We’ve already had the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, but now the biggie is coming up: the industry’s self-governed, own awards to itself, the Laurence Olivier Awards.
It’s always nicer, I think, when someone scratches your back for you, but it is, of course, always possible to give yourself a pat on your own back if you have to. You do run the risk of getting contorted in the process, and it’s fascinating to see just how contorted they’ve got this year: the nominations were announced yesterday, and in order to squeeze as many nominations in as possible, they’ve expanded three of the categories to six nominees. Yet others contain just five, four or even three nominees apiece, depending on the category; there’s simply no consistency at all.

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