Scottish theatre has nominations in five of the eleven categories in this year's UK Theatre Awards.
They include one for Mark Thomson, the outspoken artistic director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, who is to step down at the end of the venue's 50th anniversary season next year.
Mr Thomson is nominated for Best Director for his staging of Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a show which won Best Production and Best Ensemble titles at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) earlier this year.
The winner of the Best Male Performance CATS prize, Grant O'Rourke, is also among the nominees in the UK Awards, for his playing of the dual parts of Zanetto and Tonino, the siblings separated at birth in Goldoni's The Venetian Twins, another Royal Lyceum show.
Yer Granny, Douglas Maxwell's adaptation of Argentinian comedy La Nona for the National Theatre of Scotland, is nominated for Best Touring Production.
Scottish Opera is nominated in the Opera category for its recent staging Janacek's Jenufa, which was directed by Annilese Miskimmon and conducted by the company's recently appointed music director Stuart Stratford.
In the Best Design category Stewart Laing and Mimi Jordan Sherin are nominated for the kitchen-set production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus at Dundee Rep, which transformed the neighbouring Bonar Hall for a version of the play by outgoing Dundee Rep director Philip Howard, which Laing also directed.
The winners of the UK Theatre Awards will be announced and presented at a ceremony in London's Guildhall on Sunday October 18.
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