humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

FALSTAFF AWARDS 2007: Winners Announced

PlayShakespeare.com is pleased to announce the nominees and winners
for the annual Falstaff Awards for 2007. With PlayShakespeare.com's
international reach, reviewers worldwide have come together to honor
the best in Shakespeare for the year of 2007. The Falstaff Awards
recognize extraordinary achievement in the areas of Best Play, Best
Director, Best Performance by a Male or Female Actor, among other
performance and technical categories.

This year's winners include Sir Ian McKellen for his performance in
the Royal Shakespeare Company's King Lear and Rupert Goold for his
direction of Macbeth starring Partick Stewart.

The Falstaff Awards honor the DVD release of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet
as the Best Film/DVD of 2007. This long-awaited special edition
release gave Shakespeare aficionados what they'd long clamored for,
and more.

Also honored was the new edition of the RSC Complete Works by editors
Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. Taking a bold stance behind the
First Folio, this tome made a stronger case than any other publication
to date.

Of note is the Lear Award for Lifetime Achievement was awarded to
William Hutt in recognition of his lifelong contribution to
Shakespeare performance. Mr. Hutt was slated to perform in Edward
Albee's A Delicate Balance at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival
(after 39th seasons) but withdrew in March 2007 because of health
concerns. He passed away of leukemia a few months later at the age of
87.

The complete list of nominees and winners can be found at:
http://www.playshakespeare.com/falstaff