyes” – Mad-o-phobic by Lynz Wilmshurst for The Big reThiNK (4:09)
“Doctor Sats I need An STD Woo Hoooo!!!” – Terribly Unwell by Sheree Veysey for The Big reTHiNK – (6:09)
“In the event of a psychiatric emergency, assume the bracing position. Ensure your feet are flat on the floor, lean forward with your elbows against your thighs, place your head between your knees and sob uncontrollably” – Rethink your safety by Taimi and Stewart Allan and Steve Carter for the Big reTHiNK – (6:58)
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The Big reTHiNK – over 70 cast and crew, only ONE tech and ONE dress rehearsal! – (3:30)
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Sean Hurst for the “Alien” Costumes in “Making Sense” for The Big reTHiNK (1:18)
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
The Big reTHiNK – 10 Hours Pack in for Q Theatre (one day before performance) and 1 HOUR pack out on the SAME NIGHT as the final performance.
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Ferris Wheel Dance – (Concept written by Rosetta Allan, Directed and Choreographed by Georgia Giesen,
Song by Stewart Allan and Anton Morgan (from the Freefalling album “Shimmer”) For The Big reTHiNK
Dancers: Zarah Kileen-Chance, Lucy Lynch, Rosa Provost – (0:19)
The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
The Big reTHiNK!
The Big reTHiNK was a multi-genre live performance (music, theatre, film, dance, poetry, visual art and stand up comedy) which took the live audience on a seamless, interactive emotional roller-coaster ride mimicking the journey from mental illness to recovery. This production was the first of it’s kind anywhere in the world.
Matt Baker posted 21 Nov 2012, 09:10 AM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year
Geraldine Brophy & George Henare – Awatea
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year
Jeremy Hewett – An Unseasonable Fall Of Snow
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year
Free Load
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year
The stairs during the curtain call for the opening night of Bucket Boy
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year
Chris Brain – The Big reTHINK
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play
Colleen Davis – Little Shop of Horrors
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play
“He’s 33 when they first meet. The same age as Jesus… When he was 33.” – Third Person Tense (written by Stephen Papps)
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year
The trap-door in Black Confetti
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year
Zara Cormack – The Sex Show
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Dressing of the Year
Phoebe Hurst – Big Mouths (Kung Faux: Call of The Siren)
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year
The Laramie Project
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year
The Pitmen Painters (Kristen Sorrenson & Karen Newborn)
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year
The cast of Eigengrau
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year
Jason Hodzelmans & Cole Jenkins – Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (choreographed by Zara Cormack)
The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year
Black Confetti
Jean Louis posted 21 Nov 2012, 09:36 AM / edited 21 Nov 2012, 11:06 AM
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Andrew Monroe as I.M. Flourishing in the play “N.O.T “for The Big reTHiNK 1:25
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
The Big reTHiNK
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Marina Volkova as Ruth in Wayward Seniors (The Big reTHiNK) = “Alzheimers” (1:05)
Flynn Allan as Jamie in “Terribly Unwell” (The Big reTHiNK) = a Child with “Human personality Disorder” (1:23)
Jennifer Freed as Nicola in “Hang on Tight” (The Big reTHiNK) = Depression (1:00)
Chris Brain’s Panic Attack in The Big reTHiNK = Anxiety (6:00)
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Daniel Larsen-Barr as The Thinker in “Somehow in Relation” for the big reTHiNK (6:30)
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
“I was born… to Soar” – Wayward Seniors by Rex McGregor (for The Big reTHiNK) -(7:35)
“You see most things stem from either OCD, Depression or… mad eyes” – Mad-o-phobic by Lynz Wilmshurst for The Big reThiNK (4:09)
“Doctor Sats I need An STD Woo Hoooo!!!” – Terribly Unwell by Sheree Veysey for The Big reTHiNK – (6:09)
“In the event of a psychiatric emergency, assume the bracing position. Ensure your feet are flat on the floor, lean forward with your elbows against your thighs, place your head between your knees and sob uncontrollably” – Rethink your safety by Taimi and Stewart Allan and Steve Carter for the Big reTHiNK – (6:58)
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The Big reTHiNK – over 70 cast and crew, only ONE tech and ONE dress rehearsal! – (3:30)
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Sean Hurst for the “Alien” Costumes in “Making Sense” for The Big reTHiNK (1:18)
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
The Big reTHiNK – 10 Hours Pack in for Q Theatre (one day before performance) and 1 HOUR pack out on the SAME NIGHT as the final performance.
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Ferris Wheel Dance – (Concept written by Rosetta Allan, Directed and Choreographed by Georgia Giesen,
Song by Stewart Allan and Anton Morgan (from the Freefalling album “Shimmer”) For The Big reTHiNK
Dancers: Zarah Kileen-Chance, Lucy Lynch, Rosa Provost – (0:19)
The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
The Big reTHiNK!
The Big reTHiNK was a multi-genre live performance (music, theatre, film, dance, poetry, visual art and stand up comedy) which took the live audience on a seamless, interactive emotional roller-coaster ride mimicking the journey from mental illness to recovery. This production was the first of it’s kind anywhere in the world.
Grae Burton posted 21 Nov 2012, 09:40 AM
MY COMPLETELY UNBIASED OPINION…
The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year… ASCIA AND MIKE IN LOVE AND MONEY COZ THEY ARE SEXY YO!
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… EMMANUELLE BAIN – FREE LOAD – BEING BORN OUT OF BOXES RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE AUDIENCE.
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… FREE LOAD, ALL FOUR OF THEM.
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year… THE PLANNED SHORT CIRCUIT FIZZLE IN COFFEE WITH EELCO WHERE EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE HAS TO GET UP, TURN AROUND THREE TIMES, SPIT ON THE GROUND AND SWEAR AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS TO BREAK THE CURSE OF MACBETH…
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… EMMANUELLE BAINS IN FREE LOAD PLAYING A SCHIZOPHENIC COMPUTER AVATAR
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play… BREL CAST
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… “PRICK ME DO I NOT BLEED, TICKLE ME, DO I NOT TICKLE YOU BACK!” COFFEE WITH EELCO
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. LOVE AND MONEY CAST
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… GRAE BURTON IN COFFEE WITH EELCO PLAYING A 50’S HOUSEWIFE AGAINST COFFEE, “AS SATAN IS TO OUR LORD THE ANTI-CHRIST, SO TOO COFFEE IS THE ANTI TEA…”
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… SHORT+SWEET, ALL OF THEM
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of Gay Play, staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… ISN’T ALL THEATRE GAY?
