Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards Winners: Peter Morgan’s ‘Patriots’ Wins Best New Play — Full List
deadline.comPeter Morgan (The Crown) was among the top winners at this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards with his latest production, Patriots, which took home the coveted Michael Billington Award for Best New Play.
Patriots is the first new play penned by Morgan in a decade. The production is billed as an “incisive study of Russian dissidence via Putin’s friend-turned-foe, Boris Berezovsky.” Deadline first broke news of the production, which opened at the London’s Almeida Theatre in July with Tom Hollander in the lead role.
Elsewhere, Jodie Comer – who has swept the theatre awards circuit this year for her performance in Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie – was pipped to the Best Actress gong by Patsy Ferran, who won for A Streetcar Named Desire.
Ferran joined the production four days before the first performance, where she stars alongside Paul Mescal. The prize for Best Actor went to Hamilton alum Giles Terera for his performance in two productions: Othello at the National Theatre and Blues for an Alabama Sky.
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