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Jude Law and Rachel Weisz win critics’ awards for West End runs
Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent26 Jan 2010
Jude Law and Rachel Weisz were honoured today for their dazzling returns to the London stage.
Awards: Jude Law and Rachel Weisz
Law, 37, won the critics' award for best Shakespearean performance for Hamlet as part of the Donmar's season in the West End — a year after David Tennant won the award for the same play.
Weisz, 39, was named best actress for Blanche Dubois in another Donmar production, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire.
Mark Shenton, chairman of the Theatre Critics' Circle which votes for the awards, said: “Celebrity casting is viewed a little suspiciously, but Jude Law and Rachel Weisz proved they can still cut it.”
The Royal Court's Jerusalem star Mark Rylance was named best actor and writer Jez Butterworth honoured for best new play. Rupert Goold won best director for Enron.
The 2009 awards were being presented at the Prince of Wales Theatre today.
Reader views (1)
I saw the Donmar's production of 'Streetcar' and I cannot understand why Ms Weisz keeps winning awards for her performance. She didn't convince as a fading beauty (she looked very unfaded to me) and her accent wobbled all over the US.
I thought Gillian Anderson's turn in the earlier Donmar Ibsen was much more impressive.
- Addicted To Theatre, London, 12/02/2010 13:21
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