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year… MOTHER EARTH IN THAT MUSICAL THINGY…
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year… EVERY COFFEE WITH EELCO SEASON, PARTICULARLY IF IT’S IN YOUR LOUNGE.
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… FREE LOAD
Jordan Mooney posted 21 Nov 2012, 01:42 PM
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Laura Daniel (Unitec BREL)
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year… Gunshot going off 2 scenes too early in Punk Rock
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play… Rebekah Brady (Unitec BREL)
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. Lol Jordan Mooney in The Sex Show
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Unitecs BREL
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of Gay Play, staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… Um.. Awatea?
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year… Outfits The Sex Show – like lightening!
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… Unitecs BREL
G G posted 21 Nov 2012, 07:31 PM
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… There were several good ones in Black Confetti…
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… Why Is Everybody So Full Of Technique?
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year… The front 2 rows of the Maidment being ticketed but not installed for “8”
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… Leon Wadham in Tribes
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play… BREL. Does that count? Is that a play? I guess not. Brel anyway.
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… “”Why would you wank in a girl’s hair?” “Um, some women like that.”” – The Motor Camp
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. Jordan Mooney in The Sex Show. Please get naked when you win this.
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Stage Two for The Crucible
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year… Terror Island, Kate Simmonds in particular
The AUCKLAND FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… Why Is Everybody So Full Of Technique?
Joseph Harper posted 21 Nov 2012, 10:44 PM
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
The Charlie Morris Funeral Show
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
In Black Confetti when he reached into that projection’s chest.
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Kip’s dick via Black Confetti
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Joseph Moore in Bombs Away
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
All the sick fucks in Confessions
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Arthur Meek had pretty great kicks in the Richard Meros show (great Kobe colourway)
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
The robot from bomb’s away
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Sean Curham’s Ghosting – part 2 Cabaret. Easily.
HACKMAN Theatre Awards posted 22 Nov 2012, 12:48 AM / edited 26 Nov 2012, 03:21 PM
A reminder of all the theatre that has been on this year…what a year!
Please shout out if we missed any shows!
WHERE ARE YOU MY ONLY ONE?
CRIMES OF THE HEART
EIGENGRAU
TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
PACIFIC DANCE LABORATORY 2012
CONSTANTINOPLE
MANCUB
13
NUCLEAR FAMILY
LIKE SMOKE IN HERE AND NORMA STRONG
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
BREL
MEAT
THE SOMNAMBULIST
MANAWA
PAPER SKY: A LOVE STORY
POTTED POTTER: THE UNAUTHORIZED HARRY EXPERIENCE
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS
MARY POPPINS
THIRD PERSON TENSE!
THE LIKES OF A LOVELESS DOGWASHER
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
A FRIGATE BIRD SINGS
BIG MOUTHS
SHORT+SWEET THEATRE, AUCKLAND 2012
TERROR ISLAND – A DANCE THRILLER
THE SEX SHOW
BUCKET BOY
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK!
A HEART’S PATH
SPEAKEASY
MISS FLETCHER SINGS THE BLUES
THE RED CHAIR
HAIRY MACLARY
DAY AFTER NIGHT
THE GIFT
MOTHERLOCK / PURE
TICKING TIME BOMB
COWBOY MOUTH AND LOVE IT UP
HYPOTHESIS ONE: A COMPOUND REACTION FROM NEW ZEALAND SAMOANS
TINY SPECTACLE / SHITTY LYRICISM
PRIVATE LIVES
MICHAEL JAMES MANAIA
LEN LYE THE OPERA
GODDESS AND MAB’S ROOM
BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
DROWNING IN VERONICA LAKE
THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER
EDUCATING RITA
WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED
TARO KING
THE PANTRY SHELF
NØUGHTY GIRLS
FREE LOAD
THE TRIUMPHANTS
THE PRIDE
CIRQUE NON SEQUITUR
KRISHNAN’S DAIRY
INVITING CAROLINE
WHY IS EVERYBODY SO FULL OF TECHNIQUE?
AWATEA
HAU ‘O MOMO – THE WAY OF MOMO
THE GURU OF CHAI
THE ARRIVAL
TUSK TUSK
CHECKOUT CHICKS THE MUSICAL
THE MAGIC CHICKEN
BLACK CONFETTI
THE GINGERBREAD MAN
ALICE
THE GREAT PIRATICAL RUMBUSTIFICATION
SQUARE EYE PAIR
TOO SOLO SHOW
KAHA: SHORT WORKS
SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS
A SHORTCUT TO HAPPINESS
TRIBES
COPENHAGEN
THE LION IN WINTER
EN ROUTE – GO TO
THE LION IN WINTER
NOEL AND GERTIE
COURSE RELATED COSTS
STANDSTILL
ULLA’S ODYSSEY & LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
BARD DAY’S NIGHT
RUDALI – THE MOURNER
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM
CHUB
YETI IS DEAD: I AM TOM
BOMBS AWAY! A MUSICAL
MRS VAN GOGH
THE BRAVE
EVERYTHING SHE EVER SAID TO ME
THE BENCH OR HELLO FOR DUMMIES
EVERYTHING SHE EVER SAID TO ME
JERSEY BOYS – THE STORY OF FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS
THIS KITCHEN IS NOT IMAGINARY
SINARELLA
PUNK ROCK
SHIP SONGS
THE MĀORI TROILUS AND CRESSIDA – TOROIHI RĀUA KO KĀHIRA
DIALOGUE WITH A MANNEQUIN
LITTLE HISTORIES OF THE LIFE ORDINARY
IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY)
BIRDS
COFFEE WITH EELCO
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
THE SEVEN FUNERALS OF CHARLIE MORRIS
THE LAST FIVE YEARS
PLAY ME DEADLY!
HIS MOTHER’S SON
HIS MOTHER’S SON
SHOW PONY
TOP GIRLS
PROVIDENCE
VAGUE MEDITATIONS AND THE IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF A TIME MACHINE
BE | LONGING: A VERBATIM PLAY
MIXED NUTS 2- UNDERWORLD
THE ARTEFACT PROJECT
CALL CUTTA IN A BOX
INVISIBLE ATOM
2 DIMENSIONAL LIFE OF HER
I AM A WEE BIT STUMPED
MUSIC AND ME
LOVE IS A STREET FIGHT
THE MOTOR CAMP
DARK STARS
LEOPARD
CANVAS
THIS IS THE STAND I MADE. (HOME EDITION)
THE WASTE LAND
SILENT NIGHT
Happy Voting!!!
