Theatre Critics Present Awards

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Table Music (photo: Máté Nándorfi)

János Térey's Table Music won the best Hungarian drama award, Sándor Zsótér was selected again as best director and Attila Dolmány and Andrea Ladányi received the awards for best male and female leads.

 
Sándor Zsótér (photo: Máté Nándorfi)

Zsóter received the best director award for The Visit performed by the Attila József Theatre. Ladányi was awarded a prize for her role in the female lead. Dolmányi won the best male lead award for his role in The House of Árpáds at the Budapest Chamber Theatre.

 
Levente Bagossy, who designed the set for Table Music, also won a prize.  The best costume award went to Fruzsina Nagy for The Ambitious.
Ethnic Hungarian theatres from abroad were recognised in three categories. The best performance prize was shared by a performance of Uncle Vanya by the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj-Napoca and The Imaginary Invalid by the National Theatre of Pécs.
 

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Andrea Ladányi (photo: Máté Nándorfi ) and Attila Dolmány (photo: Péter Kollányi MTI)

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Csaba Krisztik (photo: Eszter Gordon)

The best female supporting role award went to Adrienn Herczeg for her performance in The Imaginary Invalid in Pécs. The best male supporting role award was granted to Tibor Pálffy from Sfantu Gheorghe for his performance in Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy.

 
The best musical-entertainment award went to Sad Sunday by the People's Theatre of Subotica and the best alternative performance award to Plasma by the KoMa Company.
 
The most promising young talent award went to Csaba Krisztik for his performance in The Eaglet in Debrecen. Budapest's József Katona Theatre won a special award for the theatre history series Notorious.