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Dateline:
28th August, 2009
Total Theatre Awards
The winners of the Total Theatre Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe have
been announced:
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 Augustine's
(UK)
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
McEwan Hall (UK)
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 many different audiences. Improbable's work spans
diverse areas of live performance from Opera and Musical Theatre to
outdoor performance and indoor 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 included 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
The judges were:
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.
A judge must see everything in a category to judge in that category
and cannot judge work they have associations with.
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