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CRITICS' AWARDS FOR THEATRE IN SCOTLAND
CATS AWARDS 2019
WINNERS & NOMINEES
The 2019 CATS winners were announced at the Tramway, Glasgow on Sunday 9 June. Special guest presenter was Giles Havergal, director, actor and artistic director of the Citizens Theatre (1969 - 2003).
Here are the winners and nominees for the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2019.
Image - Giles Havergal at the 2019 CATS Awards
Best Male Performance
Darrell D’Silva (Jay Conway)
Ulster American, Traverse Theatre Company
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
Lorn Macdonald (Declan)
Mouthpiece, Traverse Theatre Company in association with HighTide
Image © Lisa Capelli
Image © Lisa Capelli
John Michie (Fireman), The Mack
A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Òran Mór, presented in association with the Traverse Theatre
WINNER - Best Male Performance
John Michie played the role of the traumatised fire commander with a heart-wrenching dignity and subtlety. His performance conveyed with reverberative power the emotional reckoning of a stoical, west of Scotland man who, following the first fire at the Glasgow School of Art, is finally brought down by a career’s worth of trauma.
Image © Leslie Black
WINNER - Best Male Performance
John Michie played the role of the traumatised fire commander with a heart-wrenching dignity and subtlety. His performance conveyed with reverberative power the emotional reckoning of a stoical, west of Scotland man who, following the first fire at the Glasgow School of Art, is finally brought down by a career’s worth of trauma.
Image © Leslie Black
Grant O’Rourke (Two)
Ballyturk, Tron Theatre Company
Image © John Johnstone
Image © John Johnstone
Best Female Performance
Cora Bissett (Cora)
What Girls Are Made Of, Traverse Theatre Company and Raw Material in association with Regular Music
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
Jessica Hardwick (Roxane)
Cyrano de Bergerac, National Theatre of Scotland, Citizens Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh
Image © Tim Morozzo
Image © Tim Morozzo
Irene Macdougall (Kate Keller)
All My Sons, Dundee Rep Ensemble
Image © Tommy Ga Ken Wan
Image © Tommy Ga Ken Wan
Lucianne McEvoy (Ruth Davenport)
Ulster American, Traverse Theatre Company
WINNER - Best Female Performer
Lucianne McEvoy’s character thinks she’s written a career-making play. Turns out that neither the director nor the star have understood it all. In a bravura performance she goes from smiley and accommodating to, frankly, terrifying, as the suppressed rage of dealing with idiot men making assumptions based on their own prejudices comes spilling out.
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
WINNER - Best Female Performer
Lucianne McEvoy’s character thinks she’s written a career-making play. Turns out that neither the director nor the star have understood it all. In a bravura performance she goes from smiley and accommodating to, frankly, terrifying, as the suppressed rage of dealing with idiot men making assumptions based on their own prejudices comes spilling out.
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
Best Ensemble
Ballyturk
Tron Theatre Company
Image © John Johnstone
Image © John Johnstone
Lost At Sea
Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts and Morna Young
WINNER - Best Ensemble
Morna Young’s Lost at Sea is a requiem to the fishermen of the North-East who perished in the waves. Almost operatic in construction, the voices of the ensemble, individually and a chorus, create an unforgettable portrait of the hardships and heartbreak faced by the fishing community.
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
WINNER - Best Ensemble
Morna Young’s Lost at Sea is a requiem to the fishermen of the North-East who perished in the waves. Almost operatic in construction, the voices of the ensemble, individually and a chorus, create an unforgettable portrait of the hardships and heartbreak faced by the fishing community.
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
My Left Right Foot – The Musical
Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland
Image © Tommy Ga Ken Wan
Image © Tommy Ga Ken Wan
Square Go
Francesca Moody Productions in association with SEARED
Best Director
Andy Arnold
Ballyturk, Tron Theatre Company
Image © John Johnstone
Image © John Johnstone
Ian Brown
Lost at Sea, Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts and Morna Young
WINNER - Best Director
In his welcome return to Scotland, the former artistic director of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre brought out the musicality, communality and sense of the mythic in Morna Young’s play about Moray-coast fishermen and their families. Spare and precise, Brown’s staging moved like the ebb and flow of the North Sea itself.
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
WINNER - Best Director
In his welcome return to Scotland, the former artistic director of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre brought out the musicality, communality and sense of the mythic in Morna Young’s play about Moray-coast fishermen and their families. Spare and precise, Brown’s staging moved like the ebb and flow of the North Sea itself.
Image © Mihaela Bodlovic
Orla O’Loughlin
Mouthpiece, Traverse Theatre Company in association with HighTide
Image © Lisa Capelli
Image © Lisa Capelli
Robert Softley Gale
My Left Right Foot – The Musical, Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland
Image © Tommy Ga Ken Wan
Image © Tommy Ga Ken Wan