Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play
Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play | |
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Awarded for | Best Play |
Location | United Kingdom |
Presented by | Evening Standard |
Currently held by | Lynn Nottage for Sweat (2019) |
The Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play is an annual award presented by the Evening Standard since 1955, in recognition of achievement in British theatre.
Winners and nominees[]
1950s[]
Ceremony | Play | Writer |
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1st | ||
Tiger at the Gates | Christopher Fry | |
2nd | ||
Romanoff and Juliet | Peter Ustinov | |
3rd | ||
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Ray Lawler | |
4th | ||
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | |
5th | ||
The Long and the Short and the Tall | Willis Hall |
1960s[]
Ceremony | Play | Writer |
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6th | ||
The Caretaker | Harold Pinter | |
7th | ||
Becket | Jean Anouilh (play) and Lucienne Hill (translation) | |
8th | ||
The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Bertolt Brecht and Eric Bentley | |
9th | ||
Poor Bitos | Jean Anouilh (play) and Lucienne Hill (translation) | |
10th | ||
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee | |
11th | ||
The Killing of Sister George | Frank Marcus | |
A Patriot for Me | John Osborne | |
12th | ||
Loot | Joe Orton | |
13th | ||
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Peter Nichols | |
14th | ||
The Hotel in Amsterdam | John Osborne | |
15th | ||
The National Health | Peter Nichols |
1970s[]
Ceremony | Play | Writer |
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16th | ||
Home | David Storey | |
17th | ||
Butley | Simon Gray | |
18th | ||
Jumpers | Tom Stoppard | |
19th | ||
Saturday, Sunday, Monday | Eduardo De Filippo (play), Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall (translation) | |
20th | ||
The Norman Conquests | Alan Ayckbourn | |
21st | ||
Otherwise Engaged | Simon Gray | |
22nd | ||
Weapons of Happiness | Howard Brenton | |
23rd | ||
Just Between Ourselves | Alan Ayckbourn | |
24th | ||
Night and Day | Tom Stoppard | |
25th | ||
Amadeus | Peter Shaffer |
1980s[]
Ceremony | Play | Writer |
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26th | ||
The Dresser | Ronald Harwood | |
27th | ||
Passion Play | Peter Nichols | |
28th | ||
The Real Thing | Tom Stoppard | |
29th | ||
"Master Harold"...and the Boys | Athol Fugard | |
30th | ||
Benefactors | Michael Frayn | |
31st | ||
Pravda | David Hare and Howard Brenton | |
32nd | ||
Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Christopher Hampton | |
33rd | ||
A Small Family Business | Alan Ayckbourn | |
34th | ||
Aristocrats | Brian Friel | |
35th | ||
Ghetto | Joshua Sobol (play) and David Lan (translation) |
1990s[]
Ceremony | Play | Writer |
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36th | ||
Shadowlands | William Nicholson | |
37th | ||
Dancing at Lughnasa | Brian Friel | |
38th | ||
Angels in America | Tony Kushner | |
39th | ||
Arcadia | Tom Stoppard | |
40th | ||
Three Tall Women | Edward Albee | |
41st | ||
Pentecost | David Edgar | |
42nd | ||
Stanley | Pam Gems | |
43rd | ||
The Invention of Love | Tom Stoppard | |
44th | ||
Copenhagen | Michael Frayn | |
45th | ||
N/A |
2000s[]
Ceremony | Play | Writer |
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46th | ||
Blue/Orange | Joe Penhall | |
47th | ||
The Far Side of the Moon | Robert Lepage | |
Mouth To Mouth | Kevin Elyot | |
The Shape Of Things | Neil LaBute | |
48th | ||
A Number | Caryl Churchill | |
The Lieutenant Of Inishmore | Martin McDonagh | |
The York Realist | Peter Gill | |
49th | ||
Democracy | Michael Frayn | |
After Mrs Rochester | Polly Teale | |
Fallout | Roy Williams | |
50th | ||
The History Boys | Alan Bennett | |
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | Edward Albee | |
The Pillowman | Martin McDonagh | |
51st | ||
The Home Place | Brian Friel | |
2,000 Years | Mike Leigh | |
Bloody Sunday | Richard Norton-Taylor | |
Harvest | Richard Bean | |
52nd | ||
Rock 'n' Roll | Tom Stoppard | |
Frost/Nixon | Peter Morgan | |
The Seafarer | Conor McPherson | |
53rd | ||
A Disappearing Number | Complicité and Simon McBurney | |
Rafta, Rafta... | Ayub Khan-Din | |
The Reporter | Nicholas Wright | |
54th | ||
The Pitmen Painters | Lee Hall | |
Black Watch | Gregory Burke | |
Now or Later | Christopher Shinn | |
55th | ||
Jerusalem | Jez Butterworth | |
August: Osage County | Tracy Letts | |
ENRON | Lucy Prebble | |
Punk Rock | Simon Stephens |
2010s[]
Multiple awards and nominations[]
Awards[]
6 awards
3 awards
2 awards
Nominations[]
3 nominations
2 nominations
- Annie Baker
- Mike Bartlett
- Richard Bean
- Jez Butterworth
- James Graham
- Lucy Kirkwood
- Bruce Norris
- Lynn Nottage
- Lucy Prebble
- Roy Williams
See also[]
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
- Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play
- Tony Award for Best Play
References[]
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- ^ "Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2016: Who won and why". www.standard.co.uk. 2016-11-14. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ Dex, Robert (2016-11-09). "Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2016: The shortlist". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ Desk, Evening Standard Arts (2017-12-04). "Evening Standard Theatre Award judges on how they chose the winners". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ Dex, Robert (2017-11-17). "Here's the shortlist for the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ Thompson, Jessie (2018-11-19). "Find out the winners of this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ "Read the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2018 shortlist in full". www.standard.co.uk. 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ Paskett, Zoe (2019-11-25). "The 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards winners in full". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ "The 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards shortlist in full". www.standard.co.uk. 2019-11-04. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
External links[]
Categories:
- Award ceremonies
- Evening Standard Awards