Jodie Comer with her award for Best Actress for Prima Facie
(Picture: Dave Benett)The 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards ceremony was an emotional affair last night. Dame Vanessa Redgrave spoke movingly about her father. Stephen Graham said of Jodie Comer: “Our kid f***ing smashed it.” Producer and theatre owner Nica Burns declared: “We are bloody good at what we do.”
The country’s oldest theatrical awards, established in 1955, were back after a two-year pandemic hiatus, like the industry they salute. The awards, in association with Garrard, were hosted by the paper’s owner Lord Lebedev at the Ivy in West Street.
