Helpmann Award for Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production

The Helpmann Award for Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production is a theatre award presented by Live Performance Australia at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001.[1] The Helpmann Awards are Australia's national awards for live performance.

Helpmann Award for Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production
CountryAustralia
Presented byLive Performance Australia
First awarded2001
Currently held byThe Paper Architect, Davy and Kristin McGuire and Perth International Arts Festival (2015)
Websitewww.helpmannawards.com.au

The award typically covers productions of physical theatre, circus, puppetry and other visual theatre.

Winners and nominees

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   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.
Year Title Production company(ies)
2001
(1st)
Slava’s Snowshow Back Row Productions (UK) and International Management Group
Pom Pom Patch Company
Circus Oz Circus Oz
The Hobbit Malcolm C. Cooke & Associates and Ztudio Pty Ltd
2002
(2nd)
Same, Same But Different Performing Lines in association with Sydney Festival
Circus Oz Sydney Season Circus Oz
Puppetry of the Penis Ross Mollison Productions
Stringraphy Ensemble Melbourne Festival in association with Victorian Arts Centre
2003
(3rd)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Fish Windmill Performing Arts
Circus Oz 2003 Season Circus Oz
Still Angela Playbox Theatre
Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters Zen Zen Zo
2004
(4th)
acrobat Melbourne International Festival
Eora Crossing Sydney Festival, Legs on the Wall, Museum of Sydney
H2O - a fantastical voyage Spare Parts Puppet Theatre
2005
(5th)
Compagnie Philippe Genty Vanishing Point Arts Projects Australia
The Lazy Kings Sydney Festival
Provenance Melbourne International Arts Festival and Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes
The Red Tree Queensland Performing Arts Centre's Out of the Box Festival of Early Childhood Learning
2006
(6th)
On the Case Legs on the Wall
Bright Abyss La Compagnie du Hanneton presented by Sydney Festival
PreTender Buzz Dance Theatre
2007
(7th)
Honour Bound Sydney Opera House
The 7 Fingers The Arts Centre
La Clique Spiegletent International presented by Sydney Festival and the Victorian Arts Centre
The Space Between Circa presented by Sydney Festival
2008
(8th)
Mortal Engine Chunky Move presented by Sydney Festival
Au Revoir Parapluie Presented by Sydney Festival
Paradise City Branch Nebula produced by Performing Lines
Secret Cirque Ici presented by Sydney Festival
2009
(9th)
Compagnie Philippe Genty - Lands End Arts Projects Australia
30th Birthday Bash Circus Oz
At First Sight National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA)
Cinderella On Ice Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, Tony Mercer, David Atkins Enterprises and Vladislav Olenin
2010
(10th)
This Kind of Ruckus version 1.0 inc
Africa Malthouse Theatre and My Darling Patricia
Metamorphosis Ten Days on the Island
Traces Arts Projects Australia
2011
(11th)
Not In A Million Years Force Majeure
Propaganda HotHouse Theatre and Acrobat
Shanghai Lady Killer Stalker Theatre presented by Brisbane Festival
Wunderkammer Brisbane Festival presents
2012
(12th)
CIRCA Circa
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik:Deep Sea Explorer Perth Theatre Company presents a Weeping Spoon production
The Man the Sea Saw by Wolfe Bowart SpoonTree Productions
Raoul La Compagnie du Hanneton presented by Perth International Arts Festival
2013
(13th)
S Circa
Concrete & Bone Sessions Branch Nebula and Performing Lines presented by Sydney Festival
It's Dark Outside Tim Watts, Arielle Gray and Chris Isaacs presented by Perth Theatre Company
Murder Erth Visual & Physical Inc, produced by Intimate Spectacle, presented by Adelaide Festival, Sydney Festival & Ten Days on the Island
2014
(14th)
Whelping Box Branch Nebula, Matt Prest & Clare Britton, produced by Intimate Spectacle & Performing Lines, presented by Performance Space & Arts House
A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Dmitry Krymov's Laboratory and Perth International Arts Festival
Circus Under My Bed Sydney Opera House, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus
Opus Circa, a Nuits de Fourvière production/ Département du Rhône, coproduced with Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg, GREC Festival of Barcelona, Le Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf, Düsseldorf Festival, Barbican Theatre, CACCV Espace Jean Legendre-Compiegne, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Brisbane Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and Melbourne Festival
2015
(15th)
The Paper Architect Davy and Kristin McGuire and Perth International Arts Festival
Beyond by Circa Arts Centre Melbourne and Circa
Dislocate's If These Walls Could Talk Marguerite Pepper Productions presented by Melbourne Festival
Tabac Rouge Compagnie du Hanneton presented by Sydney Festival
2016
(16th)[4]
Il Ritorno Brisbane Festival and Circa
Tangi Wai... the cry of water Victoria Hunt, Artful Management and Performance Space
Plexus Compagnie 111 – Aurélien Bory and Perth International Arts Festival
The Last Blast The Farm and Bleach* Festival
2017
(17th)[5]
Snake Sessions Branch Nebula and Intimate Spectacle toured by Arts on Tour
Mermermer Chunky Move
Sediment Company 2
Still Life Dimitris Papaioannou and Sydney Festival
2018
(18th)[6]
TIDE Bleach* Festival and The Farm
Limbo Unhinged Strut and Fret Production House
Carrion Justin Shoulder
White Spirit Zaman Production and Galerie Itinerrance in collaboration with the Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac
2019
(19th)[7]
Out of Chaos... Gravity and Other Myths
PLAYLIST PYT Fairfield
Personal Jodee Mundy Collaborations
Man With The Iron Neck Legs On The Wall

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "About". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Nominees". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Australian Web Archive 2001 Helpmann Awards Nominees". Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Australian Web Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2003. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  4. ^ "2016 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  5. ^ "2017 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  6. ^ "2018 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  7. ^ "2019 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
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