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1984 Laurence Olivier Awards
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Edition of London theatre awards
April 2022
1984 Laurence Olivier Awards 8 December 1984 Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London BBC Television Olivier Awards 1983 1985
The 1984 Laurence Olivier Awards were presented by the Society of London Theatre on 8 December 1984 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, celebrating excellence in West End theatre.Theatre - Laurence Olivier Awards - Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London 1984-12-08 PA Images Getty Images https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/ian-mckellen-and-vanessa-redgrave-who-were-named-actor-and-news-photo/838747890?adppopup=true 2022-05-10 (please note the image is copyright, but this ref does not add the image to Wikipedia, just provides link to reliable URL source confirming the date of the 1984 Laurence Olivier Awards) It was broadcast by BBC Television,Laurence Olivier Awards 1984 1984 British Film Institute https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b737eea01 https://web.archive.org/web/20220511005048/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b737eea01 dead 11 May 2022 2022-05-10 Transmission Company: BBC Television though the broadcast date and specific BBC station is not availablethe 2003 Oliviers, for example, aired on BBC Two the evening after the live event.Olivier Awards 2003 Winners & Nominations 2003 officiallondontheatre.com Society of London Theatre http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/awards/2003 2022-05-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20040204141314/http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/awards/2003 2004-02-04 dead
After the first eight years (1976–1983) as the Society of West End Theatre Awards, these were the first awards to be held after Laurence Olivier consented to the awards being renamed in his honour.
Winners and nominees
Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre.Olivier Winners 1984 officiallondontheatre.com Society of London Theatre https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-1984/ 2022-05-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20180318054319/https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-1984/ 2018-03-18 live
Play of the Year Musical of the Year Benefactors by Michael Frayn – Vaudeville
Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard – National Theatre Cottesloe
Poppie Nongena by Elsa Joubert and Sandra Kotze, adapted by Hilary Blecher – Donmar Warehouse
Rat in the Skull by Ron Hutchinson – Royal Court 42nd Street – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Pump Boys and Dinettes – Piccadilly
Starlight Express – Apollo Victoria
The Hired Man – Astoria Comedy of the Year Up 'n' Under by John Godber – Donmar Warehouse
Gymslip Vicar by Cliff Hanger – Donmar Warehouse
Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn – Ambassadors
Two into One by Ray Cooney – Shaftesbury Actor of the Year in a New Play Actress of the Year in a New Play Brian Cox as Detective Inspector Nelson in Rat in the Skull – Royal Court
Ian Charleson as Eddie in Fool for Love – National Theatre Cottesloe
John Kani as Willie in Master Harold and the Boys – National Theatre Cottesloe
Michael Pennington as Strider in Strider: The Story of a Horse – National Theatre Cottesloe Thuli Dumakude as Poppie Nongena in Poppie Nongena – Donmar Warehouse
Brenda Blethyn as Sheila in Benefactors – Vaudeville
Julie Covington as Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot in Tom and Viv – Royal Court
Julie Walters as May in Fool for Love – National Theatre Cottesloe Actor of the Year in a Revival Actress of the Year in a Revival Ian McKellen as Mikhail Platonov in Wild Honey – National Theatre Lyttelton
Miles Anderson as Sigismund in Life Is a Dream – RSC at The Pit
Emrys James as Sir Giles Overreach in A New Way to Pay Old Debts – RSC at the Barbican Pit
Peter McEnery as Baron De Laubardemont in The Devils – RSC at the Barbican Pit Vanessa Redgrave as Miss Tina in The Aspern Papers – Theatre Royal Haymarket
Glenda Jackson as Nina Leeds in Strange Interlude – Duke of York's
Juliet Stevenson as Isabella in Measure for Measure – RSC at the Barbican
Zoë Wanamaker as Viola in Twelfth Night – RSC at the Barbican Actor of the Year in a Musical Actress of the Year in a Musical Paul Clarkson as John Tallentire in The Hired Man – Astoria
Tim Flavin as Phil "Junior" Dolan III in On Your Toes – Palace
