TOTAL THEATRE AWARDS 2009
Winners Announcement
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Total Theatre is delighted to announce the winners of the Total Theatre Awards 2009. The Awards were presented to 200 people at a charged ceremony at 11.30am on 28 th August, 11am at Le Monde Hotel, George Street .
Total Theatre Award for an Emerging Artist/Company
Lilly Through the Dark presented by The River People (UK)
Bedlam
Total Theatre Award for Devised Performance
Everything Must Go (Or the Voluntary Attempt to Overcome Unnecessary Obstacles)presented byBeady Eye – Kristin Fredricksson (UK)
Augustine’s
Total Theatre Award for Innovation/Interaction/Immersion
Adrian Howells: Foot-Washing for the Sole presented by The Arches at St Stephens (UK)
Total Theatre Award for Physical/Visual Theatre
Under Glass presented by Clod Ensemble and produced by Fuel (UK)
McEwan Hall
Total Theatre Award for Music and Theatre
My Name is Sue presented by Dafydd James and Ben Lewis (UK)
Pleasance Courtyard
Total Theatre Award for a Significant Contribution to theatre making
Improbable Theatre
This award is in recognition of the achievements of this internationally acclaimed company over many years and the way in which they have brought Total Theatre to an impressive range of audiences. Improbable’s work spans diverse areas of live performance including opera, musical theatre, outdoor performance and devised theatre. Their use of open space and the introduction of Devoted and Disgruntled: What are we doing about theatre? - over the past four years has empowered artists and theatre makers to address challenges facing the sector. They have collectively shown a determined effort to reflect on and change the world of theatre making and the world in which theatre is made.
Special Commendations (work which could not be judged due to short runs)
100 Wounded Tears presented by Dot 504 (Czech) ( Zoo Southside)
This Is a Picture of a Person I Don’t Know presented by Pere Faura (Dance Base)
The Red Room presented by David Hughes Dance Productions (Traverse Theatre)
Must: The Inside Story presented by Clod Ensemble and Peggy Shaw and produced by Fuel University of Edinburgh , Medical School ( UK )
From Where I’m Standing presented by Junction 25, a young people’s company resident at Tramway Forest Fringe
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Judges: Christie Anthoney, Director – Adelaide Fringe; David Bauwens, Producer – Ontroerend Goed; Bill O’Brien, Deputy Chairman for Grants & Awards at National Endowment for the Arts Washington; Matt Burman, Executive Producer – Norfolk & Norwich Festival; Richard Cuming, Dean of Faculty of Arts – University of Winchester; Robert Jude Daniels, Senior Lecturer – University of Chichester; Lyn Gardner, Critic – The Guardian; Ben Harrison, Artistic Director – Grid Iron (& Total Theatre Board); Donald Hutera, Critic – The Times; Louise Jeffreys, Head of Theatre at the Barbican; Dorothy Max Prior, Editor – Total Theatre Magazine; John McGrath, Artisttic Director – National Theatre of Wales; Steve Scrivens, Programmer – Royal & Derngate Northampton; Nick Wood, Course Leader – Central School of Speech and Drama.
For a copy of the judges notes, please email director@totaltheatre.org.uk
Please note; A judge must see everything in a category to judge in that category and cannot judge work they have associations with.
General enquiries: totaltheatreaward@btinternet.com
Total Theatre office in Edinburgh : 07912 179 197
NEWS RELEASE - SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEMENT 20th August 2009
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Total Theatre announced the shortlist for the Total Theatre Awards 2009. A team of sixteen assessors assessed 230 shows. At an intense five hour meeting on Wednesday 19th August, 33 shows were shortlisted in five categories.
Please note: Judges reserved the right to add shows, considered to be contenders, that had not yet opened. These are indicated in the list below.