Pete Coates posted 23 Nov 2012, 11:30 AM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…Clark Connolly (Andrew Ford) and Grace Connolly (Nicole Jorgenson) – THE SEX SHOW
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…Henry (Andrew Ford) – COURSE RELATED COSTS
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…BLACK CONFETTI
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…The gunshot going off 2 scenes too early in PUNK ROCK
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…Andrew Ford in AN AWKWARD FAMILY CHRISTMAS
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…The Cast of the UNITEC BREL
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…Joe Masters to his fiance Ally, after telling her to go wait in the car, “and don’t eat the mints in the glovebox…I’m saving them”
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…Shooting down a hanging lamp in PUNK ROCK
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. Jordan Mooney – THE SEX SHOW
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…Shimpal Lelisi – A FRIGATE BIRD SINGS
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…PUNK ROCK
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…The Chesire Cat – ALICE
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…Nathan Mudge as William in PUNK ROCK
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…Any show by THE OUTFIT, in and out like lightning!
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…Zaar Cormack and Devlin Bishop in THE SEX SHOW
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…COURSE RELATED COSTS by Colin Garlick
Josephine Stewart posted 23 Nov 2012, 05:23 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year… Danielle Cormack and Bronwyn Bradley in “Top Girls”
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Sam Snedden as a Nazi in “The Pride”
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… “Terror Island”
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… Renee Lyons as “Beth Loffreda” in “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later” OR Sophie Hambleton as “Angie” in “Top Girls”
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play… Aidee Walker in “And Then You Die”
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… “And I wear my lobster suit everyday to remind myself of how far I’ve come as a Lobst… Actor.” – Nisha Madhan for “Love it Up”
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year… Snow Machine in every production that “Celery” has done.
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. Poster for “Private Lives” (the boob).
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Alisha Lawrie Paul as “Old Man Frankie” in “Little Histories”
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Cast of “Punk Rock”
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… SOPHIE ROBERTS
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year… Josh Rutters Cardboard lobster costume which cracked open to reveal a a David Bowie-esque rock and roll star costume underneath, complete with feathers and tie-dye. Made by Lara Fischel-Chisholm for “Love it Up”
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….
“Going to the theatre is an experience. Some companies even have a Customer Experience Manager who monitors the entire occasion from beginning to end. It’s not just what happens on the stage but the journey to the theatre, the cost and convenience of car parking, finding a meal nearby, the welcome at the box office, the cleanliness of the toilets, the smile from the usher, the ambience of the theatre, the glass of wine during the interval, the ease of departure, the air conditioning, the whole kit and caboodle that makes going to the theatre a joy or a nightmare.
I’ve been critical of The Basement in the past but not this time. The box office experience is always pleasant and this continued to be the case with Eigengrau. A smile costs nothing and the one I was greeted with was warm and welcoming. The quick pit stop at the Ladies was almost a revelation. Everything was pristine clean and fresh as a daisy.
The usher was sweet and the theatre, to be frank, the most pleasant surprise I’ve had in a performance space for a long time. There was no hint of the old dust and grime; the smell of fresh paint sat lightly in the air, the walls were gleaming from a spanking new paint job and the whole place looked delightfully revamped.” – Lexi Matheson reviews “Eigengrau”
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year… All the women in “Top Girls”
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year… “Terror Island”!!! HANDS DOWN!
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… Cowboy Mouth/Love it Up by Nisha Madhan
James Wenley posted 23 Nov 2012, 06:27 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Seymour and Audrey II
Morgan Albrecht and the Pink Cake (Sleepover)
Harry and David in Day After Night
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Julia Croft, Black Confetti
Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Awatea, ATC
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
The bed that wouldn’t slot back into the set of Bucket Boy, and then later clonked the lead actor. (Second Night)
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Leon Wadham, Tribes
Emanuelle Bains, Free Load
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Michelle Blundell Total Eclipse of the Heart in Eigengrau
Hayley Sproull – Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
“I’m not a pie” – The Seven Funerals of Charlie Morris by Chris Neels
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Snowmachine in Nick (The Triumphants)
The office controlled by a call centre in India in Call Cutta in a Box
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Zara Cormack and Jordan Mooney, The Sex Show
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Renee Lyons, Nick
Jacob Rajan, Krishnan’s Dairy
Kinloch Anstiss, Day After Night
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The Cast of Massive’s The Brave
Honourable mention: Michael Hurst in Bard’s Day Night
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
You mean the director of the YEAR? Sophie Roberts…
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Cheshire Cat, Alice
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….
The quick pit stop at the Ladies was almost a revelation. Everything was pristine clean and fresh as a daisy. – Lexie Matheson, Theatreview (Eigengrau)
“ I can’t say I slept very well, being a man of above average height, having to curl myself to fit.” – James Wenley, Theatre Scenes (Sleepover)
“It feels as if Brown and Glass have done the first semester of Philosophy 100 and taken an online scriptwriting course, and decided to write an unsolicited thesis in the form of a play using Wikipedia as their one and only reference tool.” Matt Baker, Theatre Scenes (Bucket Boy)
“But this is what Black Confetti does: it makes you excited about theatre. It’s a dark and glittering show that shivers and quakes, and one that keeps you guessing about what will happen next, not only in the play, but in New Zealand theatre.” –Rosabel Tan, Theatre Scenes
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Delaney (Hayley Brown) in The Likes of a Loveless Dogwasher
Chrissy (Kat Wesseling), Sleepover
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Lara Fischel-Chrisholm, Jennie Robertson, Roberto Nascimento and Thomas Sainsbury in Terror Island
Mia Blake in Private Lives
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
This Kitchen is not Imaginary
Wake Less
Bathing with Elephants
Tiny Spectacle / Shitty Lyrcisim
virginia frankovich posted 23 Nov 2012, 07:19 PM / edited 24 Nov 2012, 01:16 PM
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the year
Sam Snedden in The Pride
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
This kitchen is not imaginary
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Sophie Hambleton – ‘Top Girls’ depicting Dull Griet aka Mad Meg from Bruegel painting
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play..