David Kernan as The Lord Chancellor in The Ratepayers' Iolanthe – Phoenix
Lon Satton as Rambling Poppa McCoy in Starlight Express – Apollo Victoria Natalia Makarova as Vera Barnova in On Your Toes – Palace
Julia Hills as Emily Tallentire in The Hired Man – Astoria
Clare Leach as Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Sheila White as Belle Poitrine in Little Me – Prince of Wales Comedy Performance of the Year Maureen Lipman as Miss Skillon in See How They Run – Shaftesbury
Lavinia Bertram as Various in Intimate Exchanges – Ambassadors
Leonard Rossiter as Inspector Truscott in Loot – Ambassadors
Michael Williams as George in Two into One – Shaftesbury Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role Edward Petherbridge as Charles Marsden in Strange Interlude – Duke of York's
Ramolao Makhene as Sam in Master Harold and the Boys – National Theatre Cottesloe
Richard O'Callaghan as Feste in Twelfth Night – RSC at the Barbican
Timothy Spall Dauphin Charles in Saint Joan – National Theatre Olivier Marcia Warren as Vera in Stepping Out – Duke of York's
Clare Higgins as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire – Mermaid
Sophia Mgcina as Poppie's Mother in Poppie Nongena – RSC at the Barbican Pit
Zoë Wanamaker as Kitty Duval in The Time of Your Life – Lyric Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre Tim Flavin as Phil "Junior" Dolan III in On Your Toes – Palace
Hilary Blecher, Elsa Joubert and Sandra Kotze for adapting, conceiving and directing Poppie Nongena – Donmar Warehouse
Henry Goodman as Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors – RSC at the Barbican
Clare Leach as Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street – Theatre Royal Drury Lane Director of the Year Christopher Morahan for Wild Honey – National Theatre Lyttelton
John Barton for Life Is a Dream – RSC at the Barbican Pit
Michael Blakemore for Benefactors – Vaudeville
Adrian Noble for The Comedy of Errors – RSC at the Barbican Designer of the Year John Gunter for Wild Honey – National Theatre Lyttelton
Voytek Dolinski and Michael Levine for Strange Interlude – Duke of York's
John Napier for Starlight Express – Apollo Victoria
Carl Toms for The Aspern Papers – Theatre Royal Haymarket Outstanding Achievement of the Year in a Musical Ned Sherrin for conceiving The Ratepayers' Iolanthe – Phoenix
Howard Goodall for scoring The Hired Man – Astoria
John Napier for set designing Starlight Express – Apollo Victoria
Starlight Express for the overall impact of the production – Apollo Victoria Outstanding Individual Performance of the Year in a New Dance Production Outstanding New Dance Production of the Year David Bintley in Petrushka, Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet – Sadler's Wells
Wayne Eagling in Different Drummer, The Royal Ballet – Royal Opera House
Patricia Ruanne in Onegin, London Festival Ballet – London Coliseum Giselle, Dance Theatre of Harlem – London Coliseum
Consort Lessons, The Royal Ballet – Royal Opera House
Intimate Pages, Ballet Rambert – Sadler's Wells
Metamorphosis, Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet – Sadler's Wells Outstanding Individual Performance of the Year in a New Opera Production Outstanding New Opera Production of the Year Philip Langridge in Osud, English National Opera – London Coliseum
Edita Gruberová in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, The Royal Opera – Royal Opera House
Valerie Masterson in Mireille, English National Opera – London Coliseum
Rosalind Plowright in Sicilian Vespers, English National Opera – London Coliseum From the House of the Dead, Welsh National Opera
La Calisto, London Sinfonietta and Opera Factory
Sicilian Vespers, English National Opera – London Coliseum
The Rape of Lucretia, English National Opera – London Coliseum Society Special Award Arnold Goodman
Productions with multiple nominations and awards
The following 18 productions, including one opera, received multiple nominations:
5: Starlight Express
4: Poppie Nongena, The Hired Man
3: 42nd Street, Benefactors, Master Harold and the Boys, On Your Toes, Strange Interlude and Wild Honey
2: Fool for Love, Intimate Exchanges, Life Is a Dream, Rat in the Skull, Sicilian Vespers, The Aspern Papers, The Comedy of Errors, The Ratepayers' Iolanthe, Twelfth Night and Two into One
The following two productions received multiple awards:
3: Wild Honey
2: On Your Toes
See also
38th Tony Awards
References
External links
Previous Olivier Winners – 1984
Category:Laurence Olivier Awards ceremonies
Laurence Olivier Awards, 1984
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