Mescal, 27, mentioned his fast success “doesn’t really feel actual.”
“But it surely’s type of occurring at such a fee that there isn’t a time to cease and assume, ‘This can be a phenomenal feeling,’” he mentioned.
Liverpool-born Comer, 30, gained the most effective actress in a play award for the one-person present “Prima Facie,” which she is taking to Broadway later this month. Suzie Miller’s drama a couple of lawyer coping with the aftermath of a sexual assault was additionally named greatest new play.
Comer, who shot to fame as star of TV spy sequence “Killing Eve,” gave a shoutout “to any children who haven’t been to drama faculty, who can’t afford to go to drama faculty, who has been rejected from drama faculty — don’t let anybody let you know that it isn’t doable.”
“My Neighbor Totoro” was named greatest leisure or comedy play on the Oliviers, the U.Okay. equal of Broadway’s Tony Awards. Phelim McDermott gained best-director trophy for the Royal Shakespeare Firm’s adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s magical coming-of-age movie. It additionally took prizes for sound, lighting, costumes and units.
“Standing on the Sky’s Edge,” an city elegy set to the music of singer-songwriter Richard Hawley, was named greatest new musical, whereas an edgy, pared-down tackle Rodgers and Hammerstein’s corn-fed basic “Oklahoma!” gained the prize for greatest musical revival.
Arthur Darvill gained the best-actor in a musical prize for taking part in Curly in “Oklahoma!” Katie Brayben was named greatest actress in a musical for taking part in televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker within the Almeida Theatre’s “Tammy Faye.”
Musical Supporting efficiency trophies went to Beverley Knight for hiphop suffragette story “Sylvia” and Zubin Varla for “Tammy Faye.” Will Eager was named greatest actor in a play for taking part in Vladimir Putin in “Patriots,” a play concerning the Russian chief’s relationship with oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
Eager known as his character a “residing, respiration, internationally acknowledged villain.”
Veteran actor Derek Jacobi obtained a lifetime achievement award to rejoice his six-decade profession.
Hannah Waddingham – a West Finish musical star earlier than she discovered TV fame because the proprietor of a struggling soccer staff on “Ted Lasso” — hosted the ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Corridor, which included performances from musical nominees together with “The Band’s Go to,” “Sylvia,” “Tammy Faye,” “Oklahoma!” and “Sister Act.”
The prizes had been based in 1976 and named for the late actor-director Laurence Olivier. Winners are chosen by voting teams of stage professionals and theatergoers.
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