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Butley. An American Theatre Wing Antoinette Perry or 'Tony' Award, presented to Alan Bates for Best Actor in a Play, given in 1973, nickel-plated brass and bronze medallion, the obverse featuring the theatrical masks of tragedy and comedy raised in relief, encircled with the text, 'Antoinette Perry Award', the reverse lettered in relief and engraved with specific details of this award, 'The League of New York Theatres, Inc. / Presents to / Alan Bates / Actor-Dramatic Star / "Butley" / For Distinguished Achievement in Theatre / 1973', diameter 8 cm (3 ins), held in a nickel-pated pewter swivel and mounted on a black acrylic base, gilt silver plaque lettered 'American Theatre Wing / Tony Award' (crookedly set), height 21 cm (8.25 ins), together with a second award, The Delia Austrian Medal for Distinguished Performance, presented to Alan Bates, "Butley", engraved brass medallion, diameter 7cm (2.75ins), in original plush-lined blue morocco push button cash by Medallic Art Co., New York Provenance: From the family of Sir Alan Bates (1934-2003). Butley is a play by Simon Gray set in the office of an English lecturer at a university in London. The title character, a T.S. Eliot scholar, is an alcoholic who loses his wife and his close friend and colleague - and possibly male lover - on the same day. It was first performed at the Criterion Theatre in London on 14 July 1971, produced by Michael Codron and directed by Harold Pinter. For his lead role Alan Bates won the 1971 Evening Standard Award for Best Actor. Bates reprised his performance the following year in a Broadway production directed by James Hammerstein at the Morosco Theatre, where it ran for 14 previews and 135 performances, and for which he won this Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Bates was to reprise the role once more for a film adaptation in 1974, again directed by Harold Pinter. (Qty: 2)