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1993 Laurence Olivier Awards

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1993 Laurence Olivier Awards
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The 1993 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 1993 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre.

Winners and nominees

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Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre.[1]

Play of the Year Best New Musical
Best Revival of a Play or Comedy Best Musical Revival
Best Comedy Best Entertainment
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Actor in a Musical Best Actress in a Musical
Best Comedy Performance
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Supporting Performance in a Musical
Best Director of a Play Best Director of a Musical
Best Theatre Choreographer
Best Set Designer Best Costume Designer
Best Lighting Designer
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Best New Dance Production
Outstanding Achievement in Opera Outstanding New Opera Production
Award for Outstanding Achievement
  • Medea, No Man's Land, The Deep Blue Sea and The Rules of the Game for riding the crest of its own wave with great style and giving glamour a good name on the fringe – Almeida
    • Kenneth Branagh for an ebullient performance (his best on the stage for years) in Hamlet – RSC at the Barbican
    • Eddie Izzard an accomplished and original comedian, the bloke in a frock, who held audiences spellbound for two-and-a-half-hours in his West End debut – Ambassadors
    • Robert Lepage for an astonishing solo trip on drugs, jazz and Jean Cocteau with a technologically refined use of film and acrobatics in Needles and Opium – National Theatre Cottesloe
    • John Osborne for refusing to lie down and completing the circle begun by Look Back in Anger with the energetic update on Jimmy Porter with Déjà Vu – Comedy
    • Billy Roche for his irresistible tapestry of slowly changing Irish life in the pool hall, the betting shop and the belfry in The Wexford Trilogy – Bush
Society Special Award

Productions with multiple nominations and awards

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The following 25 productions, including one ballet and four operas, received multiple nominations:

The following six productions received multiple awards:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Olivier Winners 1993". officiallondontheatre.com. Society of London Theatre. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
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