The Adelaide Critics Circle has announced the shortlist for its 24th Annual Awards in 2021. Following the decision to pause the awards in 2020 owing to the pandemic, the shortlisted productions include works presented in both 2020 and 2021. Drawn from a field of more than 70 nominations, the shortlist is:
Individual Award – Amateur or Community Theatre
Libby Drake, director - Blue Stockings (Red Phoenix Theatre)
Brant Eustice, director - The Laramie Project (Red Phoenix Theatre)
Martha Lott, actor - Grounded (Holden Street Theatres)
Ole Wiebkin, designer – body of work
Group Award – Amateur or Community Theatre
Patrick Livesey - DIяT
Red Phoenix Theatre - The Laramie Project
Wings2Fly Theatre – body of work
Individual Award – Professional Theatre
Anne Cawrse, composer – body of work and curator of the She Speaks mini-festival
Konstantin Shamray, pianist – Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Rory Walker, actor - Glengarry Glen Ross (Flying Penguin/Brink)
Group Award – Professional Theatre
Adelaide Festival 2021 – A Child Of Our Time
Australian Symphony Orchestra - She Speaks mini-festival
Flying Penguin Productions in association with Brink Productions - Glengarry Glen Ross
Gravity and Other Myths – body of work and especially The Pulse.
STARC Productions – Venus in Fur
Emerging Artist of the Year Award
Grace Carter, actor - Evita (Gilbert & Sullivan Society of SA)
Rhoda Sylvester, actor - Good People (Adelaide Repertory Theatre)
South Australian Playwrights Theatre – body of work
Independent Arts Foundation Award for Innovation
Hartstone-Kitney Productions - Black Box Live From Australia
State Theatre South Australia/ActNow Theatre - Decameron 2.0
Utter: Stories told by a ghost, a book and a room (Iran Sanadzadeh, Dylan Crismani, Cazna Brass, Sebastian Collen, and Derek Pascoe)
Visual Arts Award
The Visual Arts Award will be announced on the night.
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced on the night.
The 2021 Awards Ceremony will be held at the Holden Street Theatres, 34 Holden Street, Hindmarsh¸
on Monday 13 December. Owing to COVID-19 restrictions, attendance in 2021 is by invitation.