3xperimentia: Live Cut was last night awarded the IAF Award for Innovation at the Adelaide Critics Circle Awards at the Arts Theatre.
Accepting the award, Artistic Director Amanda Phillips spoke of the committment of the team and artists to the project long-term, and thanked the critics and audeiences of Adelaide for their support.
from The Advertiser by Arts Editor, Patrick MacDonald
- ACColades Lifetime Acheivement award winner Harold Minear (centre) with David Mealor and Amanda Phillips
VETERAN director, playwright, actor and lyricist Harold Minear last night won the Adelaide Critics Circle’s lifetime achievement award for his multi-talented services to amateur theatre.
Brink Productions’ The Hypochondriac, David Mealor from Flying Penguin Productions and emerging theatre director Corey McMahon were also among winners of the 2009 Adelaide Critics Circle Awards at the Arts Theatre. Mr Minear had been immersed in performing arts for most of his adult life and, at 81, was still working in the theatre, said Adelaide Critics Circle chair and The Advertiser theatre critic Samela Harris.
“He has worked a day job as a leading advertising man and a night job as a director, actor, playwright, lyricist and, significantly, a writer of revue,” she said. Mr Minear was in the first production in the Arts Theatre, Romanoff and Juliet, in 1963. He also has directed productions for most of the non-professional theatre companies of Adelaide and been a guiding light to the popular St Jude’s Players at Brighton.
The Adelaide Critics Circle Awards – also known as the ACColades – are decided by a body of 30 leading Adelaide theatre, music and art critics. Flying Penguins Productions director David Mealor won the Individual Award for its play True West. Brink Productions won the Group Award with its adaptation of Moliere’s 300-year-old French comedy The Hypochondriac. The Emerging Artist Award went to theatre director Corey McMahon. 3xperimentia: Live Cut won the Independent Arts Foundation award for innovation.
THE WINNERS ARE . . .
Adelaide Critics Circle Awards 2009Lifetime Achievement: Harold Minear, theatre director, playwright, actor and lyricist.
Individual Award: David Mealor, director, for True West (Flying Penguin Productions).
Group Award: Brink Productions for The Hypochondriac.
Emerging Artist: Corey McMahon, director, for Osama the Hero and The Under Room (five.point.one productions).
IAF Award for Innovation: 3xperimentia: Live Cut by Amanda Phillips and Alexander Waite Mitchell (Felicity Arts).
Emerging Visual Artist: Morgan Allender
Amateur Theatre – Individual: Brant Eustice in Oleanna (Adelaide University Theatre Guild).
Amateur Theatre – Group: Mixed Salad Productions for The History Boys.