CHESHIRE THEATRE  GUILD AWARDS 2001/02

Poster Award

Sandbach Players for Entertaining Mr Sloane
 
Barry Phillips Award for Most Promising Youngster (male)
Matthew Gratton for Shout in Sleeping Beauty Bollington Festival  Players
Rafe Clarke for Boy in Tree Houses Nantwich Players
Daniel Ashley for Charteris in Forty Years On Nantwich Players
Stephen Turner for Montgomery in Darling Buds of May Harlequin Players
Winner
Matthew Gratton for Shout in Sleeping Beauty Bollington Festival Players
 
Rebecca Seymour Award for Most Promising Youngster (female)
Chrissy Leahy for Aurora in Sleeping Beauty Bollington Festival Players
Jillian Wildgoose for Steel in Thursday’s Child Nantwich Youth
Maeve McLenaghan for Gloria in Wait Until Dark Harlequin Players
Rosie Hoskins for Primrose in Darling Buds of May Harlequin Players
Winner
Jillian Wildgoose for Steel in Thursday’s Child Nantwich Youth
 
Geoffrey Croxford Cup for Best Supporting Actor
Dick Burton for Dr Gortler in I have Been Here Before Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society
Steve Donnelly for Malvolio in Twelfth Night Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society
Don Hirst for Costas in Shirley Valentine Harlequin Players
Sid Smith for Old Man in Visiting Hour Sandbach Players
Richard Broadbent for Bernard in Seasons Greeting Stockton Heath Methodist Dramatic Society
Bryan Lambert for Maitre Jaques in The Miser Chester Theatre Club
Winner
Steve Donnelly for Malvolio in Twelfth Night Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society
 
Geoffrey Kellett Cup for Best Supporting Actress
Lucinda Whale for Annelle in Steele Magnolias The Club Theatre
Jenny Hindmarch for Three Women in Shirley Valentine Harlequin Players
Liz Whitby for Frosine in The Miser Chester Theatre Club
Avril Allman for Annie in Living Together Wistaston Community Players
Barbara Whalley for Old Magda in Tree Houses Nantwich Players
Amy Dean for Mariette in Darling Buds of May Harlequin Players
Winner
Liz Whitby for Frosine in The Miser Chester Theatre Club
 
James Tait Award for Best Production with Musical Content
Thursday’s Child MD Julian Whittaker  Nantwich Youth
Escape MD James Grimsey  Impact Theatre Company
Sleeping Beauty MD Della Russell  Bollington Festival Players
Ali Baba MD Owen LeBlanc  Wilmslow Guild
Nunsense MD Ewan Jones  Davenham & Sandiway Players
Winner
Escape MD James Grimsey  Impact Theatre Company
 
Margaret Thomas Salver for Best Costume
Sleeping Beauty  Bollington Festival Players
Toad of Toad Hall  The Club Theatre
Ali Baba  Wilmslow Guild
The Miser  Chester Theatre Club
She Stoops to Conquer  Nantwich Players
The Clearing  Harlequin Players
Winner
Toad of Toad Hall  The Club Theatre
 
Ron Gleave Shield for Best Lighting and Sound
The Clearing  Harlequin Players
Quartet  Tudor Players
Second From Last in the Sack Race Nantwich Player
Neville’s Island  Culcheth Players
Escape  Impact Theatre Company
Winner
The Clearing  Harlequin Players
 
Bramhall Cup for Best Presentation
Steel Magnolias  The Club Theatre
Steel Magnolias  Playmakers Stockton Heath
Visiting Hour  Sandbach Players
Last in the Food Chain  Harlequin Players
Arsenic and Old Lace  Nantwich Players

Don’t Dress for Dinner

Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society
Winner
Don’t Dress for Dinner  Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society
 
Vicky Lane Trophy for Dramatic Achievement (use of space / auditorium)
Something to Hide  Byley Village Players
Albert Make Us Laugh  Moulton Drama Group
Time and Time Again  Wilmslow Guild
An Inspector Calls  Sale Nomads
Winner
Albert Make Us Laugh  Moulton Drama Group
 
Adjudicators Award for Theatrical Adventure
Antigone  Harlequin Players
The Clearing  Harlequin Players
My Mother Said I Never Should  Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society
The Devil at Midnight  The Club Theatre
Tree Houses  Nantwich Players
Shadowlands  Stockton Heath Methodist Dramatic Society
Winner
The Devil at Midnight  The Club Theatre
 
David Lane Cup for Best Actor

Joe Critchley for Gordon in Neville’s Island 

Culcheth Players

Bill Smith for Stephen Febble in The Weekend 

Chester Theatre Club
John Shaw for Squire Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer  Nantwich Players
Gerry Card for Norman Thayler in On Golden Pond  Sale Nomads
Tony Kemp for Harpagon in The Miser  Chester Theatre Club
Keith Hogwood for Pop in Darling Buds of May  Harlequin Players
Winner
Bill Smith Stephen for Febble in The Weekend  Chester Theatre Club
 
Allan Warburton Cup for Best Actress
Sue Curran for Shirley in Shirley Valentine  Harlequin Players
Amy Dean for Suzy in Wait Until Dark  Harlequin Players
Gillean Thomas for Mum in The Anniversary  The Club Theatre
Meg Cooper for Cecily Robson in Quartet  Tudor Players
Helen Gresty for Sister Regina in Nunsense  Davenham & Sandiway Players
Susan Woodward for Eva in Tree Houses  Nantwich Players
Winner
Meg Cooper for Cecily Robson in Quartet  Tudor Players
 
Best Director
John Powell for The Anniversary  The Club Theatre
Sylvia Bradley for The Miser  Chester Theatre Club
Terry Chandler for Stepping Out  Sale Nomads
Thelma Eastwood-Angus for She Stoops to Conquer  Nantwich Players
Chris Finney Wait Until Dark  Harlequin Players
Gordon Hamlin Twelfth Night  Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society
Winner
Thelma Eastwood- Angus She Stoops to Conquer  Nantwich Players
 

Ron Arscott Shield for Runner Up and 
Manchester Evening News Salver for Best Overall Production

Wait Until Dark  Harlequin Players
Last in The Food Chain  Harlequin Players
Forty Years On  Nantwich Players
She Stoops to Conquer  Nantwich Players
The Miser Chester Theatre Club
Quartet  Tudor Players
I Have Been Here Before  Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society
Winner
Ron Arscott Shield for Runner Up
Wait Until Dark  Harlequin Players
Manchester Evening News Salver for Best Overall Production
She Stoops to Conquer  Nantwich Players

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