The Olivier Awards 2023 took place at London's Royal Albert Hall on Sunday, April 2, with The Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbour Totoro, a new production of Tennessee Williams’ 1947 drama A Streetcar Named Desire and Suzie Miller's one-woman play Prima Facie, starring Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) among those triumphing on the night.
One of the evening's more entertaining moments was provided by Sheffield-born singer/songwriter Richard Hawley, who, alongside music supervisor/arranger/ orchestrator/composer Tom Deering, took home the award for Best Original Score or New Orchestrations for the duo's work on Standing at the Sky’s Edge at the National Theatre.
As broadcast live on Magic radio, the first words of Hawley's acceptance speech were "I don't really belong here", a touch of humility only slightly under-cut by his subsequent declaration that he'd actually stood on the RAH stage 101 times as a session guitarist, with "Jools Holland and.... [pause] some other people."
