Best Supporting Actor in a Play/in a Musical


Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Andrew Scott, Cock
In a late challenge for this award, Andrew Scott's performance in Cock was truly astounding for me: I've rarely seen an actor so fully at ease with his lines that it feels genuinely like he's not even acting. In the strange cock-fighting-inspired pit, there was nowhere to hide, for actor nor audience, meaning we could bear witness to the considerable intensity of this performance down to the last tear on his cheek.

Honourable mentionSimon Paisley-Day, Entertaining Mr Sloane
The sight of the closetted Ed salivating over the leather-trouser clad Mr Sloane was a highlight of the year even back in February and Paisley-Day's chemistry with Dame-to-be Imelda Staunton made this play crackle with more twisted hilarity than even Joe Orton migth have dreamed of.

Mark Dexter, Inherit the Wind
Tom Goodman-Hill, Enron
Ethan Hawke, The Winter's Tale
Barnaby Kay, A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Oliver Thornton, Priscilla Queen of the DesertThreatening to steal the show with his every number, Thornton's camptastic Felicia is a sheer riot to watch. Perfectly toned, shockingly limber, obsessed with Kylie and armed with the most vicious of tongues, we also never lose sight of the boy beneath the make-up and his growing chemistry with Tony Sheldon's Bernadette is a thing of beauty to watch through its ups and downs.
Honourable mention
Daniel Crossley, Hello, Dolly!As is probably apparent by now, I loved practically everything about Hello, Dolly! And as Cornelius Hackl, Daniel Crossley was a delight. His learning to dance scenes were hysterical and Put On Your Sunday Clothes with its choreography is close to being one of the happiest thing I've ever seen.

Rowan Atkinson, Oliver!
Clive Carter, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
John Marquez, Annie Get Your Gun
Jason Pennycooke, La Cage aux Folles

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