Colleen Davis – little shop of horrors
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
“Pull the trigger and this heat erupts in the back of your throat. All the force of Tarawera. And bang! All in one split-second. The remains of your consciousness become little more than a Jackson Pollock wet-dream over the wall behind you.” – Joseph Harper (‘the boy & the bicycle’ in tinyspectacle/shitty lyricism)
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
The Gift – projection of girl dancing
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Kip Chapman in Black Confetti 😉
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Steven Anthony Maxwell in ‘Chub’ or Andrea Kelland as that creepy man in ‘Speak Easy’
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
Tribes – maybe not defined as ‘ensemble’ but they were the perfect cast
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Sophie Roberts
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Marlene (Danielle Cormack) in top girls (with a ‘tip of the hat’ to Joseph Moore in Bombs Away – woman with scarf)
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….
“I’d brought my family, a last minute decision, so my ten year old son was still in his karate gi. I hoped the decision would prove to be appropriate and it turned out it was.” – Lexie Mathewson
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Leon Wadham in tribes 🙁 🙁 🙁
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
Any production involving ruby reihanna Wilson. That girl has got it down-pack. And will do it all with a kebab in her hand.
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Bombs Away cast
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
The Triumphants
Steven Maxwell posted 24 Nov 2012, 08:52 PM
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Yael Gezentsvey in Nuclear Family.
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Eigengrau.
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Janelle Bish with obesity in Chub.
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Colleen Davis in Little Shop of Horrors.
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Jordan Mooney in The Sex Show.
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The ensemble of Eigengrau.
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Leon Wadham in Tribes.
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
Ruby Reihana and co. in Nuclear Family.
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
The Triumphants.
Michael Craven posted 25 Nov 2012, 02:34 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Paul Glover (Carolyn Cassady) and Scott Wills (Neal Cassady) In “Beautiful Losers”
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Matt Baker in “The Break Up” as part of the Short and Sweet Play Festival.
The re-entrance after breaking up with another mans girlfriend after being beaten up off stage then being thrown back onto the stage while wearing an elephant suit.
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
Michael Craven. Opening Night of The Dust Palace’s Love and Money. The lighting desk crashed right before the Larger than Life dance number. Managed to light the show with a followspot for 10 minutes while resussitating the desk. No one noticed.
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Renee Lyons in “Nick” as part of the Triumphants season at Q theatre and TAPAC
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
Ascia Maybury “It’s really hard to get it in when its that big.” In The Dust Palace’s “Love and Money”
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Michael Craven pouring water from the lighting grid on Geof Gilson as part of the Flashdance performance in The Dust Palace’s “Love and Money”
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Rebecca Coleman-Smith in the Dust Palace’s Cirque Non Sequitur
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Scott Wills as Joan Vollmer in “Beautiful Losers”
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The cast of “Culture Clash” at TAPAC
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
All the costumes in “The Pantry Shelf” at the Basement
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Natalie Hugill as Gary in “Lily Loca’s Vaudevillian Cabaret”
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
Tim Bray Productions “Hairy Maclary”. 10 hours from Go to Show for the Royal Performance at the Bruce Mason Centre.
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Geof Gilson performing Flashdance in the Dust Palace’s “Love and Money”
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Culture Clash at TAPAC directed by Beth Kayes. Written by Renee Liang
Will Greenwood posted 25 Nov 2012, 08:17 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Sam Snedden in ‘The Pride’
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
‘Private Lives’
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Virginia Frankovich in ‘Black Confetti’
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Hayley Sproull in ‘Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues’
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Anna Julienne and Adam Gardiner in ‘The Vibrator Play’
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year.
Renee Lyons in ‘The Triumphants’
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The cast of ‘Punk Rock’
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Sophie Roberts
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
The Ronettes in ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Nathan Mudge in ‘Punk Rock’
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
‘Terror Island’
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
‘Tiny Spectacle/Shitty Lyricism’
Natalie Beran posted 26 Nov 2012, 09:00 AM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year… Matt Baker Matt Baker in The Breakup (Short+Sweet)
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Black Confetti – most trap door entrances
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… Copenhagen – Jennifer Ward-Lealand gorgeous
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… “do you think you could belong for two weeks?” Robyn Paterson The South Afreakins
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year… Mark Scott – fridge light = bedside lamp in The Gospel According to Bowser (Short+Sweet)
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Crimes of the Heart (Sarah Gallagher, Breigh Foughy, Gina Timberlake, Natalie Beran, Preston O’Brien, Alex Walker) – dysfunctional family dynamics!
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year… Yeti (Yeti is Dead, I am Tom) + Robot (Lighthouse Keeper – Short+Sweet)
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year…. “great Danish poof” Bard Day’s Night
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year… Tom – Yeti is Dead, I am Tom
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year… Natalie Beran and team(s) for the Pumphouse Theatre packout Into the Woods, packin/out Musical Spectacular Concert and Pack in Crimes of the Heart – 9 hours/3 shows!!!
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… Love and Money The Dust Palace
Sophie Hambleton posted 26 Nov 2012, 02:38 PM
he SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year… Simon London and Kip Chapman THE PRIDE
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Sam Snedden in The Pride
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… Love it up
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year… Jennifer Lal
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… Renee Lyons as Beth Lofredda
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play… COLLEEN DAVIS LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. Kip Chapman in Black Confetti AND The Pride
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Josephine Stewart “young man on phone to grandma” – The Laramie Project 10 years on
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… The cast of THE PRIDE
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… SOPHIE ROBERTS
Sophie Hambleton posted 26 Nov 2012, 02:42 PM
May I please add Most Origianal Production: BREL SILO THEATRE COMPANY
Simon Ward posted 26 Nov 2012, 05:43 PM
I’ve only been back in NZ since August, so apologies to deserving nominees from the first half of 2012. Didn’t see you do your thing.
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Andrew Ford and Nicole Jorgensen, The Sex Show.
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Basement Theatre, because when you walk in the toilets no longer stink out the bar.
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Terror Island.
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
Not actually a ***k up, but Renee Lyons’ Korean character communicating directly with Ruby Reihana-Wilson during The Triumphants was awesome.
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Renee Lyons, The Triumphants.
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Michelle Blundell in Eigengrau. So good it makes you want to gouge your eyes out.
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
The “…33, the same age as Jesus was – when he was 33…” line from First Person Tense – Stephen Papps.
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Renee Lyons – the surgery sequence in The Triumphants.
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…
Jordan Mooney and Zara Cormack, The Sex Show.
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Chelsea McEwan Millar as the Irish guy in N0ughty Girls.
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
I know it’s lame for me to say Eigengrau but they were just such a f**king awesome team to work with.
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Nic Sampson. (…dunno, I wasn’t here.)
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
The Pantry Shelf.
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….
