John Whiting Award

This article is about the British award for the writing of plays. For the American award for writers, see Whiting Writers' Award.

Between 1965 and 2010, the John Whiting Award (from 2007 renamed the Peter Wolff Trust Supports the John Whiting Award) was awarded annually to a British or Commonwealth playwright who, in the opinion of a consortium of UK theatres, showed a new and distinctive development in dramatic writing with particular relevance to contemporary society. The award was established in 1965 to commemorate John Whiting and his distinctive contribution to post-war British theatre. Until 2006, the selection was made by the drama panel of Arts Council England, and the play did not need to have been staged, which allowed plays produced on radio to be considered.

From 2007, only plays which had been performed in the subsidised sector were eligible. The award was initially worth £1000, but grew to £6000 per year. From 2007, the award was supplied by the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust and was administered by a consortium of UK theatres which specialise in new writing.

The theatres involved were:

Winners of the John Whiting Award
YearPlaywrightPlay
1967 Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Wole SoyinkaThe Interpreters
1967Peter NicholsA Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1968 Peter BarnesThe Ruling Class
Edward BondNarrow Road to the Deep North
1969Howard BrentonChristie in Love
1970Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint)Freehold on Antigone
1971Mustapha MaturaAs Time Goes By
1972Heathcote WilliamsAC/DC
1973John Arden
1974David Rudkin
1975
1976David EdgarDestiny
1977David LanThe Winter Dancers
1978 David Halliwell
Snoo WilsonThe Glad Hand
1979Stephen BillThe Old Order
1980
1981David PownallBeef
1982Karim AlrawiMigrations
1983Peter FlanneryOur Friends in the North
1984Ron HutchinsonThe Rat in the Skull
1985 Guy HibbertOn the Edge
Heidi ThomasShamrocks & Crocodiles
1986Nick DearThe Art of Success
1987
1988Iain HeggieAmerican Bagpipes
1989Billy RocheA Handful of Stars
1990
Lucy GannonKeeping Tom Nice
1991Terry JohnsonImagine Drowning
1992Rod WoodenYour Home in the West
1993 Martin CrimpThe Treatment
Helen EdmundsonThe Clearing
1994Jonathan HarveyBeautiful Thing
1995Joe PenhallSome Voices
1996Ayub Khan-DinEast is East
1997Ann CoburnGet Up and Tie Your Fingers
1998/9Roy WilliamsStarstruck
1999
2000 David GreigThe Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union
Tanika GuptaThe Waiting Room
2001Zinnie HarrisFurther than the Furthest Thing
2002Peter RumneyJumping on my Shadow
2003Rona MunroIron
2004Owen McCaffertyScenes from the Big Picture
2005Fin KennedyHow to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
2006 James PhillipsThe Rubenstein Kiss
Fraser GraceBreakfast with Mugabe
2007Dennis KellyTaking Care of Baby
2008Bryony LaveryStockholm
2009Alexi Kaye CampbellThe Pride
2010 Tim CrouchThe Author
Lucy Kirkwoodit felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now

External links

http://twp.posterous.com/shortlist-announced-peter-wolff-theatre-trust

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