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Victoria theatre critics honour Terminus, Jacob Richmond with year-end awards

A play about a woman who tumbles from a crane was voted best production of 2013-14 by Victoria theatre critics. Terminus won the Spotlight Critics’ Choice Award for best overall production.
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Jacob Richmond was named best actor in a professional production for his role in True West.

A play about a woman who tumbles from a crane was voted best production of 2013-14 by Victoria theatre critics.

Terminus won the Spotlight Critics’ Choice Award for best overall production. It was staged at the Belfry Theatre’s Spark Festival by Outside the March, a touring company from Toronto. Judges deemed the show “thrilling” and “a total rollercoaster of a ride.”

Written by Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe, Terminus consists of a series of monologues about a falling woman, a crisis line worker and a murderous psychopath.

The awards included:

• Jacob Richmond, best actor in a professional show, for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre’s True West;

• Britt Small, best director, for Trust West;

• Christina Poddubiuk, best set design, for the Belfry Theatre’s A Tender Thing;

• Pauline Stynes, best costume design, for the University of Victoria theatre department’s Picnic;

• Trevor Leigh, best sound design, for Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s Ignorance;

• Robert Thomson, best lighting design, for the Belfry Theatre’s A Tender Thing;

• Pacific Opera Victoria, best musical/opera production, for Marriage of Figaro;

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, best overall community theatre production, Langham Court Theatre;

• Kyle Kushnir, best performance in a community theatre production, Cabaret, Langham Court Theatre;

• Winner and Losers, Best of the Fests award, Theatre Replacement/Intrepid Theatre.

The adjudicators were theatre reviewers from the Times Colonist, CBC radio and The Marble.