“The fact that Coddington is not only the Associate Director of the South Seas Film and TV School which he co-founded in 1991 (the on-screen acting course of which he developed 10 years later), but is also the Head of the School of Performing Arts at the Manukau Institute of Technology is genuinely terrifying.” The mercilesslly honest Matt Baker, Tell Me on a Sunday review.
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Nicole Jorgensen, The Sex Show.
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Terror Island (didn’t see the show, but if their performance at the Ride Out of the Blue Benefit was anything to go by… Roberto Nascimento’s relentless Blue Steel is a thing of beauty).
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
First Person Tense.
Sophie Roberts posted 26 Nov 2012, 10:57 PM
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Snedden. Nazi.
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Private Lives
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
Jen Lal
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Renee Lyons as Beth Lofredda in Laramie Project 10 Year Later
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Colleen Davis in Little Shop of Horrors
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Celery snow machine
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Kip in all of the plays
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Sophie Hambleton as “Young man at party” in Laramie Project 10 Years Later
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden – The Pride
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Jen Lal
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Tom Sainsbury in Yeti is dead I am Tom
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Mia Blake in Private Lives
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Brel
Chris Neels posted 27 Nov 2012, 12:14 AM
Littered with bias
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Morgan Albreht and Rufus the strawberry cake in Sleepover
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Private Lives – Silo
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
Morgan Albrechts opening nght premature labour, Sleepover
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Vriginia Frankovich Black confetti
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Ryan Richards, Bombs Away
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
‘You, my son, couldn’t fumble fuck your way out of a barrel of cunts’ Chris Neels Brogilantes
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Clerey’s Snow Machine
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Joseph Moore as ‘wife’ – Bombs Away
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The Lads from Ben Hens Titus
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
French Robot suit Bombs Away
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Katrina Wesseling Sleepover
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
The beer fueled pack in of Nics Garage, Brogilantes
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
The Lads of Bombs Away
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Little Historys of
Anders Falstie posted 27 Nov 2012, 02:16 AM
What a year! Here are my nominations:
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
George Henare and Geraldine Brophy in Awatea. There was tears, dribble and emotional moans. It was Intense with a capital I.
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Sam Snedden in The Pride – so Aryan, so strict.
The operator I spoke to in Call Cutta in a Box
Trygve Wakenshaw in Constantinople – He kept making an entrance for 2 minutes.
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Black Confetti. The playwright on the poster. Awesome.
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
I only saw smooth running shows this year.
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Virginia Frankovich in Black Confetti – cancer chic.
Yvette Parsons in Silent Night – that dodgy ticker kept me on the edge of my seat.
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Colleen was pretty amazing in Little Shop of Horrors
Didn’t Don McGlashan sing in Shipsongs? He’s a good singer too.
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
Manawa – “Fuck you New Zealand!” – BAM. That’s how you finish a play.
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
The endless mimed doors in Constantinople and/or the turntables in Constantinople – Sound effects combined with mime effects and acting.
The projections in Black Confetti – nice.
The vibrator in The Vibrator Play. It seemed so real.
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Adam Gardiner and Anna Julienne in The Vibrator Play
The cast of The Brave. Although not physically naked their hearts and souls were definitely exposed.
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Bok Choi in Sinarella. Was Bok a woman or camp guy? It was hard to say but who cares because Bok was awesome
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The Waste Land – the cast with a combined age of 1500 years had some moves.
Call Cutta in a Box – the Auckland cast and the Indian operators. Although we were all mere puppets in the hands of skilled form forward new deconstructionalist German theatre makers, I thought we did pretty good.
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Sophie Roberrrrts
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
John Parker – for David Aston’s costume in Shortcut to Happiness. So outrageous that no one but the Aston could pull it off.
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….
Hmm the computer wouldn’t allow me to cut and paste a full Lexie quote. It was good though. A tad long but very good.
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
I thought Simon London was very unlucky in love in The Pride and did it very well. He was a bit rough though but when repressed emotions take control…
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
Ruby Reihana-Wilson and Rob McDonald packing Standstill in and out of Q. Like lighting.
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Constantinople. Not only did the play feature dancing there was dancing after the show as well!
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
It’s a dead heat between:
Constantinople
Manawa
Black Confetti
Simon Ward posted 27 Nov 2012, 02:14 PM
Clean forgot about Brogilantes. Nominating them for:
Fastest pack-in/pack-out.
Best line: Chris Neels “you couldn’t fumble-fuck your way out of a barrell of cunts”
Best technical ***k-up: the night I went someone accidentally locked the door into the garage and one of the cast jumped out a window to run around and open it.
Most original production: garage theatre. Awesome.
Mark Prebble posted 27 Nov 2012, 04:29 PM
The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Nick telling his Mum he doesn’t want to live with her in The Triumphants
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Michael Koloi in A Heart’s Path
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Terror Island
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
The terrified audience member spewing on both sides of the seating block at Terror Island.
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Renee Lyons in The Triumphants
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Michelle Blundell in Eigengrau
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
“It’s 2009. John Key is Prime Minister. Hey, what happened to Helen?” from The Triumphants
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
The Boy With Tape on His Face
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Renee Lyons in The Triumphants
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
Eigengrau
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Lobster Man in Cowboy Mouth
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Both leads in Cowboy Mouth
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
Short +Sweet
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Terror Island
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Future Hotel’s IQ2
GO!!!!!!!
– then go here to book for the show
Jordan Selwyn posted 27 Nov 2012, 10:31 PM
Best Entrance of the Year… NAZI RENT BOY SNEDDEN.
Best Poster of the Year…BLACK CONFETTI.
Best Technical ***k up of the Year…THE MOUNDS OF POTTING MIX THAT TRIED TO KILL EVERYONE IN ‘DEATH OF A SALESMAN’.
Best Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…LEON WADHAM IN ‘TRIBES’.
Best Singing in a Play…COLLEEN DAVIS IN ‘LITTLE SHOP’.
Best Nudity of the Year…..MORGAN ALBRECHT’S LEFT BREAST IN THE ‘PRIVATE LIVES’ POSTER.
Best Cross Dressing of the Year…JOSEPH MOORE IN ‘BOMBS AWAY’
Best Director of Gay Play, staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… SOPHIE ROBERTS
Best Costume of the Year… RIMA TE WIATA’S ‘PLANT VOICE’ T-SHIRT IN ‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’.
Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…LAUREL DEVENIE IN ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’.
Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…MIA BLAKE’S KIKI IN ‘PRIVATE LIVES’.
