Kidd Pivot's Revisor wins Britain's Olivier Award for best new dance production

Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young win the U.K.’s top performing-arts award for second time

Revisor. Photo by Michael Slobodian

 
 
 

KIDD PIVOT’S REVISOR, THE dance-theatre work that just closed here at DanceHouse, has just scored one of Britain’s Olivier Awards—that country’s version of the Tony Awards.

The Vancouver production, and its creators Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young, won the prize for best new dance production for its visit to London’s Sadler’s Wells. The show is currently on tour in Europe, visiting France, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain.

A satire about greed, deception, and how power corrupts, Revisor is set to a script voiced by Canadian actors and penned by Kidd Pivot choreographer Pite’s collaborator, theatre artist Young. It’s based on Russian Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 play The Government Inspector.

It was up against Rambert Company and Dance Umbrella for the prize.

Pite and Young had previously been awarded an Olivier for the previous production Betroffenheit in 2017.

Amid the other prizes were Life of Pi at Wyndham’s theatre as best new play, while Back to the Future: The Musical at Adelphi theatre won best new musical.

The ceremony at London's Royal Albert Hall Saturday was the first Olivier ceremony held live since 2020.  

 
 
 
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Janet Smith

Janet Smith is cofounder and editorial director of Stir. She is an award-winning arts journalist who has spent more than two decades immersed in Vancouver’s dance, screen, design, theatre, music, opera, and gallery scenes. She sits on the Vancouver Film Critics’ Circle.

 
 

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