Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival | |
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Awarded for | Best Revival |
Location | England |
Presented by | Society of London Theatre |
First awarded | 1991 |
Currently held by | Vanya (2024) |
Website | officiallondontheatre |
The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.
This award was introduced in 1991, presented through to 1995, set aside from 1996 to 2002, and reintroduced for the 2003 Olivier Awards.
Winners and nominees
1990s
Year | Play | Writer |
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1991 | ||
Pericles | William Shakespeare | |
Accidental Death of an Anarchist | Dario Fo | |
Kean | Jean-Paul Sartre, Alexandre Dumas, père and Frank Hauser | |
The Wild Duck | Henrik Ibsen | |
1992 | ||
Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen | |
Faith Healer | Brian Friel | |
The Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare | |
Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov | |
1993 | ||
An Inspector Calls | J.B. Priestley | |
Heartbreak House | George Bernard Shaw | |
Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 | William Shakespeare | |
No Man's Land | Harold Pinter | |
1994 | ||
Machinal | Sophie Treadwell | |
Medea | Euripides and Alistair Elliot | |
The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Rattigan | |
The Winter's Tale | William Shakespeare | |
1995 | ||
As You Like It | William Shakespeare | |
Le Cid | Pierre Corneille and Ranjit Bolt | |
Les Parents terribles | Jean Cocteau and Jeremy Sams | |
Sweet Bird of Youth | Tennessee Williams |
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Play | Writer | |
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2020 | |||
Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | ||
Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | ||
Present Laughter | Noël Coward | ||
Rosmersholm | Henrik Ibsen | ||
2021 | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic[A] | ||
2022[A] | |||
Constellations | Nick Payne | ||
A Number | Caryl Churchill | ||
The Normal Heart | Larry Kramer | ||
The Tragedy of Macbeth | William Shakespeare | ||
2023 | |||
A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | ||
The Crucible | Arthur Miller | ||
Good | Cecil Philip Taylor | ||
Jerusalem | Jez Butterworth | ||
2024 | |||
Vanya | Anton Chekhov; adapted by Simon Stephens | ||
The Effect | Lucy Prebble | ||
Macbeth | William Shakespeare | ||
Shirley Valentine | Willy Russell |
- ^ a b Due to late March 2020[1] to late July 2021[2] closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022[3]
Multiple awards and nominations
Awards
2 awards
Nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
- Death of a Salesman
- Hedda Gabler
- King Lear
- Twelfth Night
- Uncle Vanya
- A View from the Bridge
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The Winter's Tale
See also
References
- ^ Johnson, The Rt Hon Boris, MP (2020-03-23). Prime Minister's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 23 March 2020 [transcript] (Speech). Prime Minister's Televised Speech to the United Kingdom. www.gov.uk. London, UK. Archived from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction — you must stay at home.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ McPhee, Ryan (2021-06-14). "U.K. Postpones Reopening Roadmap; West End Theatres Will No Longer Reopen in Full in June". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
Step 4 of the roadmap will allow productions to play without capacity restrictions. June 21 was the goal; now, the government is eyeing July 19.
- ^ Thomas, Sophie (2022-03-08). "Everything you need to know about the Olivier Awards". londontheatre.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
Any new production that opened between 19 Feb. 2020 to 22 Feb. 2022 are eligible for categories in the 2022 Olivier Awards. With two years worth of shows set for honours in one year's ceremony, the 2022 Olivier Awards will prove tougher competition than before.
- London Theatre Guide (2008). "The Laurence Olivier Awards: Full List of Winners, 1976-2008" (.PDF). 1976-2008. The Society of London Theatre. p. 20. Retrieved 2008-08-30.
External links
- Official website
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- Actor of the Year in a New Play
- Actress of the Year in a New Play
- Actor of the Year in a Revival
- Actress of the Year in a Revival
- Comedy Performance
- Performance in a Musical
- Supporting Artist of the Year
- Performance in a Supporting Role
- Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical
- Newcomer in a Play
- Most Promising Performer
- Company Performance
- Director of a Play
- Director of a Musical
- Most Promising Playwright
- Achievement in a Musical
- Audience Award