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Dateline: 26th August, 2007

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Total Theatre Awards Winners 2007

With a record number of nominations this year (400 - around twice as many as in 2006), Total Theatre has announced the shortlist of Edinburgh Fringe shows eligible for awards in the following categories:

Total Theatre Award for Best Emerging Company

  • 1927 for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Underbelly)
  • Precarious for Druthers (Zoo Southside)
  • Unpacked for Funeral Games (Pleasance Courtyard)
  • Analogue for Mile End (Pleasance Dome)
  • The River People for The Ordinaries… In an Awkward Silence (Bedlam Theatre)
  • Present Attempt for Attempt 3.4 (C-cubed)

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

Total Theatre Award for Best Original Work by a Collective/Ensemble

  • Chickenshed for As the Mother of a Brown Boy (Zoo Southside)
  • Tangled Feet for Game? (Gilded Balloon Teviot)
  • Rude Mechs in association with Erich Jungwirth and Richard Jordan Productions for Get Your War On (Assembly Aurora Nova)
  • Tibilisi Marionette State Theatre for The Battle of Stalingrad (Assembly Aurora Nova)
  • Vanishing Point for Subway (Traverse Theatre)
  • Bottlefed for Return to Reason (C soco)

Winner: Rude Mechs in association with Erich Jungwirth and Richard Jordan Productions for Get Your War On (Assembly Aurora Nova)

Total Theatre Award for Best Physical Performance

  • Song of the Goat/Teatr Piesn Kozla for Lacrimosa (Assembly Aurora Nova)
  • Biuro Podrozy for Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man? (Old College Quad)
  • The Corn Exchange Newbury and Signal to Noise for Longwave (Underbelly)
  • Sadari Movement Laboratory in association with AsiaNow Productions for Woyzeck (Assembly Aurora Nova)
  • Adam Read for Eclipse (C soco)
  • Pasodos Dance Company for Sorry, Love (C Chambers)

Winner: Sadari Movement Laboratory in association with AsiaNow Productions for Woyzeck (Assembly Aurora Nova)

Total Theatre Award for Experimentation

  • Little Dove Theatre Art for Six Women Standing in Front of a White Wall (C soco)
  • Ontroerend Goed for The Smile Off Your Face (C soco)
  • Rotozaza for Etiquette (Assembly Aurora Nova)
  • Festival Highlights/Chris Goode for Hippo World Guest Book (Pleasance Dome)
  • Au Cul du Loop for Score (Terre D'Arène) (Assembly Aurora Nova)
  • science made simple for Visualise - The Beauty of Science (Venue 13)

Winner: Ontroerend Goed for The Smile Off Your Face (C soco)

Total Theatre Award for Best Small Scale Work

  • Adrian Howells for An Audience with Adrienne (Traverse Theatre)
  • Traverse Theatre, News From Nowhere and the Fruitmarket Gallery for England (Traverse at the Fruitmarket Gallery)
  • Fraser Hooper for Funny Business Starring Fraser Hooper (The Spiegel Garden)
  • Hoipolloi and The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich/ Escalator East to Edinburgh for Hugh Hughes in …Story of a Rabbit (Pleasance Courtyard)
  • Organic Theatre for Sheepskin (Pleasance Courtyard)
  • Playgroup for The Art of Swimming (Traverse Theatre)

Winner: Traverse Theatre, News From Nowhere and the Fruitmarket Gallery for England (Traverse at the Fruitmarket Gallery)

The Total Theatre Award for Significant Contribution was awarded to Jos Houben, who is currently appearing in the The Art of Laughter and a founder member of the theatre group, Complicite.

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