» Latest Awards: Results
CONGRATULATIONS to all 15 winners of the 2010 Latest Awards, announced at a ceremony at Latest Musicbar (sponsored by new local wine merchants tengreenbottles) on Monday night. Latest 7 reviewed 165 shows across the Brighton Festival and Fringe, and we’re proud to have assembled our most comprehensive judging panel to date – one which reflects the increasing number of media organisations giving Brighton their critical attention throughout May, and engages with the growing diversity of work on offer.
Latest 7 is the only organisation whose awards are decided by a panel from across the media, and we also took into account nearly 400 public nominations made via the Latest 7 website (shouts out to whoever nominated Michael ‘Atters’ Attree in every single category, including Best Female Performer and Best Venue).
Special mention should go to Brighton Festival’s guest curator Brian Eno, who embraced the role so fully he moved to our city for the month, chucking last minute installations into an already generous programme and rejuvenating the Festival for many. Hats off also to Festival performer Sue MacLaine, who was longlisted in the Outstanding Contrubution To The Festival category for her extra-curricular signing of events such as This Is Acapella. Our reviewer praised, ‘her no-holds-barred renditions of songs you’d have thought were uninterpretable!’
One of our runners up in that final category might need some explanation, so here’s Total Theatre’s Dorothy Max Prior: “Peter Chrisp goes to everything everywhere! Theatre, music, open houses… I swear he must be one of triplets, at least – there is no other explanation”. Peter’s nomination is symbolic of the crucial role played in all this by all of you – Brighton Festival and Fringe would be nothing without their audience.
Results 2010 Latest Awards
BEST MALE PERFORMER
Winner – Tim Crouch for I, Malvolio
Runners-up – Joe Bone for Bane II/Robert Cohen for The Trials
Of Harvey Matusow
BEST FEMALE PERFORMER
Winner – Rachel Blackman for Steal Compass, Drive North, Disappear
Runners-up – Philippa Stanton for The Diva In Me/Sarah Leaver for Memoirs Of A Hermaphrodite
BEST MUSIC EVENT
Winner – Apollo: This Is For All Mankind
Runner-up – Cholmondeleys & Featherstonehaughs: Dancing On Your Grave
BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC ACT
Winner – Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra: ‘Mass In B Minor’
Runners-up – Brighton Festival Chorus: Rachmaninov Vespers
BEST CABARET
Winner – Cabaret Whore (Sarah-Louise Young)
Runners-up – Frisky And Mannish/Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus
BEST THEATRE PERFORMANCE
Winner – Before I Sleep
Runners-up – Steal Compass, Drive North, Disappear
/The Importance Of Being Ernest
BEST COMEDY SHOW
Winner – Andy Thomas: Crimes Against Humanities Teachers
Runners-up – Stephen Grant: Facepalm/Kim Noble: Kim Noble Will Die
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT
Winner – Circolumbia for Urban
Runners-up – Compagnia Rodisio for Story Of A Family/
Daniel Veronese for Uncle Vanya and Women Dreamt Horses
BEST CHILDREN’S EVENT
Winner – Spoon Tree Productions: LalaLuna
Runners-up – Long Nose Puppets: Penguin/Justin Coe’s The Jumble Book
BEST LITERATURE/WORKSHOP EVENT
Winner – Grit Lit at Redroaster
Runners-up – Altered Egos at Iambic Arts Theatre/Martin Amis at Corn Exchange
BEST OUTDOOR EVENT
Winner – Wili Dorner: Bodies In Urban Spaces
Runners-up – No Fit State: Park Life/Fuel: Electric Hotel /Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
BEST VENUE
Winner – The Basement
Runners-up – Upstairs At Three And Ten/Laughing Horse at
The Temple and The Quadrant
MOST GROUNDBREAKING ACT
Winner – Hofesh Shechter Company for Political Mother
Runners-up – Rimini Protokoll for Best Before/Oneohone Theatre for 101
STAR OF THE FESTIVAL
Winner – dreamthinkspeak
Runners-up – Shirley Jaffe
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE FESTIVAL
Winner – Nicola Haydn (Otherplace Productions)
Runners-up – Peter Chrisp (audience member supreme)
/Alex Petty (Laughing Horse)
The judging panel: Andrea Fox and Guy Lloyd from Juice FM, the Brighton Visitor team, Matthew Cook and The Dome team, Melita Dennett of the BBC, James Ledward for G Scene, Paul Levy and the Fringe Review team, Dorothy Max Prior and the Total Theatre team, Richard Stamp and the Fringe Guru team, The Three Weeks team, Radio Reverb… and of course the Latest 7 team
June 1st, 2010 at 9:34 pm
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June 2nd, 2010 at 8:41 pm
[...] But we were flabbergasted when the event was nominated for… and then won Best Literature Event at the Latest 7 Brighton Festival awards. [...]
May 9th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
And I touhhgt I was the sensible one. Thanks for setting me straight.