Total Theatre Awards
Founded in 1997, the Total Theatre Awards were created to recognise exceptional physical and visual work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and to raise the profile of these forms at a national level. Below are the Awards granted in the period covered by this archive.
2012
Res de Res
Physical / Visual Theatre(remor)
Ontroerend Goed
Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with FormAll That is Wrong
Rob Drummond
Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with FormBullet Catch
Doctor Brown
Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with FormBefrdfgth
Charlotte De Bruyne, Nathalie Marie Verbeke
Emerging Companies/ArtistsXXXO
Teatr Zar
Physical / Visual TheatreCaesarean Section - Essays on Suicide
2011
ShadyJane
Emerging Artist / CompanySailing On
Bunk Puppets, Scamp Theatre
Physical / Visual / DevisedSwamp Juice
NeTTheatre, Grupa Coincidentia
Physical / Visual / DevisedTurandot
Look Left Look Right
InnovationYou Once Said Yes
Adrian Howells
Physical / Visual / DevisedMay I Have the Pleasure...?
Tania el Khoury
Physical / Visual / DevisedMaybe if you choreograph me, you will feel better
2010
Bryony Kimmings
Emerging Artist/CompanySex Idiot
NoFit State
Physical Visual TheatreTabu
Catherine Wheels
Physical Visual TheatreWhite
Bootworks Theatre
Innovation30 Days to Space
Tim Crouch, News From Nowhere
InnovationThe Author
Cora Bissett, Ankur Productions, Pachamama Productions
InnovationRoadkill
2009
Dafydd James, Ben Lewis
Award for Music and TheatreMy Name is Sue
Improbable
Award for a Significant Contribution to Theatre MakingThe River People
Award for an Emerging Artist/CompanyLilly Through the Dark
Beady Eye
Award for Devised PerformanceEverything Must Go (Or the Voluntary Attempt to Overcome Unnecessary Obstacles)
Adrian Howells
Award for Innovation/Interaction/ImmersionFoot-Washing for the Sole
The Clod Ensemble
Award for Physical/Visual TheatreUnder Glass
2008
Ontroerend Goed
Experiment and InnovationOnce and For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen
Little Bulb Theatre
Award for a Graduate CompanyCrocosmia
Puppet State Theatre Company
Award for Story TheatreThe Man Who Planted Trees
RedCape Theatre
Award for Visual TheatreThe Idiot Colony
THE TEAM
Award for a Young CompanyArchitecting
Footsbarn
Significant Contribution to Physical and Visual Theatre2007
Rude Mechs
Best Original WorkGet Your War On
Sedari Movement Laboratory
Best Physical PerformanceWoyzeck
Ontroerend Goed
Award for ExperimentationThe Smile Off Your Face
News From Nowhere, Tim Crouch
Best Small Scale WorkEngland
Jos Houben
Award for Significant ContributionPrecarious Dance Theatre
Inaugural Wildcard AwardDruthers
1927
Best Emerging CompanyBetween the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
2006
Inspector Sands, Stamping Ground Theatre
HysteriaNIE New International Encounter
Past Half RememberedHoiPolloi
FloatingFarm in the Cave
Sclavi / Song of an EmigrantChotto Ookii
Best NewcomerAnd Even My Goldfish
Will Adamsdale, Chris Branch
Award for InnovationThe Receipt
2005
Andrew Dawson
Absence and PresenceGecko
The RaceGrid Iron
The Devil's LarderKazuko Hohki
Evidence for the Existence of BorrowersDreamthinkspeak
Don't Look BackStation House Opera
Roadmetal Sweetbread2003
Duckie
C'est VauxhallBlow Up Theatre
The Illusion BrothersMateriali Resistenti Dance Factory
WaterwallAkhe Theatre
White CabinFabrik
Pandora 88Déjà Donné
There Where We WereEddie Ladd
Club Luz2002
Fiat Lux
Nouvelles FoliesCompany FZ
ThroatNats Nus
FulShona Reppe Puppets
CinderellaTheatrum Botanicum
Go Go: The Boy with Magic FeetWishbone
ScapegoatAurora Nova
Most Supportive VenueDerevo
Award For Outstanding Excellence And Innovation2000
Shunt
The Balled of Bobby FrancoisSpymonkey
Stiff - Undertaking UndertakingPleasance
Most Supportive VenueMonika Pagneux
Lifetime Achievement AwardAriel Teatr
A Little Requiem for KantorblackSKYwhite
Bertrand's ToysTheatre O
3 Dark TalesPig Iron
Poet in New York1999
Ken Campbell, Nola Rae
Lifetime AchievementContinental Shifts at St Brides
Most Supportive VenueThe Young Vic Theatre Company
Best Use Of DesignThe Arabian Nights
No Ordinary Angels
Audience's ChoiceDeadly
Le Théâtre Talipot
Best International ProductionThe Water Carriers and Passage
Ridiculusmus
Best British ProductionThe Exhibitionists and Yes Yes Yes
Anonymous Society
Best Overall ProductionReunion
métro-boulot-dodo
Best NewcomerReunion at the Bongo Club
1997
Fecund Theatre
Most Innovative Touring Production27
Co Yvette Bozsik
Best Use of DesignHommage à Mary Wigman
Derevo
Most Innovative International ProductionRed Zone
Acrobat
Audience’s ChoiceAcrobat
The Right Size
Most Innovative Overall ProductionDo You Come Here Often?
Steven Berkoff
Lifetime AchievementK.486
Best NewcomerThe Trial
The Total Theatre Awards continued after 2012 and are still running today, produced by Total Theatre Network. For a full list of winners and information on future plans see their website.