2012 Glugs of Gosh Theatre Awards

A Sydney theatre appreciation society –The Glugs - held its annual awards night this week (Feb 4, 2013), giving its highest awards to Independent theatre companies and well known theatre personalities Penny Cook, Stuart Maunder and Moya O’Sullivan.

The Glugs Club has been meeting since 1966 and the annual awards night is a spiffing affair, complete with high tea in the posh dining room of the NSW Masonic Club.

Theatre aficionados turn up for a ham sandwich and to pat the year's best on the back.

The evening started with the Robert Davis Memorial Award for the most popular production. This went toI Want to Sleep with Tom Stoppard, staged by the Tamarama Rock Surfers at the Bondi Pavilion.

Best Cabaret Performer of the Year was Tyran Parke.  

Best Children's Theatre was won by The Monkey Baa Theatre Company's production of Hitler's Daughter.

The Hayes Gordon Memorial Award for Important Contribution to Theatre was won by the Penny Cook, officially described by the Glugs as ‘lovely’. (Pictured  right with Miriam Davis).

Best Female Actor (Female) was Caroline Brazier for I Want to Sleep with Tom Stoppard.Best Male Actor was Colin Moody for Red.

The Colleen Clifford Memorial Award for Best Actor in Musical Theatre (Female) went toLisa McCune for South Pacific.The Best Male Actor was Bert LaBonte  from An Officer and a Gentleman.

The Glugs Special Award for Best New Talent was awarded to Michael Whalley, who impressed with his performance in Tarantula.

The Chief Glug's Award for Excellence Behind the Scenes was presented by the Chief Glug, Lee Young, to Stuart Maunder (pictured top), described as “a talent in our midst that has gone unrewarded for some time”. Lee decided that someone who had worked so hard for Opera and theatre in this country was well deserving as a recipient of this award.

Best New Australian Performed Work went to Jonathan Biggins for Australia Day.

The Award for the Most Outstanding Production for the year was presented to The Seafarer, directed by Maeliosa Stafford, by O'Punsky's Darlinghurst Theatre. Practically the whole cast from this production was there to receive the award.  

The final award for the evening, the Seaborn Broughton and Walford Life Achievement Award, went to the great performer over the years Moya O'Sullivan.

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