Prestigous theatre awards are set to return with their first in-person occasion because the coronavirus pandemic.
Shortlists have been introduced for the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (Cats) which have a good time Scottish theatre and shall be introduced on the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, on the afternoon of September 11.
A brand new manufacturing of Pedro Calderon’s Life Is A Dream tops the shortlists with six award nominations.
Actors Lorn Macdonald and Alison Peebles are shortlisted in the most effective female and male efficiency classes; Wils Wilson is up for the most effective director award, the solid is recognised in a Greatest Ensemble shortlisting, and Georgia McGuinness and Alex Berry (set and costumes) and Kai Fischer (Lighting) are nominated for Greatest Design.
The manufacturing set within the seventeenth century can be nominated for finest manufacturing.
Pitlochry Pageant Theatre and Horsecross in Perth, in the meantime, each obtain 5 nominations and Glasgow’s Tron Theatre has secured 4.
The play Candy FA, which charts the lengthy battle that girls’s soccer has had, has made shortlists in two classes: finest ensemble and finest technical. It was staged at Hearts’ Tynecastle Stadium in Edinburgh.
Scotland’s largest Shakespeare competition, Bard within the Botanics, has additionally secured 4 nominations.
Joyce McMillan, Cats co-convener, mentioned: “The previous couple of years have been vastly difficult for reside arts and so it has been an important pleasure to see Scottish theatre returning with such vitality and with a lot sensible new work.
“Over 100 new productions have been staged since final summer season, in addition to many revivals, illustrating the deep-felt want throughout the sector to return to reside efficiency as quickly because it grew to become attainable.
“The calibre of theatre which continues to be created throughout Scotland is mirrored within the breadth and variety of the productions and corporations on this 12 months’s shortlists with venues starting from Mull’s 60-seater theatre to Glasgow’s Kibble Palace and Coronary heart of Midlothian’s Tyncastle Park stadium.”
Mark Brown, Cats co-convener mentioned the event shall be “notably particular”.
He added: “This 12 months’s Cats awards ceremony needs to be a very special day as we shall be celebrating, not solely the work of the sensible nominees and winners, but additionally the outstanding means by which Scotland’s theatre artists have come again from the various challenges and privations of the Covid pandemic.
“The critics, like everybody within the Scottish theatre viewers, I’m positive, have been vastly impressed and inspired by each the range and the standard of the work that has been delivered to the nation’s phases as we've got emerged from the general public well being disaster.”