Best Amateur Drama Production: Entertaining Mr Sloane
On a triumphant night for HumDrum, its staging of Joe Orton's black comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane at Havant Arts Centre took the award for drama production trophy.
James George, 46, says he inherited the production from another director but it was a play he already knew and admired.
'I was quite proud of the production because I had a cracking cast,' he says.
'I don't believe a director should stand at the front and tell everyone what to do. I see my role as being to encourage the cast to express their own ideas, and then collect them - and these actors were such creative people. I was really pleased with the result.'
The citation said the production was distinguished not only by four fine individual performances but by thoughtful, well-rounded direction, with a low-key manner and a simplicity in the 1960s setting that successfully heightened the ultimately shocking nature of the material.
Runner-up: Crave, by Bench Theatre at Havant Arts Centre.
This is an elusive work by the late Sarah Kane, with no clearly-defined characters, no stage directions and no punctuation, but director Damon Wakelin's decisions seemed effortlessly right without being obvious and a well-focused cast achieved a strangely lyrical and eloquent quality.
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