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"I loved The Effect at the National and NSFW at the Royal Court," said actress Ruth Wilson, who later presented the award for best actor to Simon Russell Beale. "Another highlight – or what I expect to be a highlight as I haven’t seen it yet – is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. My friend Luke (Treadaway) is in it and hopefully I’ll get to see his performance next weekend."

Benedict Andrews' rendition of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Young Vic was a popular choice with Felicity Jones. "Playing Nirvana onstage was so inventive and I loved the deconstruction of the stage at the end – it was so unusual and clever," she said. The actress wore a floor-length white Burberry dress and told us that her next project is promotion of her new film at Sundance Film Festival in January.

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Inside the ES Theatre Awards