Evening Standard Theatre Award - Best Play

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1958 Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1960 Harold Pinter The Caretaker
1961 Jean Anouilh Becket
1963 Jean Anouilh Poor Bitos
1964 Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1965 John Osborne A Patriot for Me
1966 Joe Orton Loot
1967 Peter Nichols A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1968 John Osborne The Hotel in Amsterdam
1969 Peter Nichols The National Health
1971 Simon Gray Butley
1972 Tom Stoppard Jumpers
1974 Alan Ayckbourn The Norman Conquests
1975 Simon Gray Otherwise Engaged
1976 Howard Brenton Weapons of Happiness
1977 Alan Ayckbourn Just Between Ourselves
1978 Tom Stoppard Night and Day
1979 Peter Shaffer Amadeus
1980 Ronald Harwood The Dresser
1981 Peter Nichols Passion Play
1982 Tom Stoppard The Real Thing
1984 Michael Frayn Benefactors
1985 David Hare Pravda
1985 Howard Brenton Pravda
1987 Alan Ayckbourn A Small Family Business
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