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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
See also
References
External links
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