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Winners of the M.E.N Theatre Awards 2002

Musical
Beauty And The Beast (Palace Theatre) review

Best actress in a supporting role
Rachel Pickup in Time And The Conways (Royal Exchange)

Best actor in a supporting role
Stephen Scott in Ten Rillington Place (Oldham Coliseum) review

Opera
Tamerlano (Royal Northern College Of Music)

Dance
Dance Theater Of Harlem (The Lowry) review

Best visiting production
To Kill A Mockingbird, from Clwyd Theatre Cymru (The Lowry) review

Best fringe production
The Irish Giant, from New Breed (Contact) review

Best fringe performer
Oliver Dimsdale, in The Dead Wait (Royal Exchange Studio) review


Special entertainment
Disney On Ice presents Beauty And The Beast (Manchester Evening News Arena) review

Best actress in a visiting production
Diana Quick, in Ghosts (The Lowry) review

Best actor in a visiting production
Timothy West, in King Lear (Buxton Opera House and The Lowry) review

Comedy
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Design
Kenny Miller and Phil Davies for Ten Rillington Place (Oldham Coliseum) review

Production
The Memory Of Water, directed by Roger Haines (Library Theatre) review

New play
52 Degrees South, by Andy Farrell and Kevin Fegan (Imperial War Museum North)

Most promising newcomer
Naomi Frederick, in Time And The Conways (Royal Exchange)

Best actress in a leading role
Zoe Henry, in Pygmalion (Library Theatre) review

Best actor in a leading role
Ben Keaton, in American Buffalo (Royal Exchange) and The Odd Couple (Library Theatre) review

Horniman Award
The Library Theatre

Performance of the year - voted on by M.E.N readers
Pete Postlethwaite, in The Homecoming (Royal Exchange) review

Best actor in a British soap - voted on by M.E.N readers
Brian Capron, in Coronation Street

Best actress in a British soap - voted on by M.E.N readers
Sue Nicholls, in Coronation Street