Total Theatre Awards – Past Winners

2013 Awards

Shows by an Emerging Company/Artist

Sh!t Theatre’s JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous) 2013 (England)

Sh!t Theatre / Escalator East to Edinburgh (Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel)

 

Physical/Visual Theatre

L’Après-midi d’un Foehn – Version 1 (France)

Company Non Nova, presented by Crying out Loud (Summerhall)

Flown (England)

Pirates of the Carabina, presented by Crying out Loud (Underbelly)

 

Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with Form

Bonanza (Belgium)

Berlin, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan Productions, Drum Plymouth, Summerhall (Summerhall)

 

Have I No Mouth (Ireland)

Brokentalkers (Traverse)

 

The Worst of Scottee (England)

Scottee Inc. (Assembly)

 

Significant Contribution Award

 

C!rca (Australia)

 

2012 Awards

Emerging artist/company:

• XXXO (Belgian), Charlotte De Bruyne & Nathalie Marie Verbeke, Supported by Ontroerend Goed, Richard Jordan, in association with Pleasance

Total Theatre Awards for excellence in physical/visual theatre:

• Caesarean Section – Essays on Suicide (Poland)

• Teatr Zar (Summerhall)
• (remor) (Spain) Theatre Res de Res (C venues)

 

Total Theatre Awards for innovation, experimentation, playing with form:

• All that is Wrong (Belgium), Ontroerend Goed, Laika, Richard Jordan Productions, Drum Theatre Plymouth (Traverse)

 

• Bullet Catch  (Scotland), Arches presents Rob Drummond (Traverse)

 

• Doctor Brown – Befrdfgth  (England / USA), Soho Theatre and the Mason Sisters @ PBJ (Underbelly)

Total Theatre Award for making a significant contribution to theatre: 

• Helen Lannaghan and Joseph Seelig from London International Mime Festival

 

2011 Awards

Emerging artist/company:

• Sailing On, ShadyJane, New Town Theatre

Physical/ Visual/ Devised:

• Swamp Juice, Bunk Puppets (Canada) and Scamp Theatre (UK), Underbelly Cowgate
• Turandot, NeTTheatre and Grupa Coincidentia, New Town Theatre, Universal Arts

Innovation:

• Maybe if you choreograph me, you will feel better (MEN ONLY), Tania el Khoury,  Forest Fringe
• You Once Said Yes, Look Left, Look Right, Underbelly, Cowgate
• May I Have the Pleasure? The Arches presents Adrian Howells (Scotland) Traverse @ The Point Hotel Conference Centre

 

Significant Contribution to the field of Total Theatre:

• Judith Knight (Arts Admin)

 

2010 Awards

Emerging artist/company:

• Sex Idiot presented by Bryony Kimmings / Escalator East to Edinburgh at Zoo Roxy

 

Physical/Visual Theatre:

• White presented by Catherine Wheels at Traverse Theatre @ Scottish Book Trust
• Tabu presented by Nofit State at Nofit State Circus, Leith Walk

Innovation:

• Roadkill presented by Ankur Productions/ Pachamama Productions at Traverse Theatre
• The Author presented by Tim Crouch /News from Nowhere at Traverse Theatre: 30 Days to Space presented by Bootworks Theatre at Forest Fringe Café

 

• Significant Contribution to the field of Total Theatre: David Bates, Speigelmaestro of The Famous Speigeltent

 

2009 Awards

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 by Beady 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

 

2008 Awards 

Experiment & innovation

• Ontroerend Goed, Kopergiettery & Richard Jordan Productions for Once and For All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen  (Traverse)

Best Graduate Company

• Little Bulb Theatre for Crocosmia (The Space@The Radisson)

Award for Story Theatre

• Puppet State Theatre Company & Scottish Storytelling Centre for The Man who Planted Trees

Best Young Company

• The TEAM & National Theatre of Scotland Workshop for Architecting (Traverse)

Significant contribution to Physical and Visual Theatre

• Footsbarn Touring Theatre

 

2007 Awards

Best Emerging Company

• 1927 for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Underbelly)

 

Best original work by an Ensemble

• Rude Mechs with Erich Jungwirth and Richard Jordan Productions for Get Your War On (Assembly Aurora Nova)

Best physical performance

• Sadari Movement Laboratory in association with Asia Now for Woyzeck (Assembly Aurora Nova)

Experimentation

• Ontroerend Goed for The Smile Off Your Face (C venues)

Best small-scale work

• News From Nowhere/ Tim Crouch for England (Traverse at Fruitmarket Gallery)

 

2006 Awards

• Hysteria by Inspector Sands and Stamping Ground (Aurora Nova)
• Past Half Remembered by NIE (New International Encounter at Pleasance)
• Floating by Hoipolloi (Pleasance)
• Scalvi/Song of an Emigrant by Farm in the Cave (Aurora Nova)

Best Newcomer

• And even my goldfish by Chotto Ookii (C Venues)

Innovation

• The Receipt by Will Adamsdale/Chris Branch (Assembly)

Significant Contribution to Physical/Visual Theatre

• Battersea Art Centre (BAC)

 

2005 Awards

• The Devil’s Larder by Grid Iron
• Absence and Presence by Andrew Dawson
• Don’t Look Back by dreamthinkspeak

 

• Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers by Kazuko Hohki
• Roadmetal Sweetbread by Station House Opera
• The Race by Gecko

 

2003 Awards

• White Cabin by Akhe (Russian)
• Pandora 88 by Fabrik Company (Germany)
• There Where We Were by Deja Donne (Italy)
• Club Luz by Eddie Ladd
• C’est Vauxhall by Duckie
• The Illusion Brothers by Blow Up Theatre
• Waterfall by Materiali Resistenti Dance Factory

Most supportive Venue

• Aurora St Stephens

 

2002 Awards

• Compagnie Fiat Lux for Nouvelles Folies
• Company F/Z for Throat
• Nats Nus for Ful
• Shona Reppe Puppets for Cinderella
• Theatrum Botanicum for GO GO: The Boy With The Magic Feet
• Wishbone for Scapegoat

Outstanding Achievement, Excellence And Innovation

• Derevo

 

Most Supportive Venue

• Aurora Nova

 

2000 Awards

• Ariel Teatr for A Little Requiem for Kantor
• BlackSKYwhite for Bertrand’s Toys
• Generally Better Productions (later known as Theatre O) for 3 Dark Tales
• Pig Iron Theatre Company for Poet in New York
• Shunt for The Ballad of Bobby Francois
• Spymonkey for Stiff – Undertaking Undertaking

Most Supportive Venue

• The Pleasance

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Monika Pagneux

 

1999 Awards

Best Overall Production

• Anonymous Society for Jacques Brel

Best Newcomer

• Metro-Boulot-Dodo for Reunion

Best British Production

• Ridiculusmus for The Exhibitionists and Yes Yes Yes

Best International Production

• Theatre Talipot for The Water Carriers and Passage

Audience’s Choice

• No Ordinary Angels for Deadly

Best Use Of Design

• The Young Vic Theatre Company for The Arabian Nights

Most Supportive Venue

• Continental Shifts At St Brides

Lifetime Achievement Awards

• Ken Campbell and Nola Rae

 

1997 Awards 

Most Innovative overall production

• The Right Size for Do You Come Here Often?

Audience’s choice award

• Acrobat for Acrobat

Most Innovative International Production

• Derevo for Red Zone

Best Use of Design

• Co Yvette Bozsik for Homage a Mary Wigman

Most Innovative Touring Production

• Fecund Theatre for 27

Best Newcomer

• K486 for The Trial

Lifetime Achievement

• Steven Berkoff