The Mercury Durban Theatre Awards 2008-2009 nominations list.The seventh annual awards evening of The Mercury Durban Theatre Awards takes place at 19h30 on November 23 at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre where the theatre industry honours those who have produced work of a considerably high standard.
Along with the regular awards, which include the Judges Award and The Mercury Personality of the Year Award, the DTA will host the presentation of a new award in honour of the much-loved and respected broadcaster and writer, Monica Fairall. The Monica Fairall Memorial Award, selected independently of the DTA judging panel will recognise those who work out of the limelight but whose contribution to the performing arts is considerable.
Design categories: POSTER DESIGN: Shirley Berko for Little Shop of Horrors, Noises Off and Wit; Sunshine Factory for Shear Madness and Stephen Woodroffe for Agnes of God. SOUND DESIGN: Ross Hatcher for Let’s hear it for the Boys and Sing it Sista; Megan Levy for Cinderella and Little Shop of Horrors and Gail Muir for Unforgettable. LIGHTING DESIGN: Dylan Heaton for Unforgettable, Tina le Roux for Little Shop of Horrors, Noises Off, Tree Boy and Wit, and Stephen Woodroffe for Let’s hear it for the Boys. COSTUME DESIGN: Terrence Bray for Little Shop of Horrors; Peter Court, Neil Stuart-Harris & Steven Stead for Cinderella; Kevin Ellis for Let’s hear it for the Boys; Dicky Longhurst for Unforgettable; Bradley Marshall for Sing it Sista and Steven Stead for Wit. SET DESIGN: Krijay Govender & Leeanda Reddy for Buckled; Greg King for Cinderella, Little Shop of Horrors, Noises Off and Wit; Dicky Longhurst for Unforgettable and Themi Venturas for Shear Madness.
New Performers: FEMALE: Londiwe Dhlomo for Blondes on Deck and Little Shop of Horrors; Shona Johnson for The Wheel; Samkelo Mkhize for Madame President Musical and Roxy Nel for Noises Off. MALE: Daniel Botha for Tree Boy; Thabani Mhlangu and Phumlani Mkhize - both for Native Blues; Farai Qwaze for Othello and Matthew Venturas for Master Harold and the Boys.
Children’s Theatre: SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Shona Johnson, Philile Ntimbane and Chloe Perling - all for The Wheel, and Marion Loudon and Shelley McLean - both for Cinderella. SUPPORTING ACTOR: No nominations. LEAD ACTRESS: Slindile Nodangala for Chasing Tales and Belinda Henwood and Janna Ramos-Violante – both for Cinderella. LEAD ACTOR: Sean de Klerk for Black Out and Bryan Hiles and Darren King – both for Cinderella. DIRECTOR: David Gouldie for Chasing Tales, Ellis Pearson for Black Out and Steven Stead for Cinderella. PRODUCTION: Black Out from Sue Clarence Promotions; Chasing Tales from The Playhouse Company, and Cinderella from KickstArt.
Musical Theatre & Music Revue / Music Compilation / Cabaret: CHOREOGRAPHY: Janine Bennewith for Little Shop of Horrors; Desire Davids for Unforgettable; Denya Maslen for Sing it Sista, and Alain Rijnvis for Let’s hear it for the Boys. PERFORMER (Music Revue / Music Compilation / Cabaret): Jonothan Didlick and Cavin Sewell – both for Let’s hear it for the Boys; Lauren Laing and Pumi Zondi – both for Sing it Sista; Shelley McLean for Bald and the Beautiful, and Carol Trench for Let’s Misbehave. SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Musical Theatre): Belinda Henwood and Pume Zondi – both for Little Shop of Horrors, and Lungile Mkhize for Madame President Musical. SUPPORTING ACTOR (Musical Theatre): Peter Court and Aaron McIlroy – both for Little Shop of Horrors, and Sandile Mchunu and Lucky Simayile – both for Madame President Musical
Further nominees in the categories of Musical Theatre & Music Revue / Music Compilation / Cabaret: LEAD ACTRESS (Musical Theatre): Lisa Bobbert for Little Shop of Horrors; Sindi Khuzwayo for The Living Legend, and Samkelo Mkhize for Madame President Musical. LEAD ACTOR (Musical Theatre): Bryan Hiles for Little Shop of Horrors. MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Henry Faca Kulu for Native Blues; Shelley McLean & Evan Roberts for Bald and the Beautiful and Little Shop of Horrors; Shem Mahabeer for Let’s hear it for the Boys and Sing it Sista, and Evan Roberts for Cinderella. DIRECTOR: Mark Hawkins for Unforgettable; Steven Stead for Little Shop of Horrors; Charon Williams-Ros for Let’s hear it for the Boys and Sing it Sista. MUSIC REVUE PRODUCTION: Bald and the Beautiful from Liesl Coppin, Shelley McLean, Evan Roberts, Melanie Roberts; Let’s hear it for the Boys and Sing it Sista from Wayne R Scott; Let’s Misbehave from Sue Clarence Promotions; Native Blues from TheatreBIZ, and Unforgettable from The Playhouse Company. MUSICAL THEATRE PRODUCTION: Little Shop of Horrors from KickstArt and Madame President Musical from K-Cap.
Drama / Comedy: SCRIPT: Neil Coppen for Tree Boy; Dylan Edy, Liam Magner, Clinton Small, Jacobus van Heerden and Ben Voss - all for NATV’s Live Christmas Show; Krijay Govender and Leeanda Reddy for Buckled; Henry Faca Kulu for Native Blues, and Ellis Pearson for Black Out. SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Olivia Borgen and Alison Cassels - both for Wit, and Belinda Henwood for Noises Off. SUPPORTING ACTOR: Neil Coppen and Jimmy Lithgow – both for Wit; Peter Court and Michael Gritten - both for Noises Off; Dhaveshan Govender for Shear Madness, and Iain Robinson for Othello. PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY BY A FEMALE: Lisa Bobbert, Liesl Coppin and Roxy Nel – all for Noises Off; Josette Eales for Sally and Marsha; Clare Mortimer and Daisy Spencer – both for Shear Madness and Leeanda Reddy for Buckled. PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY BY A MALE: Peter Court, Bryan Hiles, Ben Voss and Darren King – all for Noises Off; Marc Kay for Shear Madness; Liam Magner and Jacobus van Heerden – both for NATV’s Live Christmas Show, and Meren Reddy for Buckled. SOLO PERFORMANCE – no nominations.
The evening concludes with the most prestigious awards of the ceremony and nominations include: LEAD ACTRESS: Alison Cassels and Janna Ramos-Violante - both for Agnes of God; Ntando Cele for uThembalethu; Clare Mortimer for Shear Madness and Wit; Leeanda Reddy for Buckled, and Daisy Spencer for Shear Madness. LEAD ACTOR: Bryan Hiles, Darren King and Ben Voss - all for Noises Off; Marc Kay for Shear Madness; Liam Magner for NATV’s Live Christmas Show; Bheki Mkhwane for uThembalethu; Meren Reddy for Buckled, and Jacobus van Heerden for NATV’s Live Christmas Show. DIRECTOR: Krijay Govender for Buckled; Tamar Meskin for Sally and Marsha; Maurice Podbrey for uThembalethu; Steven Stead for Noises Off and Wit; Tanya van der Walt for Agnes of God; Themi Venturas for Shear Madness, and Ben Voss for NATV’s Live Christmas Show. PRODUCTION: Agnes of God from Fett Diva Productions; Noises Off and Wit from KickstArt; Shear Madness from TheatreBIZ, and uThembalethu from Mopo Productions.
Principal sponsors are media partner The Mercury, the Bartel Arts Trust, the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, Troubadour Productions, DarkHorse Productions, Black Coffee, Stuart Edwards & Company, Publicity Matters, Makulu Events, ClaviTech, artSMart and Sunshine Factory. Booking is at Computicket.
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