Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
| Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best New Play |
| Location |
 United Kingdom |
| Presented by | The Society of London Theatre |
| Currently held by | Hangmen (2016) |
| Official website | Olivier Awards.com |
The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and, renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor Lord Olivier.
The award was originally entitled Play of the Year but was later renamed in 2001.
Winners and nominees
1970s
| Year | Play | Writer |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | ||
| Dear Daddy | Denis Cannan | |
| For King and Country | John Wilson | |
| Funny Peculiar | Mike Stott | |
| Old World | Aleksei Arbuzov and Ariadne Nicolaeff | |
| 1977 | ||
| The Fire that Consumes | Henry de Montherlant, Vivian Cox and Bernard Miles | |
| Cause Célèbre | Terence Rattigan | |
| Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi | Pam Gems | |
| State of Revolution | Robert Bolt | |
| 1979 | ||
| Whose Life is It Anyway? | Brian Clark | |
| Half-Life | Julian Mitchell | |
| Lark Rise | Flora Thompson and Keith Dewhurst | |
| Plenty | David Hare | |
| 1979 | ||
| Betrayal | Harold Pinter | |
| Night and Day | Tom Stoppard | |
| The Crucifer of Blood | Arthur Conan Doyle and Paul Giovanni | |
| Undiscovered Country | Arthur Schnitzler and Tom Stoppard |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Year | Play | Writer |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||
| The Mountaintop | Katori Hall | |
| ENRON | Lucy Prebble | |
| Jerusalem | Jez Butterworth | |
| Red | John Logan | |
| 2011 | ||
| Clybourne Park | Bruce Norris | |
| End of the Rainbow | Peter Quilter | |
| The Little Dog Laughed | Douglas Carter Beane | |
| Sucker Punch | Roy Williams | |
| Tribes | Nina Raine | |
| 2012 | ||
| Collaborators | John Hodge | |
| Jumpy | April De Angelis | |
| One Man, Two Guvnors | Richard Bean | |
| The Ladykillers | Graham Linehan | |
| 2013 | ||
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Simon Stephens | |
| Constellations | Nick Payne | |
| The Audience | Peter Morgan | |
| This House | James Graham | |
| 2014 | ||
| Chimerica | Lucy Kirkwood | |
| 1984 | Robert Icke and Duncan MacMillan | |
| The Night Alive | Conor McPherson | |
| Peter and Alice | John Logan | |
| 2015 | ||
| King Charles III | Mike Bartlett | |
| Taken at Midnight | Mark Hayhurst | |
| The Nether | Jennifer Haley | |
| Wolf Hall / Bring up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel and Mike Poulton | |
| 2016 | ||
| Hangmen | Martin McDonagh | |
| Farinelli and the King | Claire van Kampen | |
| People, Places and Things | Duncan MacMillan | |
| The Father | Florian Zeller |
See also
References
- London Theatre Guide (2008). "The Laurence Olivier Awards: Full List of Winners, 1976-2008" (.PDF). 1976-2008. The Society of London Theatre: 20. Retrieved 2008-08-30.
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