Emerging Artists/Company
Antione & the Paper Aeroplane presented by Blak Wulff Productions ( UK ) C Chambers Borges & I presented by Idle Motion ( UK ) The Zoo
Certain Dark Things presented by You Need Me ( UK ) Underbelly
Lilly Through the Dark presented by The River People ( UK ) Bedlam
Sweeney Todd – his Life, Times and Execution presented by Finger in the Pie (UK) Gilded Balloon
6.0 How Heap & Pebble Took on the world and Won presented by Dancing Brick ( UK )
Pleasance Dome
Devised performance
The Doubtful Guest presented by Hoipolloi, Theatre Royal Plymouth with ETT/Escalator East to Edinburgh Traverse Theatre
Ernest and the Pale Moon presented by Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company in association with Pins & Needles (UK) Pleasance Courtyard
Everything Must Go (Or the Voluntary Attempt to Overcome Unnecessary Obstacles)presented byBeady Eye – Kristin Fredricksson Augustine’s
Horse presented by Company F/Z ( UK ) Underbelly’s Hullabaloo
Icarus 2.0 presented by Camden People’s Theatre, Pleasance Courtyard
If That’s All ThereIs presented by Inspector Sands ( UK ) Traverse Theatre
Innovation/Interaction/Immersion
Adrian Howells: Foot-Washing for the Sole presented by The Arches at St Stephens ( UK )
Home Sweet Home presented by Subject-to-Change ( UK ) Forest Fringe
Internal presented by Ontroerend Goed and Richard Jordan Production ( Belgium ) Traverse
Love Letters Straight from your Heart presented by Uninvited Guests & Fuel ( UK ) McEwan Hall
Nic Green’sTrilogy (UK-Made in Scotland ) presented by St Stephens Church
Power Plant presented by Mark Anderson, Anne Bean, Jony Easterby, Kristen Reynolds and others ( UK ) Assembly @ Royal Botanical Gardens
The Little Box of Horrors presented by Bootworks at Forest Fringe ( UK ) various locations/times
Wondermart presented by Rotozaza(UK) Go to Forest Fringe for instruction to secret location, various times
ADDED during judging week
Ryder Spoke presented by Blast Theory ( UK ) Dance Base
Ringside presented by Mem Morrison, produced by Arts Admin ( UK ) Signet Library
Physical/Visual Theatre
A Lot of Nerve presented by Martha & Arthur (UK) Pleasance Dome
Circa presented by Assembly & Circa ( Australia ) Assembly Hall
Cocorico presented by Patrice Thibaud/Prod Illitees (France) New Town Theatre
Crime of the Century presented by Chickenshed ( UK ) Zoo Southside
Raw presented by Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre ( Ireland ) Dance Base
This is Now presented by New Art Club ( UK ) Assembly @ George St
Zeitgeist presented by Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre ( Australia ) C Chambers
ADDED during judging week
The Overcoat presented by Gecko ( UK ) Pleasance
Under Glass presented by Clod Ensemble, produced by Fuel ( UK ) McEwan Hall
Music and theatre
Accidental Nostalgia presented by Cynthia Hopkins With Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg ( USA ) Traverse Theatre
Brocante Sonore: The Mechanicians presented by Zic Zazou ( France ) C Chambers
Die Roten Punkte – Robot/Lion Tour presented by Rodney Breit, Richard Jordan and Paul Lucas ( Germany ) Pleasance Courtyard
Midsummer (A Play With Songs ) presented by Traverse Theatre Company ( UK ) My Name is Sue presented by Dafydd James and Ben Lewis ( UK ) Pleasance Courtyard
Sporadical presented by Little Bulb Theatre ( UK ) Forest Fringe
Special Commendations – shows that have already closed
100 Wounded Tears presented by Dot 504 (Czech) ( Zoo Southside)
This Is a Picture of a Person I Don’t Know presented by Pere Faura (Dance Base)
The Red Room presented by David Hughes Dance Productions (Traverse Theatre)
Long list
Barflies presented by Grid Iron (Traverse @ Barony Bar)
Beachy Head presented by Analogue (Pleasance)
Boy in Darkness presented by Curious Directive (The Zoo)
Controlled Falling Project presented by ThisSideUp Acrobatics (Udderbelly)
David Leddy’s White Tea presented by The Tron/Fire Exit Ltd (Assembly)
Found presented by Curious Seed (Dancebase)
Home of the Wriggler presented by Stan’s Café (Underbelly)
Hugh Hughes in 360 presented by Hoipolloi/Escalator East to Edinburgh (Pleasance)
Jumping Mouse presented by Unpacked (Pleasance)
Lotte’s Gift presented Christine Dunstan Productions (Assembly)
Lighter than Air presented by Circo Ridiculoso (Pleasance)
The Lamplighter’s Lament presented by Rich Rusk/The Junction/Gomito
Manolibera presented by Espresso! Teatro Italiano: Scarlattine Teatro (C Chambers)
Matinee presented by Matinee Ensemble (Pleasance)
Me (Mobile/Evolution) presented by Claire Cunningham in association with
My Life with Dogs presented by NIE/Escalator East to Edinburgh (Pleasance)
Ousia : Array/Darren Johnston presented by Jess Curtis/ Gravity (Dance Base)
Platform 88 presented by Platform 88 physical Theatre Company ( Pleasance)
The Kosh in the Storeroom presented by The Kosh (Gilded Balloon)
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church by Daniel Kitson (Traverse Theatre)
Spaceman: Dudendance Theatre presented by The Arches at St Stephens
Tom Tom Crew presented by Strut & Fret and Underbelly Productions ( Udderbelly)
Ups and Downs and Whoopsie Daisies presented by Robbie Synge and Julie Cleves (Zoo Southside)
You Fancy Yourself presented by Contrary Company (Universal Arts)
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