Jodie Comer, Paul Mescal take acting gold at Olivier Awards

By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Screen stars Paul Mescal and Jodie Comer have won prizes at London’s Olivier Awards for their first-ever West End stage roles. A stage adaptation of Japanese animated classic “My Neighbor Totoro” won six trophies. Irish actor Mescal  was named best actor in a play for his turn as the brutish Stanley Kowalski in “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Almeida Theatre. Liverpool-born Comer won the best actress in a play award for the one-person show “Prima Facie,” which she is taking to Broadway later this month. “My Neighbor Totoro” was named best entertainment or comedy play at the Oliviers, which are the U.K. equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards.