The Helpmann Award for Best Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001. The award is for a production of a play, which may be a new work or a revival of an existing work. This is a list of winners and nominations for the Helpmann Award for Best Play.
Winners and nominees
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2000s Year Title Production compan(y/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
2010s Year Title Production compan(y/ies) 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 2017(17th) The Drover's Wife Belvoir Jasper Jones Melbourne Theatre Company Once in Royal David's City Queensland Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company Things I Know To Be True State Theatre Company of South Australia and Frantic Assembly 2018(18th) The Children Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company The Irresistible Side Pony Productions and The Last Great Hunt The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man Malthouse Theatre Black is the New White Sydney Theatre Company The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Sydney Theatre Company Laser Beak Man Brisbane Festival, La Boite Theatre Company and Dead Puppet Society in association with PowerArts 2019(19th) Counting and Cracking Belvoir and Co-CuriousBlackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of DeathSydney Theatre Company and Malthouse TheatreThe Harp in the South: Part One and Part TwoSydney Theatre CompanySong for a Weary ThroatRawcusHarry Potter and the Cursed Child (Parts One and Two)Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, and Michael CasselThe Second Woman Nat Randall and Anna Breckon and Performing Lines
See also Helpmann Awards
References
External links The official Helpmann Awards website