Jessica Wood posted 28 Nov 2012, 03:21 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year… Matt Whelan/Mia Blake/Sophie Henderson/Sam Snedden – Private Lives
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… Renee Lyons – The Triumphants
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Massive Theatre – The Brave
Eli Matthewson posted 29 Nov 2012, 10:47 AM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year… Laura Hill, Simon London and their child in THE GIFT
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Lizzie Tollemache in THIRD PERSON TENSE
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… The Seven Funerals of Charlie Morris
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… Virginia Frankovich in BLACK CONFETTI
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play… MISS FLETCHER
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play… any and all of Virginia’s mouse monologue in HONEY (TINY SPECTACLE/SHITTY LYRICISM)
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year… The tea-towel sharks in THIS KITCHEN IS NOT IMAGINARY
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. Luke Wilson for being in his undies for almost the entirety of MAB’S ROOM
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Joseph Moore in BOMBS AWAY
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… My bloody class in JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… Sophie Roberts
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year… Rima and Kyle’s curtain call shirts in LITTLE SHOP
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year…. “Have I unknowingly entered The Rapture?” – Maraea Rakuraku on Guy Williams
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year… Nathan Mudge in PUNK ROCK
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year… Zara Cormack in THE SEX SHOW
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… TINY SPECTACLE/SHITTY LYRICISM
Wayne H posted 2 Dec 2012, 05:31 PM
The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Kip Chapman and Simon London in The Pride.
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Andrew Ford in Course Related Costs.
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Black Confetti.
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Andrew Ford in Awkward Family Christmas. Gorgeously funny.
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Jordan Mooney in The Sex Show. Please get it out.
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Joeseph Moore in Bombs Away.
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The cast of Punk Rock. Wow.
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Sophie Roberts.
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Nathan Mudge in Punk Rock.
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Ben Hensons Titus.
Susan Sanders posted 2 Dec 2012, 06:09 PM
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… COPENHAGEN
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… LEON WADHAM, TRIBES
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play… CAST OF BREL
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… EVE GORDON, LOVE AND MONEY
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… THE WASTE LAND
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year… MICHAEL HURST’S (now missing) COSTUME FOR BARD DAY’S NIGHT
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….”But always at the heart of this wonderfully jubilant piece is Hurst himself, mangling the text as Shakespeare would have wanted, eating it up, chewing it roundly, spitting it out with venom, passion, anger, lust and love”. (LEXIE MATHESON ON BARD DAY’S NIGHT)
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year… THE CAST OF EIGENGRAU
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… BLACK CONFETTI
Lara Fischel-Chisholm posted 3 Dec 2012, 10:28 AM
The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year… Kip Chapman and Simon London, The Pride
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Josh Rutter as Lobster Man, Cowboy Mouth
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… Terror Island, poster by Ross Liew
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year… Celery’s snow machine, I love that clever little bastard.
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. Ascia Maybury, any Dust Palace show
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year… Eve Gordon, Love and Money
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year… Little Histories
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Sophie Someone-or-rather?
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year… Yeti, Yeti is Dead/I am Tom
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year… Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu and Ash Jones, Cowboy Mouth
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year… DYNAMOTION, Terror Island
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… Nisha Madhan, Cowboy Mouth/Love It Up
Jasio Kaminski posted 3 Dec 2012, 01:21 PM
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Moes nipple for the silo poster
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Projector in Alice
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Sex Show Jordan Mooney
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
Punk Rock
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Bombs Away
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
William in Punk Rock
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Bombs Away
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Titus
T K posted 3 Dec 2012, 04:31 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Andrew Ford and Nicole Jorgenson- The Sex Show
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Laura Daniel- Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Unitec)
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Black Confetti
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Amanda Tito- The Dining Room (Unitec)
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Jordan Mooney- The Sex Show
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Joseph Moore- Bombs Away
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
Punk Rock
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Cast of Starving, Carving, Darling (short and sweet)
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….
Matt Baker in general
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Nathan Mudge- Punk Rock
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Tim Carlson- Little Shop of Horrors
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (UNITEC)
Bob Doran posted 3 Dec 2012, 06:09 PM
Who else for the Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year but George Henare playing a transvestite dominatrix playing Helen Clark AND Angela Merkel AND Kim Dotcom in the kaleidoscopic K Rd kabaret clusterfuck “Jews Brothers Bloomsday” at the Thirsty Dog?
Steve Dedalus posted 3 Dec 2012, 06:45 PM
Never did Marilyn look so good. Never was she shown such respect. ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year … Marilyn Monroe in a brilliant rainbow hooped top reading from Ulysses — Jews Brothers Bloomsday.
Calum Gittins posted 4 Dec 2012, 06:02 PM / edited 4 Dec 2012, 08:38 PM
Managed to use last years voting categories somehow. Only took me like an hour. Facepalm.
nik smythe posted 5 Dec 2012, 09:46 AM
Classic! I spent about that voting on Wellington’s Kippies categories before realising I’m was in the wrong city! High-facepalm-five!
Sarah Graham posted 5 Dec 2012, 01:15 PM
Some bias, some not.
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Andrew Ford and Nicole Jorgensen The Sex Show
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year… Laura Daniel in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and living in Paris (Unitec)
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year… Black Confetti. A-maze.
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Leon in Tribes
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Joel Herbert and Chris Tempest singing in Course Related Costs or Michelle Blundell in EIGENGRAU
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year… the projections in Alice and Black Confetti
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Jordan Mooney and Zara Cormack in The Sex Show
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Joseph Moore in Bombs Away!
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The Brave
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Duh
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year… All of Andrew Grainger’s Costumes in Little Shop of Horrors
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year… Simon London in The Pride. Poor guy.
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
I can only speak for ones I have been involved in so…The Sex Show would win hands down.
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
The cast of Bombs Away!
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year… The Little Histories of….I’m sorry I can’t remember the whole name but the programme was on our kitchen wall for months.
Louisa Hutchinson posted 5 Dec 2012, 03:56 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year… : PRIVATE LIVES
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year… : LEON WADHAM – TRIBES
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year….. : THE SEX SHOW
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year… : SOPHIE ROBERTS – THE PRIDE
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year… CAMERON RHODES – A SHORTCUT TO HAPPINESS. Also MIA BLAKE – PRIVATE LIVES.
