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A life of dancer and choreographer Kenneth Macmillan has won the 2009 Theatre Book Prize, awarded annually by the Society for Theatre Research.
Actress Sheila Hancock announced author Jann Parry to be the winner for Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth Macmillan (Faber).
Judge and theatre critic Mark Shenton said "I don't think I read a more fascinating or more exhaustively researched volume all year than Jann Parry's Different Drummer . . . It is a remarkable achievement."
The other judges were Professor Jane Moody of York University and actor Matthew Kelly, with the chair Howard Loxton for the Society for Theatre Research.
The prize is given annually for the best book, published in English during the past year, on the history and technique of British or British-related theatre in all its aspects.
The shortlist in full:
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Historiography by Thomas Postlewait (Cambridge University Press)
Different Drummer: the Life of Kenneth Macmillan by Jan Parry (Faber)
Opera for Everybody: The Story of English National Opera by Susie Gilbert (Faber)
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre edited by Richard Dutton (Oxford University Press)
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi by Andrew Stott (Canongate)