The National Theatre dominated the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2011, winning five out of nine categories.

Danny Boyle’s visually spectacular and critically mixed production of Frankenstein, in which roles of Frankenstein and the Creature were shared by Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, saw Cumberbatch edging out his co-star as Best Actor and the unanimously acclaimed set earned a Best Design award for Mark Tildesley.

One Man, Two Govnors, Richard Bean’s adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s A Servant of Two Masters won Best New Play. Nicholas Hytner’s production starring James Corden has been playing in the West End since the autumn and will be moving from the Adelphi to Theatre Royal Haymarket in March with a new cast and Corden’s understudy Owain Arthur taking over the lead.

London Road, a verbatim play set to music based on the neighbourhood in which the series of murders of prostitutes in Ipswich took place, picked up Best Musical (new or revival). Also in the Cottesloe, Mike Leigh won Best Director for his devised study of post-war repression Grief.

Beyond the National, Sheridan Smith’s performance in Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path at Theatre Royal Haymarket earned her a second Best Actress Award to place alongside her Evening Standard Award and the currently ubiquitous Eddie Redmayne picked up Best Shakepearean Perfomance for the title role in Richard II at the Donmar Warehouse, Michael Grandage’s final production as artistic director.

Most Promising Playwright went to Tom Wells for The Kitchen Sink at the Bush Theatre and Blanche McInytre picked up Most Promising Newcomer (other than a playwright)  for her productions of Emlyn Williams’s Accolade and Dawn King’s Foxfinder both at the Finborough Theatre. McIntyre will shortly be presenting two new short plays as part of Angle at the Bush.