The B.A.T.S. Awards 2004

Nominations:

Grant "I’ll give it a whizz" Borroff (Hans)
Jake "I just want to be a rat" Hutley (Klaus)
Kevin "I can’t sing, dance or act" Knight (Karl)

Winner: Jake Hutley

Nominations:

Steve "your warships" Hutley (Klutz)
Lauren "eeek" Mercer (Drowning Rat No. 9)
R-r-r-r-r-richard Lewis (Dancing Arkwright)

Winner: Steve Hutley

Nominations:

Grant Borroff and Pippa Revell (for practising their love duet again and again and again)
Greg Garrad (for contending nightly with unsuitable underwear)
Mags Humphrey (for reversing up a slip-road, returning home and getting her bike to beat the traffic)

Winner: Mags Humphrey

Nominations:

Kevin Knight and Gill Clarke (for good sportsmanship)
Gemma Hockley (for blonde moments too many to mention and for holding her end up against the rest of the crew)
Paul Nixon (for upholding the Saturday moon tradition)

Winner: Gemma Hockley

Heisenberg uncertainty award – The Heisenberg uncertainty principle (theatre) states that the more accurately you know which page of the script you’re on, the less likely you are actually to remember your lines.

Nominations:

Everyone in Act II Scene 3

Winner: Richard Heath

Nominations:

James Clark’s beard
Danielle Hutley (for staying in the mountain during the dress rehearsal)
Keith Raby (being offstage with his trousers round his ankles as he heard his cue line)

Nominations:

Yvonne Amoss (Wardrobe)
Siân Naylor (Choreography)
Julie Revell (Everything that needed to be done)

Winners: all three

For a young person whose individual contribution stands out.

Winner: Lauren Mercer

Since first appearing in 1985 in Cinderella, his name has rarely been absent from BATS programmes. Equally at home in pantomime, musical, murder mystery and farce, he has also worked behind the scenes many times in set construction and different areas of production. A constant supporter of the society at every level, please offer your congratulations to our beloved Treasurer and Town Clerk, Mr Richard Lewis!