List of Total Theatre Award winners

Total Theatre Awards were first presented in 1997 and are given annually at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to companies excelling in devised theatre, live art, visual performance, mime, puppetry, physical theatre, experimental theatre, dance, clown, circus, street, immersive, outdoor, site specific performance.[1] They are one of a number of awards open to companies/artists presenting work at the festival.

1997
  • Award for Most Innovative overall production - The Right Size - Do You Come Here Often?
  • Audience’s choice award - Acrobat Acrobat
  • Award for Most Innovative International Production - DEREVO - Red Zone
  • Award for Best Use of Design - Co Yvette Bozsik - Hommage à Mary Wigman
  • Award for Most Innovative Touring Production - Fecund Theatre - 27
  • Award for Best Newcomer - K486 - The Trial
  • Lifetime Achievement Award - Steven Berkoff

1999
  • Award for Best Overall Production - Anonymous Society - Jacques Brel
  • Award for Best Newcomer - Metro-Boulet-Dodo - Reunion
  • Award for Best British Production - Ridiculusmus - The Exhibitionists and Yes Yes Yes
  • Award for Best International Production - Theatre Talipot - The Water Carriers and Passage
  • Audience's Choice Award - No Ordinary Angels - Deadly
  • Award for Best Use Of Design - the Young Vic Theatre Co - The Arabian Nights
  • Award for Most Supportive Venue - Continental Shifts at St Brides
  • Lifetime Achievement Award - Ken Campbell and Nola Rae

2000
  • Ariel Teatr - A Little Requiem for Kantor
  • BlackSKYwhite - Bertrand's Toys
  • Generally Better Productions (now known as Theatre O) - 3 Dark Tales
  • Pig Iron Theatre Company - poet in New York
  • Shunt f- The Balled of Bobby Francois
  • Spymonkey - Stiff - Undertaking Undertaking[2]
  • Most Supportive Venue: The Pleasance
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Monika Pagneux

2002
  • Compagnie Fiat Lux - Nouvelles Folies
  • Company F/Z - Throat
  • Nats Nus for Ful
  • Shona Reppe Puppets - Cinderella
  • Theatrum Botanicum - Go Go: The Boy with Magic Feet
  • Wishbone for Scapegoat
  • Most Supportive Venue Award - Aurora Nova
  • Award For Outstanding Excellence And Innovation - DEREVO

2006
  • Inspector Sands and Stamping Ground Theatre - Hysteria
  • NIE {New International Encounter} - Past Half Remembered
  • Hoipolloi - Floating
  • Farm in the Cave - Sclavi/ Song of an Emigrant
Best Newcomers Award
Award for Innovation

2007
  • Award for Best Emerging Company: 1927 - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
  • Award for Best Original Work by a Collective/Ensemble: Rude Mechs in association with Erich Jungwirth and Richard Jordan Productions - Get Your War On
  • Award for Best Physical Performance: Sedari Movement Laboratory in association with AsiaNow Productions - Woyzeck
  • Award for Experimentation: Ontroerend Goed for The Smile Off Your Face
  • Award for Best Small Scale Work: News From Nowhere and the Fruitmarket Gallery - England
  • Award for Significant Contribution: Jos Houben
  • Inaugural Wildcard Award: voted by the viewing public, was awarded to physical theatre and multimedia company Precarious for their show Druthers.


2008
  • Total Theatre Award for Experiment and Innovation: Ontroerend Goed, Kopergiettery & Richard Jordon Productions - "Once and For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen"
  • Total Theatre Award for a Graduate Company: Little Bulb Theatre - "Crocosmia "
  • Total Theatre Award for Story Theatre: Puppet State Theatre Company - "The Man Who Planted trees"
  • Total Theatre Award for Visual Theatre: RedCape Theatre - "The Idiot Colony"
  • Total Theatre Award for a Young Company: THE TEAM & National Theatre of Scotland Workshop - "Architecting "
  • The Total Theatre Award for a Significant Contribution to Physical and Visual Theatre: Footsbarn Touring Theatre

2016[3]
  • Emerging Company/Artist award: (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow, from FK Alexander and One Hundred Homes from Yinka Kuitenbrouwer
  • Physical/Visual Theatre category: Bildraum at Summerhall and Nic Green's Cock and Bull (with Rosana Cade and Laura Bradshaw)
  • Experimentation and Playing with Form: Hot Brown Honey
  • Dance: Happy Hour
  • Circus award: Ockham's Razor: Tipping Point.
  • Significant Contribution Award: Forest Fringe

2017
  • Emerging Company / Artist: Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist by YesYesNoNo at Zoo.
  • Physical/Visual Theatre category: Sigma by Gandini Juggling at Assembly.
  • Circus award: Fauna, Fauna in association with Aurora Nova and Follow the Rabbit (Sweden) at Assembly.
  • Experimentation and Playing with Form: salt. by Selina Thompson Ltd (England) at Northern Stage @ Summerhall. Our Carnal Hearts by Rachel Mars (England) at Summerhall. Palmyra by Bertrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas (England) at Summerhall.
  • Dance: Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus by Oona Doherty (Northern Ireland) at Dance Base.
  • Significant Contribution Award: Lyn Gardner.
  • Judges Discretionary Award: Slap And Tickle by Liz Aggiss at ZOO.

References
  1. Street, 180 High; Edinburgh; Eh1 1qs; Kingdom +44131 226 0026, United. "Awards open to all genres". Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  2. "Total Theatre Awards. Past Winners". Total Theatre. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  3. "Winners of the Total Theatre Awards announced | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
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