Helpmann Award for Best Play
The Helpmann Award for Best Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001.[1] In the following list winners are listed first and marked in gold, in boldface, and the nominees are listed below with no highlight.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.
Year |
Title |
Production company(ies) |
2001 (1st) |
Life After George |
Melbourne Theatre Company |
'Art' |
Melbourne Theatre Company |
Jimmy and Pat Meet the Queen |
Deckchair Theatre |
The Small Poppies |
Company B Belvoir |
2002 (2nd) |
Cloudstreet |
Company B Belvoir and Black Swan Theatre |
Master Class |
International Concert Attractions |
The Tempest |
Melbourne Theatre Company |
Three Sisters |
Sydney Theatre Company |
2003 (3rd) |
Copenhagen |
Sydney Theatre Company |
Soft |
Back to Back and Melbourne Festival |
The Comedy of Errors |
The Bell Shakespeare Company |
Waiting for Godot |
Company B Belvoir and Sydney Festival |
2004 (4th) |
Inheritance |
Melbourne Theatre Company |
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America - A Drama in 30 Scenes |
Playbox Theatre |
The Servant of Two Masters |
The Bell Shakespeare Company |
Frozen |
Melbourne Theatre Company |
2005 (5th) |
The Sapphires |
Melbourne Theatre Company |
Twelve Angry Men |
Arts Projects Australia and Adrian Bohm |
Hedda Gabler |
Sydney Theatre Company |
Three Furies |
Sydney Festival |
2006 (6th) |
Stuff Happens |
Company B Belvoir and Newtheatricals |
Away |
Queensland Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company |
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? |
State Theatre Company of South Australia |
Le Dernier Caravansérail |
Melbourne International Arts Festival and Théâtre du Soleil |
2007 (7th) |
The Lost Echo |
Sydney Theatre Company |
Holding the Man |
Griffin Theatre Company |
Parramatta Girls |
Company B Belvoir |
The Season At Sarsaparilla |
Sydney Theatre Company |
2008 (8th) |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Company B Belvoir |
Black Watch |
National Theatre of Scotland, Sydney Festival and Perth International Arts Festival |
When The Rain Stops Falling |
Brink Productions |
Toy Symphony |
Company B Belvoir |
2009 (9th) |
War of the Roses |
Sydney Theatre Company |
Women of Troy |
Sydney Theatre Company |
Ivanov |
Katona Jozsef Theatre and Sydney Festival |
Gatz |
Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Powerhouse |
2010 (10th) |
Richard III |
Melbourne Theatre Company |
August: Osage County |
Melbourne Theatre Company |
Happy Days |
Malthouse Theatre |
The Book of Everything |
Company B Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image |
2011 (11th) |
The Wild Duck |
Belvoir |
The Diary of a Madman |
Belvoir |
Uncle Vanya |
Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare |
Do not go gentle |
fortyfivedownstairs |
2012 (12th) |
Ganesh Versus the Third Reich |
Back to Back Theatre, Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Festival |
Neighbourhood Watch |
Belvoir |
The Boys |
Griffin Theatre Company and Sydney Festival |
The Importance of Being Earnest |
Melbourne Theatre Company |
2013 (13th) |
The Secret River |
Sydney Theatre Company, The Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Sydney Festival, The Centenary of Canberra, Perth International Arts Festival |
Medea |
Belvoir and Australian Theatre for Young People |
Death of a Salesman |
Belvoir |
Hedda Gabler |
State Theatre Company of South Australia |
2014 (14th) |
Angels in America |
Belvoir |
Roman Tragedies |
Toneelgroep Amsterdam presented by Adelaide Festival in association with Adelaide Festival Centre |
The Shadow King |
Malthouse Theatre in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals (Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, Melbourne Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and Sydney Festival) |
Waiting for Godot |
Sydney Theatre Company |
2015 (15th) |
The Glass Menagerie |
Belvoir |
Calpurnia Descending |
Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company |
Suddenly Last Summer |
Sydney Theatre Company |
Endgame |
Sydney Theatre Company |
2016 (16th) |
The Bleeding Tree |
Griffin Theatre Company |
North by Northwest |
Melbourne Theatre Company and Kay + McLean Productions by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures |
Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster |
Performing Lines and Nicola Gunn |
Prize Fighter |
La Boite Theatre Company and Brisbane Festival |
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