The star-studded awards ceremony at the State Theatre in Pretoria, which celebrates the best in Gauteng theatre, saw the versatile actress win the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role for the play God of Carnage, as well as Best Comedy Performance (Female) for Pterodactyls. Saint-Claire had been nominated in an unprecedented five categories for her various standout performances throughout the past year.
The remainder of the prizes were shared out fairly evenly among various productions, with no outright winner sweeping the boards. Two polar opposite productions – Janice Honeyman and Bernard Jay’s much-lauded pantomime Pinocchio and Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom’s gritty adults-only play Foreplay – each received three awards on the night.
Grootboom was named Best Director, while Koketso Mojela was hailed as Best Supporting Actress and Israel Bereta awarded for Best Original Choreography. For Pinocchio, Sibusiso Radebe, who delighted audiences as the little wooden puppet, received the Naledi for Best Performance in a Musical (Male), with the production itself being named Best Musical and Timothy le Roux’s turn as the dame earning him Best Comedy Performance (Male) laurels.
Other big winners on the night included John Kani, whose revival of his powerful self-penned drama Nothing But the Truth earned the kudos for Best Production of a Straight Play, with Kani also scooping the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role. The Lion and the Lamb, also with Kani at the helm, saw Margaret Motsage and Nokukhanya Dlamini sharing the award for Best Performance in a Musical (Female).
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