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. The Helpmann Awards are Australia's national awards for live performance.
The award typically covers productions of physical theatre, circus, puppetry and other visual theatre.
Winners and nominees
Source:
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) Il RitornoBrisbane 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) Snake SessionsBranch Nebula and Intimate Spectacle toured by Arts on Tour Mermermer Chunky Move Sediment Company 2 Still Life Dimitris Papaioannou and Sydney Festival 2018(18th) TIDEBleach* 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) 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 Helpmann Awards Physical theatre Puppetry
References
External links The official Helpmann Awards website