Total Theatre Awards announce 2017 shortlist
© Alex Brenner
The shortlist has been announced for this year's Total Theatre Awards, highlighting the best talent at the Edinburgh Festival.
A total of seven awards will be presented across five categories, Physical & Visual Theatre, Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with Form, Emerging, Circus and Dance.
Speaking about the list, awards co-directors Jo Crowley and Becki Haines said, "In a festival year when many international artists have been denied visas to enter the UK to perform at the Fringe, Total Theatre continues to champion the vital contribution independent artists and independent voices make."
A total of 538 eligible shows were assessed over the first 11 days of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. These shows have been viewed between two and four times by a curated panel of 28 peer assessors from nine countries.
The shortlisted shows will now move to a judging panel where shows are seen by leading arts industry figures from seven countries including critics, academics, artists and programmers.
The judging panel will announce their decisions at an awards ceremony on Thursday 24 August.
The shortlist in full:
Shows by an Emerging Company / Artist
Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist
YesYesNoNo (England)
ZOO
Power Ballad
Julia Croft and Nisha Madhan presented by Zanetti Productions (New Zealand)
Summerhall
Physical / Visual Theatre
Sigma
Gandini Juggling (England)
Assembly
Snigel and Friends
Caroline Bowditch and Company (Scotland)
DanceBase
The Narrator
Spitfire Company (Czech Republic)
ZOO
Total Theatre & Jacksons Lane Award for Circus
All Genius All Idiot
Svalbard Company with Aurora Nova and Follow the Rabbit (Sweden)
Assembly
All the Fun
Cie Ea Eo in association with Aurora Nova (Belgium)
Underbelly
Fauna
Fauna in association with Aurora Nova and Follow the Rabbit (Sweden)
Assembly
No Show
Ellie Dubois (Scotland)
Summerhall
Total Theatre & The Place Award for Dance
Arab Arts Focus: Dance Double Bill
Shaymaa Shoukry / Yazan Iwidat (Egypt)
Summerhall
Dollhouse
Bill Coleman and Gordon Monahan (Canada)
DanceBase
Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus
Oona Doherty (Northern Ireland)
DanceBase
Out
Rachael Young, created with Dwayne Antony (England)
Underbelly
Taiwan Season: Together Alone
Chen-Wei Lee x Art B&B (Taiwan – Republic of China)
DanceBase
Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with Form
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Ontroerend Goed, Big in Belgium, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Vooruit, Richard Jordan Productions (Belgium)
Summerhall
Break Up (We Need To Talk)
Binge Culture (New Zealand)
Summerhall
Give Me Your Love
Ridiculusmus (England)
Summerhall
Our Carnal Hearts
Rachel Mars (England)
Summerhall
Palmyra
Bertrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas (England)
Summerhall
salt.
Selina Thompson Ltd (England)
Northern Stage @ Summerhall
The Believers Are But Brothers
Javaad Alipoor (England)
Northern Stage @ Summerhall
The Shape of the Pain
China Plate, Rachel Bagshaw and Chris Thorpe (England)
Summerhall
Wild Bore
Zoe Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez & Adrienne Truscott, Soho Theatre and Malthouse
Theatre (England)
Traverse
