Total Theatre announces Edinburgh Festival Fringe awards shortlist
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National development agency for contemporary arts Total Theatre has announced the shortlist for its 2008 awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Frank Boyd (Rhett Butler), Kristen Sieh (Scarlett O'Hara) and Jessica Almasy (Margaret Mitchell) in Architecting at the Traverse Theatre Photo: Eamonn McGoldrick
The list of 26 finalists includes The Caravan and Architecting, which have already won The Scotsman’s Fringe First Award, and Stage Must See show How It Ended.
Awards are given in five categories, but a sixth may also be presented at the discretion of the judges, to an artist, company or venue which has made a significant contribution to either the festival or the development of theatre. Winners will be announced at Edinburgh bar GHQ on August 21.
The finalists of the Total Theatre Awards 2008 are:
Experiment and Innovation
- Enclosure 44 - Humans by Janis Claxton Dance (Edinburgh Zoo)
- The Factory by Badac Theatre Company/Escalator East to Edinburgh (Pleasance Courtyard)
- Once and For All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen by Ontroerend, Goed, Kopergiettery and Richard Jordan Productions (Traverse)
- Paper Cinema by Night Flyer and Kora (Forest Fringe)
- The Office Party by Underbelly Productions and Assembly (Udderbelly’s Pasture)
- Wanderlust by Anonymous Ensemble (Underbelly)
Graduate Company
- Crocosmia by Little Bulb Theatre (The Space on the Mile @ The Radisson)
- How It Ended by You Need Me (C Cubed)
- ID by HuNuNunMul at the InvAsian Festival (Club West @ Quincentenary Hall)
- 21:13 by Dancing Brick (C Soco)
Story Theatre
- Before We Remember by Gomito Productions (Bedlam Theatre)
- Cloudcuckooland by The Onassis Programme, Festival Highlights (Pleasance)
- How The Giraffe Got Its Neck by Tall Stories (C Too)
- The Man Who Planted Trees by Puppet State Theatre Company (Scottish Storytelling Centre)
- Slick by Tron and Vix Motus (Traverse)
- The Zawose Family by RealWorld (The World @ St George West)
Visual Theatre
- Circus Oz by 30 Birthday Bash (Assembly Hall)
- The Idiot Colony by Redcape Theatre (Pleasance Dome)
- Hamlet Episode by Daeg City Modern Dance Company (Rocket@Roxburghe Hotel)
- Mime for Laughs by Mono Mime Comedy Theatre (Hill Street Theatre)
- Polaris by Adriatic: Vojta Svejda, Benes-McGadie (Zoo)
Young Company
- Architecting by The Team and the National Theatre of Scotland Workshop (Traverse)
- The Caravan by Look Left look Right (Pleasance Courtyard)
- Holdin’ Fast by Dot 54 (Zoo Southside)
- In a Thousand Pieces by Paper Birds (Gilded Balloon Teviot)
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