Emma Newborn posted 5 Dec 2012, 04:30 PM
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Trygve Wakenshaw in Constantiople
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Renee Lyons – Nick “The Triumphants”
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Colleen Davis – Little Shop o’ Horrors
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
The solar system in Cowboy Mouth & Love it up
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
The musical interlude in “Confessions”
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Nick in “The Triumphants”
nisha madhan posted 5 Dec 2012, 04:46 PM
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Terror Island (Ross Liew)
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
The night during Cowboy Mouth when Josephine ran out of cigarette papers and had to leave the scene and walk in to the audience to “visit” her “neighbour” a one “Mrs. Lebowski” – i.e. me – to get some. This was followed by Ash calling “Mrs’ Lebowski” a “bitch” …
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Virginia Frankovich – Black Confetti
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Colleen Davis in Little Shop
Michelle Blundell in Eigengrau
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
The director would tell me to stay still and do less, talk about what’s happening in the room and tell the truth..and..well..that’s not really acting is it? – Cowboy Mouth & Love It Up
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The 14 men in Josh Rutter’s Dance Like a Butterfly Dream Boy
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Any show with the Celery Productions snow machine in it
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Ascia Maybury’s haggered tap/strip routine in Love & Money
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Schmophie Flawberts
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Lobster Man by Lara Fischel-Chisholm
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
Geoff Gilson’s Flashdance in Love & Money
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
The whole New Performance Festival curated by Stephen Bain
Celia Harrison posted 5 Dec 2012, 04:49 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…Kip Chapman and Simon London in The Pride.
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…Trygve’s Istanbul/Constantinople mime – Constantinople
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…Terror Island – Ross Liew
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…Celery’s snowfluid running out – The Triumphants
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…Renee Lyons – NICK
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…Julia Deans – Brel
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…’my life is like the opposite of a de ja vu’ – Freeload
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…Guru of Chai – Passing the parrot through the audience
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..Barnie & Trygve’s jazzpants in Constantinople
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…Alisha Lawrie Paul – Old Frankie – Little Histories
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…Cast of The Pride
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…SOPHIE ROBERTS!
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…Lobster in Cowboy Mouth
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….'”To my knowledge no one has ever before dared to attempt a split-level stage in the Basement Theatre space, until now.’ Little Histories
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…Ash and Jose in In Cowboy Mouth
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…Little Histories Crew
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year… TERROR ISLAND CAST!
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…Brel – Silo Theatre
Bob Doran posted 6 Dec 2012, 01:12 PM
Also — “We’re at the bottom of the world, as far away from every interesting place as it’s possible to be, so it costs us a fortune to go anywhere, we have the highest cost of living in the universe, we have wages so low we can compete with China, we have public holidays so few that other countries have to embark on austerity programmes to get down to our level, we have the most boring right-wing government in the world and the longest commercial breaks on TV… why are we here? … are we fuckin’ nuts or what?” — Linn Lorkin in Jews Brothers Bloomsday, PLAYMARKET NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line In a (Almost) Kiwi Play.
Ruby Reihana-Wilson posted 6 Dec 2012, 06:59 PM
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Terror Island (man Lara is a babe)
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
That one time I forgot to put fluid in the snow machine…. The Triumphants. It was only one time ok?!
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Renee Lyons – The Triumphants
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Michelle Blundell – Eigengrau
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Celery Productions snow machine (yeah it looked cool but it was a dick of a special effect to clean up).
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
Jordan and Zara – The Sex Show
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Renee Lyons – The Triumphants
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
All those Eigengrau babezz.
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
Sophie Roberts – a fellow Steiner kid.
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
All the costumes in The Pantry Shelf (particularly the wasabi peas can)
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….
Everything Matt Baker says
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Leon Wadham – Tribes
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
Nuclear Family pack out – yayurrrr
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
tiny spectacle/shitty lyricism. Yeah I’m voting for a show I worked on but C’MON GUYS it was pretty rad.
Ina Arraoui posted 7 Dec 2012, 01:34 PM
The HACKMAN Awards for 2012:
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
Renee Lyons – Triumphants. Q Theatre
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
MANAWA. Jamie MaCaskill
The Playmarket NEW ZEALAND Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
“….what d’ya think about that New Zealand?” MANAWA, Jamie MaCaskill, Basement.
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for Best Nudity of the Year…..
RENEE LYONS – Triumphants. Q Theatre.
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for Best Director of a Gay Play staring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden of the Year…
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year…
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year….
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
The NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a Theatre Show of the Year…
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
MANAWA – Jamie MaCaskill (?) Basement Theatre – FIVE STARS!!!
susan tearle posted 8 Dec 2012, 08:22 PM / edited 8 Dec 2012, 08:29 PM
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Morgan Albrecht and the Pink Cake (Sleepover)
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
Nathan Mudge- Punk Rock
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…PUNK ROCK
John Smythe posted 12 Dec 2012, 09:57 AM / edited 13 Dec 2012, 11:00 AM
At the HACKMANS – held at the Civic’s Wintergarden, Auckland, Monday 10 December – my abortive attempt to meet the producers’ brief by delivering an instant review of the night’s proceedings (before the end, as it turned out) was cut short. Fair enough. But having agreed to be acerbic and taken the ‘no turn unstoned’ approach, I intended to end as follows:
“Let me close by quoting Dame Diana Rigg, who compiled the book No Turn Unstoned: ‘There are so many wonderful qualities to be found in the theatre, and courage predominates every time an entrance is made, every time an actor or actress undertakes the daring and delicate task of making an audience believe. Another great quality is generosity of spirit.’
“I agree (and the same goes for theatre critics, by the way).
“I thank you all for your courage, generosity and spirit.”
Call me old fashioned but I did want to finish on that upbeat.
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Editor posted 13 Dec 2012, 09:53 AM
THE HACKMAN THEATRE AWARDS (Auckland) 2012
Nominees and Winners announced and presented at a gala function in the Civic Theatre’s Wintergarden on Monday 10 November 2012.
The AUCKLAND ACTORS Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Sam Snedden – The Pride – The Nazi!
Yael Gevenzky – Nuclear Family
The Basement Toilets – No longer making the bar smell like Urine.
Black Confetti – Various Trap-door entrances and exits
The Magic Chicken – Trygve Wakenshaw
And the winner is Sam Snedden – The Pride!
The ELEPHANT PUBLICITY Award for Best Poster of the Year…
The Heart’s Path – Jessica Sanderson
Ross Liew – Terror Island
Private Lives – the boob – Silo Theatre
Black Confetti – ATC
And the winner is: The Heart’s Path – Jessica Sanderson
The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…
Jen Lal – for being amazing!
