Stage award for Hollywood star
March 23, 2010, Tuesday
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RACHEL Weisz added a stage accolade to Hollywood stardom on Sunday, winning the best-actress prize at London's Laurence Olivier theater awards for her role in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
The prize for a Londoner made good in the US was fitting on a night that rewarded several Broadway-bound productions, including "The Mountaintop," a play about Martin Luther King by 28-year-old American writer Katori Hall.
Rock musical "Spring Awakening" - which traveled the opposite direction, from New York to London - took four prizes, including best new musical.
Weisz won for playing faded belle Blanche Dubois in the Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' southern drama. Ruth Wilson, as Stella, was best supporting actress.
Weisz said it had been a delight to return to the theater after an eight-year absence. "I think it's the greatest feeling in the world, being on stage," she said.
Mark Rylance was named best actor for playing Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jez Butterworth's riotous rural drama "Jerusalem." He beat contenders including Jude Law in "Hamlet."
"Somebody asked me what it's like to be up against Jude Law," Rylance said. "I don't know what that experience is like. I'm sure it's very nice."
Hall was only the fourth woman, and the first black woman, to win in the best play category. "The Mountaintop" is a drama about civil rights leader King set on the night before his assassination.
It beat the heavily favored "Jerusalem" and Lucy Prebble's "Enron," an account of the energy giant's fall.
Rupert Goold was named best director for "Enron," which opens at New York's Broadhurst Theatre next month.
The prize for a Londoner made good in the US was fitting on a night that rewarded several Broadway-bound productions, including "The Mountaintop," a play about Martin Luther King by 28-year-old American writer Katori Hall.
Rock musical "Spring Awakening" - which traveled the opposite direction, from New York to London - took four prizes, including best new musical.
Weisz won for playing faded belle Blanche Dubois in the Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' southern drama. Ruth Wilson, as Stella, was best supporting actress.
Weisz said it had been a delight to return to the theater after an eight-year absence. "I think it's the greatest feeling in the world, being on stage," she said.
Mark Rylance was named best actor for playing Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jez Butterworth's riotous rural drama "Jerusalem." He beat contenders including Jude Law in "Hamlet."
"Somebody asked me what it's like to be up against Jude Law," Rylance said. "I don't know what that experience is like. I'm sure it's very nice."
Hall was only the fourth woman, and the first black woman, to win in the best play category. "The Mountaintop" is a drama about civil rights leader King set on the night before his assassination.
It beat the heavily favored "Jerusalem" and Lucy Prebble's "Enron," an account of the energy giant's fall.
Rupert Goold was named best director for "Enron," which opens at New York's Broadhurst Theatre next month.
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