Award Season — “Chappy” Nominations Announced

As Hadyn right­ly points out, it is “Award Sea­son” and the Welling­ton the­atre com­mu­ni­ty is no excep­tion. The list of nom­i­na­tions for the annu­al Chap­man Tripp The­atre Awards was announced yes­ter­day and they demon­strate once again that live the­atre in Welling­ton is in very good shape.

The judges (crit­ics and review­ers from The Domin­ion Post, Cap­i­tal Times, The­atre­view, Salient and The Lumiere Read­er) all watched more than 90 pro­duc­tions dur­ing 2008 and the nom­i­na­tions are spread across 29 of those.

Lead­ing the pack, each with four nom­i­na­tions, is Apol­lo 13 (BATS), The Amer­i­can Pilot (Cir­ca) and The Lit­tle Dog Laughed (Down­stage) and the man of the hour would appear to be Kip Chap­man who co-direct­ed Apol­lo 13 and starred in the oth­er two, and is nom­i­nat­ed for a per­for­mance award for his work in Lit­tle Dog.

Of all the big nom­i­nees, only The Lit­tle Dog Laughed is still play­ing and the love­ly peo­ple at Down­stage are offer­ing the two sharpest Welling­ton­ista read­ers a dou­ble pass to tonight’s per­for­mance where you can see Kip strut his stuff with Sophie Ham­ble­ton (also nom­i­nat­ed), Richard Knowles and Renee Sheri­dan.

Send an email to cherie@downstage.co.nz and the first two entries get to go to tonight’s show.

The win­ners are announced on Sun­day 7th Decem­ber, at a glit­ter­ing occa­sion at the Welling­ton Town Hall.