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Awards And Nominations Abound In HotHouse’s 10th Year
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HotHouse Theatre – in its 10th anniversary year – is proud to announce a number of awards and nominations for company productions and plays. In the last month no less than four plays have been nominated for or received awards, and more good news is anticipated.
The Victorian Arts Centre today announced that HotHouse Theatre’s commission The Glory by Melbourne writer Ross Mueller has won the Wal Cherry Play of the Year for 2006. The Glory is an evocative, thought-provoking, contemporary play about a soldier’s funeral and ultimately examines the compelling question of how we remember our dead.
‘This is an important play for me,‘ Ross says. ‘I am thrilled that the committee has recognised it . . . I am honoured by this professional acknowledgment and hope that it gives the play an opportunity to progress to production. Thanks to HotHouse who commissioned it and nominated it. Thank you very much.’
Ross, who was commissioned to write The Glory in 2005, is well known to HotHouse subscribers for his play The Ghost Writer, which played a successful season earlier this year.
The Wal Cherry is one of the most prestigious awards in Australian playwriting, with the winner receiving $5,000 and a rehearsed reading with professional direction and actors, which will take place at the Arts Centre on September 2.
This is the second time in 3 years that a HotHouse commission has won the award, with Patricia Cornelius’ challenging work Love, produced in 2005 at HotHouse and Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, winning in 2003.
HotHouse Theatre’s new Artistic Manager Campion Decent is also among recent award nominees. His play Embers about the northeast bushfires of 2003, and already shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Play Award, has just been announced as a nominee for an AWGIE Award in the Community Theatre category. To be presented in Sydney on August 31, the Australian Writers' Guild's annual awards recognise excellence in screen, television, stage and radio writing.
A HotHouse Theatre commission, the coproduction with Sydney Theatre Company of Embers played a critically acclaimed season in Sydney and a sold-out season in Albury Wodonga before touring extensively through fire affected areas of Victoria in 2006.
Two more shows from the 2006 HotHouse season are in the running for the annual Helpmann Awards, which recognise distinguished artistic achievement and excellence in the many disciplines of Australia's vibrant live performance sectors.
The heart-warmingly hilarious HotHouse production of The Messiah is nominated in the Regional Touring category, and Jefferson Mays tour-de-force performance in I Am My Own Wife (a Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company and HotHouse Theatre co-production) in the Best Male Actor In A Play category. The Helpmann Awards will be announced on August 6.
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