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Tue 03 Mar 2010Award celebrations a bright point in a tough year for theatre
THE AWARDS:RED LAMPS, dim lights, a music stage and a lot of strong voices: it was, as comperes for the evening Michael James Ford and Mark O’Regan acknowledged, a “rock and roll”-style event at the 13th Irish TimesTheatre Awards in Vicar Street on Sunday night.
The evening’s comperes kicked off proceedings with their list of icons of the decade, which included the Irish Theatre Institute, “an emporium that evolved into a superstore and became an institute”; former Dublin City Council arts officer Jack Gilligan, dubbed “the Pasha of Foley street”; Gate Theatre director Michael Colgan for his ability to “penetrate and control the avian mind”.
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