The potting mix Incident – Death of a Salesman
Gunshot going off too early – Punk Rock
The bed that wouldn’t slot back into the set, and then later clonked, the lead actor on the head – Bucket Boy
And the winner is: The bed that wouldn’t slot back into the set, and then later clonked, the lead actor on the head – Bucket Boy
The SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES Award for Best Break Up of the Year…
Simon Kane and Bruce Philips – Copenhagen
Geraldine Brophy and George Henare – Awatea
Simon London and Kip Chapman – The Pride
And the winner is: There were tears, dribbles and emotional moans – it was intense with a capital I!
Geraldine Brophie and George Henare – Awatea
The ELIZABETH WHITING Award for Best Costume of the Year are…
The Lobster in Love It Up – Lara Fischel-Chisholm
Rima Te Wiata’s T-shirt in Little Shop of Horrors – Plant Voice
All the Food in the Pantry Shelf.
And the Winner is: All the Food in the Pantry Shelf
The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
Colleen Davis – Little Shop of Horrors
Michelle Blundell – Eigengrau
BREL – The Cast of Brel
Ryan Richards – Bombs Away
And the winner is: Colleen Davis – Little Shop of Horrors
The ROBERT BRUCE AGENCY Award for the best director of a gay play starring Kip Chapman, Simon London, Dena Kennedy and Sam Snedden
And the winner is:
Sophie Roberts – The Pride.
The PLAYMARKET Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
‘I can’t die yet I’m only up to season three of the wire’ – Eli Kent – Black Confetti
‘Fuck you New Zealand’ – Jamie McCaskill – Manawa
‘33 the same age as Jesus was when he was 33’ – Stephen Papps – Third Person Tense
And the Winner is: ‘Fuck you New Zealand’ – Jaimie McCaskill Manawa
The GAIL COWAN MANAGEMENT Award for Best Actress/Actor Playing a Character with a Disability/Medical Condition of the Year…
– this is a full category!
Leon Wadham for Tribes
Yvette Parsons for Silent Night
Sophie Hambleton for both characters in Top Girls
Renee Lyons for Nick
John Goudge for Mrs Van Gogh
And the Winner is: Yvette Parsons – Silent Night
The AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Award for Best Special Effect of the Year are…
Snow Machine in everything Celery Productions did
Black Confetti – hand opening projected body-bag – ATC
The Vibrator Play – The Vibrator – It seemed so real – ATC
The Projector in Alice – The Outfit
And the winner is: The Projector in Alice – The Outfit
The NZ DANCE COMPANY Award for Best Dancing in a play
Mia Blake – Private Lives
Dynamotion – Terror Island
The Cast of Bombs Away
And the Winner is: Dynamotion – Terror Island – especially Kate Simmonds
The JOHNSON AND LAIRD MANAGEMENT Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Shipal Lesi in A Frigate Bird Sings
Andrea Kelland in Speak Easy
Joseph Moore as “Wife” in Bombs Away
Renee Lyons in Nick
And the winner is: Renee Lyons in Nick
The HACKMAN Award for Best Unlucky in Love Character of the Year…
The Cast of Eigengrau
Thomas Sainsbury as Tom in Yeti is Dead/I am Tom
Leon Wadham in Tribes
Simon London in The Pride
And the winner is: Thomas Sainsbury as Tom – Yeti is Dead/I am Tom
The SILO THEATRE Award for Best Ensemble Acting of the Year…
The Laramie Project Ten Years on
The Cast of Brave – Massive Theatre Company
The Pride – Silo Theatre
Michael Hurst – Bards Days Night
And the winner is: The cast of the The Brave
The THEATREVIEW Award for Best Review Quote of the Year are…
“I’m being blinded by the light reflecting off the nipple tassles” – Sarah Idle
The quick pit stop at the Ladies was almost a revelation. Everything was pristine clean and fresh as a daisy. – Lexie Matheson, Theatreview (Eigengrau)
“I can’t say I slept very well, being a man of above average height, having to curl myself to fit.” – James Wenley, Theatre Scenes (Sleepover)
And the winner is:
“Going to the theatre is an experience. Some companies even have a Customer Experience Manager who monitors the entire occasion from beginning to end. It’s not just what happens on the stage but the journey to the theatre, the cost and convenience of car parking, finding a meal nearby, the welcome at the box office, the cleanliness of the toilets, the smile from the usher, the ambience of the theatre, the glass of wine during the interval, the ease of departure, the air conditioning, the whole kit and caboodle that makes going to the theatre a joy or a nightmare.
“I’ve been critical of The Basement in the past but not this time. The box office experience is always pleasant and this continued to be the case with Eigengrau. A smile costs nothing and the one I was greeted with was warm and welcoming. The quick pit stop at the Ladies was almost a revelation. Everything was pristine clean and fresh as a daisy.
“The usher was sweet and the theatre, to be frank, the most pleasant surprise I’ve had in a performance space for a long time. There was no hint of the old dust and grime; the smell of fresh paint sat lightly in the air, the walls were gleaming from a spanking new paint job and the whole place looked delightfully revamped.” – Lexi Matheson reviews Eigengrau.
The Nic and Joe award for Best Self-Promotion in the Hackman Theatre Award forums.
The Outfit – not so much this year
The Big Rethink
Everyone who voted for themselves
And the winner is The Big Rethink
The KATHRYN RAWLINGS AND ASSOCIATES Award for best Nudity on stage are:
Poster for Private Lives – Silo theatre
The Cast of The Sex Show – The Outfit
Kip Chapman for everything he was in
The Vibrator Play – Anna Jullien and Adam Gardiner
The winner is Poster for Private Lives – Silo Theatre
The JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD for the fastest pack in/pack out by a production team of the year…
The Sex Show – Brad Gledhill and co.
Nuclear Family – Ruby Reihana-Wilson and co.
The Big Rethink Team
Ruby Reihana-Wilson for every show she’s done this year
And the Winner is:
Ruby Reihana-Wilson
The AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Award for Most Original Production of the Year…
Brel
Tiny Spectacle / Shitty Lyricism
Little Histories of the Life Ordinary
Nick
Black Confetti
CONTANTINOPLE
And the winner is:
CONTANTINOPLE
The Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award was Paul Minifie
The STAMP at the Edge Best Newcomer Awards…
The Winner of the Best Newcomer Stage Manager of the Year was Stacey Donaldson
The Winner of the Best Newcomer Producer Award of the Year was Celery Productions
The Winner of the Best Newcomer Marketing Manager of the Year was Tim Blake
The Winner of the Best Newcomer All-Rounder of the Year was Nisha Madhan
The Winner of the Best Newcomer Actor of the Year was Jordan Mooney.
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