Pleasance, Traverse & Forest Lead Total Field

In terms of venues, the Traverse continues a successful year with five nominations, whilst the Pleasance (Dome and Courtyard) boasts six nods. Forest Fringe, the free “miniature festival within a festival” produced at the Forest Cafe, gets four nominations, three of them in the Innovation/Interaction/Immersion category.

The Total Theatre Awards were established in 1997 to recognise those “pushing at the boundaries of traditional theatre” at the festival. Awards supporters include barbicanbite09, the London International Mime Festival and the Central School of Speech and Drama.

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TOTAL THEATRE AWARDS SHORTLISTS

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 by Beady 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 There Is 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’s Trilogy (UK-Made in Scotland) presented by St Stephens Church

Power Plant presented by Mark Anderson, Anne Bean, Jony Easterby, Kristen Reynolds and others (UK) – Royal Botanical Gardens

The Little Box of Horrors presented by Bootworks & Forest Fringe (UK)

Wondermart presented by Rotozaza (UK) – Forest Fringe

PHYSICAL/VISUAL THEATRE

A Lot of Nerve presented by Martha & Arthur (UK)
– Pleasance Dome

C!rca 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

MUSIC & 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

The winners of the Total Theatre Awards 2009 will be announced in Edinburgh on Friday 28 August 2009.

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