A FLINTSHIRE theatre will be going for gold at the UK Theatre Awards.

Mold's Theatr Clwyd has been nominated for Best New Play, Best Musical Production and The Renee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre at an awards ceremony which takes place on Sunday at London's historic Guildhall.

Up for Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards, against three other high-profile nominees, is Home, I’m Darling by Laura Wade — a Theatr Clwyd and National Theatre co-production about the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.

Directed by Tamara Harvey and starring Wales’ very own Richard Harrington (Hinterland) and Sara Gregory, alongside Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Humans), the play was the first National Theatre co-production to premiere outside London — playing to sell-out audiences at Theatr Clwyd’s Emlyn Williams Theatre in Mold in July.

Meanwhile, critically acclaimed musical The Assassination of Katie Hopkins is nominated for the Best Musical Production.

The original show, which was staged at Theatr Clwyd in April and May, explores truth, celebrity and public outrage as it sets the scene of a shocking crime that divides the nation.

Finally, Theatr Clwyd’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire — produced in collaboration with Nuffield Southampton Theatres and English Touring Theatre — is up against two other UK nominees for the Renee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre.

Tamara Harvey, artistic director at Theatr Clwyd and director of Home, I’m Darling said: ''Something important is happening here in our hilltop home in north Wales – the work we began when Liam and I took the helm is beginning to bear fruit, and this spring we took the leap to stage a brand new musical and a brand new play.

''The risk paid off, and we were rewarded by enthusiastic and supportive audiences. Very different shows in both tone and content but both brilliantly entertaining, whilst asking big questions of our society.

''Both were built by our highly skilled in-house teams at Theatr Clwyd, building, painting, costume making and props creating – it’s an increasing rarity to have skills like these in-house.

''And both involved talented and inspiring Welsh artists at the heart of the creative teams and casts, and both are now being recognised nationally. We couldn’t be more proud of everyone involved.”

The UK Theatre Awards, with a wide range of sector-specific category awards on offer, is the only nationwide awards to honour and celebrate outstanding achievements in regional theatre throughout the UK.

Emma Jordan, another member of the Theatr Clwyd family who directed the Theatr Clwyd and Sherman Theatre co-production of William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, currently playing at Theatr Clwyd, is nominated in the Best Director category for Lovers: Winners and Losers at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.

Executive Director at Theatr Clwyd, Liam Evans-Ford said: “We are very proud of the impact we have made this year both individually and through partnership work — where theatre made in north east Wales has been shared and discussed both nationally and internationally.

“Our new musical The Assassination of Katie Hopkins gained major press coverage across the UK and was even debated on talk shows in the US. Our new production of Home, I’m Darling was given its world premiere here in north Wales before transferring to The National Theatre on the South Bank in London — the first time in their history a co-production has been ‘given to them’ as a partner rather than the other way around."