Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland

The annual 2009 CATS awards are will be presented in a ceremony at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh on the evening of Sunday 14 June.

Nominations

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

• Andy Clark, Darren, The Ching Room, A Play, a Pie and a Pint
• Billy Mack, Morris Magellan, The Sound of My Voice, Citizens' Theatre
• Billy Seymour, schoolboy, Pornography, Traverse Theatre/Birmingham Rep
• Matthew Zajac, The Tailor of Inverness, Dogstar Theatre

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

• Cora Bissett, Helena, Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
• Irene MacDougall, Martha, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dundee Rep
• Gabriel Quigley, Oracle and Mae, Bliss/Mud, Tron Theatre
• Gerda Stevenson, The Lasses, O', Rowan Tree Theatre

BEST DIRECTOR:

• James Brining, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dundee Rep
• David Leddy, Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens' Theatre
• Matthew Lenton, Interiors,
  Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile
  di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and
  Tron Theatre
• Jemima Levick, Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep

BEST ENSEMBLE:

• Architecting, The TEAM/National Theatre of Scotland
• Cockroach, Traverse Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland
• The Drawer Boy, Tron Theatre
• Interiors, Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile
  di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and
  Tron Theatre

BEST NEW PLAY:

• David Leddy, Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens' Theatre
• David Greig/Gordon McIntyre, Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
• Sam Holcroft, Cockroach, Traverse Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland
• Simon Stephens, Pornography, Traverse Theatre/Birmingham Rep'

BEST PRODUCTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE:

• Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
• Liar, TAG/Sounds of Progress
• Peter Pan, Visible Fictions/Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis
• Rudolf, Andy Manley/MacRobert

BEST DESIGN:

• Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds (design), Simon Wilkinson (lighting), Anna Scatola (puppet maker), Slick, Vox Motus/Tron Theatre
• Stewart Laing, Les Parents Terribles, Dundee Rep
• Alex Lowde (set) and Chris Davey (lighting), Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
• Jason Southgate (set) and Graham Sutherland (lighting), The Sound of My Voice, Citizens' Theatre

BEST USE OF MUSIC AND SOUND:

• Seylan Baxter, Lillias Kinsman-Blake and Rachel Newton, The Lasses, O', Rowan Tree Theatre
• Paddy Cunneen, Waltz of the Cold Wind, A Play, a Pie and a Pint
• David Paul Jones and Zoey Van Goey, Dolls, Hush Productions/National Theatre of Scotland
• Gordon McIntyre, Midsummer, Traverse Theatre

BEST TECHNICAL PRESENTATION:

• 4.48 Psychosis, Sweetscar/Cumbernauld Theatre/Tramway
• Peeping at Bosch, Mischief La Bas/National Theatre of Scotland
• Slick, Vox Motus/Tron Theatre
• Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens' Theatre

BEST PRODUCTION:

• Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
• Interiors,
  Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile
  di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and
  Tron Theatre
• Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dundee Rep
• Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens' Theatre

Tickets

Tickets priced £15 (including entertainment, wine and light
refreshments), are available In person at 13/29 Nicolson Street,
Edinburgh EH8 9FT; by telephone on 0131 529 6000; and online via
www.eft.co.uk/book_tickets