Helpmann Award for Best Play
Helpmann Award for Best Play | |
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Awarded for | Best Play |
Location | Australia |
Presented by | Live Performance Australia |
Currently held by | Counting & Cracking (2019) |
Website | HelpmannAwards.com.au |
The Helpmann Award for Best Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001.[1] The award is for a production of a play, which may be a new work or a revival of an existing work. This is a list of winners and nominations for the Helpmann Award for Best Play.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour.
- Source:[2][3]
2000s
2010s
Year | Title | Production compan(y/ies) |
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2010 (10th) | ||
Richard III | Melbourne Theatre Company | |
August: Osage County | Melbourne Theatre Company | |
Happy Days | Malthouse Theatre | |
The Book of Everything | Company B Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image | |
2011 (11th) | ||
The Wild Duck | Belvoir | |
The Diary of a Madman | Belvoir | |
Uncle Vanya | Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare | |
Do not go gentle | fortyfivedownstairs | |
2012 (12th) | ||
Ganesh Versus the Third Reich | Back to Back Theatre, Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Festival | |
Neighbourhood Watch | Belvoir | |
The Boys | Griffin Theatre Company and Sydney Festival | |
The Importance of Being Earnest | Melbourne Theatre Company | |
2013 (13th) | ||
The Secret River | Sydney Theatre Company, The Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Sydney Festival, The Centenary of Canberra, Perth International Arts Festival | |
Medea | Belvoir and Australian Theatre for Young People | |
Death of a Salesman | Belvoir | |
Hedda Gabler | State Theatre Company of South Australia | |
2014 (14th) | ||
Angels in America | Belvoir | |
Roman Tragedies | Toneelgroep Amsterdam presented by Adelaide Festival in association with Adelaide Festival Centre | |
The Shadow King | Malthouse Theatre in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals (Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, Melbourne Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and Sydney Festival) | |
Waiting for Godot | Sydney Theatre Company | |
2015 (15th) | ||
The Glass Menagerie | Belvoir | |
Calpurnia Descending | Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company | |
Suddenly Last Summer | Sydney Theatre Company | |
Endgame | Sydney Theatre Company | |
2016 (16th) | ||
The Bleeding Tree | Griffin Theatre Company | |
North by Northwest | Melbourne Theatre Company and Kay + McLean Productions by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures | |
Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster | Performing Lines and Nicola Gunn | |
Prize Fighter | La Boite Theatre Company and Brisbane Festival | |
2017 (17th) | ||
The Drover's Wife | Belvoir | |
Jasper Jones | Melbourne Theatre Company | |
Once in Royal David's City | Queensland Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company | |
Things I Know To Be True | State Theatre Company of South Australia and Frantic Assembly | |
2018 (18th) | ||
The Children | Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company | |
The Irresistible | Side Pony Productions and The Last Great Hunt | |
The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man | Malthouse Theatre | |
Black is the New White | Sydney Theatre Company | |
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Sydney Theatre Company | |
Laser Beak Man | Brisbane Festival, La Boite Theatre Company and Dead Puppet Society in association with PowerArts | |
2019 (19th)[4][5] | ||
Counting and Cracking | Belvoir and Co-Curious | |
Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death | Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre | |
The Harp in the South: Part One and Part Two | Sydney Theatre Company | |
Song for a Weary Throat | Rawcus | |
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Parts One and Two) | Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, and Michael Cassel | |
The Second Woman | Nat Randall and Anna Breckon and Performing Lines |
See also
References
- ^ "About". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "Nominees". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "Australian Web Archive 2001 Helpmann Awards Nominees". Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Australian Web Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2003. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ "2019 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ "2019 Helpmann Awards Act II presented". Limelight. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
External links
- The official Helpmann Awards website
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Helpmann Award for Best Play
- Life After George (2001)
- Cloudstreet (2002)
- Copenhagen (2003)
- Inheritance (2004)
- The Sapphires (2005)
- Stuff Happens (2006)
- The Lost Echo (2007)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2008)
- War of the Roses (2009)
- Richard III (2010)
- The Wild Duck (2011)
- Ganesh Versus the Third Reich (2012)
- The Secret River (2013)
- Angels in America (2014)
- The Glass Menagerie (2015)
- The Bleeding Tree (2016)
- The Drover's Wife (2017)
- The Children (2018)
- Counting and Cracking (2019)