The Best Theatre of 2017

In accordance with being a critic in December, I must be writing my theatre picks for 2017. Keep an eye out for a more thought-out analysis in the Irish Independent.

If you think I got it wrong, sound off in the comments. 

Best Director

Caroline Byrne - Katie Roche

Annabelle Comyn - Dubliners

Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd - Hamnet

Enda Walsh - The Second Violinist 

Alexander Wright - The Great Gatsby

Best Set Design

Ciaran Bagnall - Red, The Great Gatsby

Owen Boss - The Same

Francis O’Connor - Private Lives, The King of the Castle

Monica Frawley - The Red Shoes

Joanna Scotcher - Katie Roche

Best Lighting Design

Aedín Cosgrove - Crestfall 

James F. Ingalls - The King of the Castle 

Paul Keogan - The Red Shoes

Sarah Jane Shiels - Neon Western

Kevin Treacy - Radamisto

Best Costume Design 

Sarah Bacon - The Water Orchard

Monica Frawley - The Red Shoes 

Peter O’Brien - The Great Gatsby

Molly O’Cathain - Mr Burns: A Post Electric Play

Francis O’Connor - Private Lives 

Best Music 

Ivan Birthistle - Tribes

Donnacha Dennehy - The Second Violinist

Peter Power - Neon Western

Andrew Synnott - Dubliners

Isobel Waller Bridge - The Great Gatsby

Best Video Design

Adam Gibney - The Effect 

José Miguel Jiménez - Hamnet

John Gunning and Claire O'Reilly - Jericho

Conan McIvor - Tribes

Jack Phelan - The Water Orchard, The Second Violinist

Best Choreography

Philip Connaughton - Extraterrestrial Events 

Jessica Kennedy and Megan Kennedy - Soldier Still

Vicki Manderson - Jimmy’s Hall

Emma Martin - Girl Song

Liz Roche - The Red Shoes

Best New Play

Caitríona Daly - Normal 

Owen McCafferty - Fire Below (A War of Words)

Seanan McDonnell - End Of.

Bush Moukarzel, Ben Kidd and William Shakespeare - Hamnet

Emma O’Grady - What Good is Looking Well When You’re Rotten Inside?

Best Performance

Justine Cooper - Girl Song

Caoilfhionn Dunne - Katie Roche

Clare Dunne - Tribes

Julie Koenig - Soldier Still

Louis Lovett - Dublin by Lamplight

Siobhan McSweeney - Autumn Royal, Katie Roche 

Aaron Monaghan - The Second Violinist

Alex Nowak - Tribes

Patrick O’Kane - Red

Owen Roe - One for the Road, Melt

Best Ensemble

Fire Below (A War of Words)

Jimmy’s Hall

Let the Right One In

Normal

The Great Gatsby

Best Breakthrough

Eoghan Carrick - Nora

Stephanie Dufresne - The Red Shoes

Thomas Finnegan - Red

Charlie Maher - Melt

Aoibheann McCann - The Great Gatsby

Best Comeback 

Sean Campion - Katie Roche

Karen Egan - Dublin by Lamplight

Charlene McKenna - The Great Gatsby

Rosaleen Linehan - Woyzeck in Winter, The Red Shoes

Lynda Radley - Futureproof

Worst Production

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Radamisto

The King of the Castle

What Put the Blood

Woyzeck in Winter

Productions I Missed While Looking in the Wrong Places
Beckett Hazelwood
Deadline!
Drinking in America
Famla
Far Away