The four-hour epic also won best new play and gave Dominic The production won three awards for bringing Gray’s dystopian vision to life, including best male performance for Sandy Grierson, as well as best design and best technical presentation. In another prize for the Glasgow theatre, Pauline Knowles won best female for her portrayal of Clytemnestra in Zinnie Harris’s This Restless House, which judges said was “a combination of bleak, poetic wit, erotic power and decisive brutality”. The Royal Lyceum’s adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot took best production, while the cast, which included Bill Paterson, left, and Brian Cox, right, won best ensemble PA:Press AssociationAn adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s seminal novel Lanark helped the Citizens Theatre gain six prizes at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland.

Source: The Times June 12, 2016 23:08 UTC