Best of the Fringe Festival 2007 announced
March 4, 2007
Best of the Fringe Festival
2007 announced
The 14th annual New Zealand Fringe Festival has drawn to a close, with the announcements of this year’s Fringe 07 award winners.
Thirteen awards were granted at the award ceremony and closing night party, held tonight at Wellington’s San Francisco bathhouse.
The top award, Best of Fringe 07, went to Hotel, the innovative and critically-acclaimed theatre performance set in the Museum Hotel, produced by site-specific.
“Hotel
was a beautifully slick and well-produced Fringe show,”
said Fringe 07 director Karen Blyth.
“The judges all agreed that Hotel embodied the absolute best of what Fringe 07 had to offer. The site-specific company are a class act and certainly they are a team to watch in future. Well done to Hotel!
“The feedback from the arts community, reviewers and the audience has been that this year’s crop of productions has been of an exceptionally high standard.
“A big thank you to the hundreds of people who participated in Fringe 07 and to the audiences who make it all worthwhile. Roll on 2008 – we’ll be back!”
Twenty-three judges from the Wellington arts community reviewed all 98 productions between them to award thirteen winners and honourable mentions for each category.
The full list of winners and honourable mentions
Fringe 07 Award Winners
BEST
DANCE
WINNER: MOTHTICK by Julia Sadlar and Katie
Burton
Honourable Mention: Chance by Maria Dabrowska and
Alex Leonhartsberger.
BEST MUSIC
WINNER: In the Cube by
STRIKE
Honourable Mentions: Spartacus R in Octophonic by
Brownlight Industries and Plus One
LCUK and Death to Your
Dreams by Sean M Whelan and the Mime Set
BEST VISUAL
ARTS
WINNER: Sounds like Light, Lights and Sound by
Frey
Honourable Mentions: Public Announcement by Mat
Hunkin
Cakes of the 20th Century by the Mens Art
Club
BEST OUTDOOR
WINNER: Gravity and Other
Myths by Fuse Productions NZ
Honourable Mentions: Lovers
of Central Park by Connect Productions
Baby where are the
fine things you promised me? by Winning Productions
BEST THEATRE
WINNER: HOTEL by
Site-Specific
Honourable Mentions: Brain Power by Out of
Bounds
On the Corner by Longcloak Productions
STAND OUT PERFORMER
WINNER: Gavin Rutherford from
HOTEL
Honourable Mentions: Leon Wadham from Brain
Power
Maria Dabrowska and Alex Leonhartsberger from
Chance
BEST COMEDY
WINNER: Return of the
Lonesome Buckwhips by The Lonesome Buckwhips
Honourable
Mentions: Hot Pink Bits by Penash Productions
The Little
Shop of Horrors by Naked Pictures
A Yank in NZ by Dave
Wiggins
MARKETING AWARD
WINNER: Hotel by
site-specific
Honourable Mention: Life As Antigone by
Almost a Bird Theatre Collective
BEST ONE MAN BAND/ SOLO SHOW
WINNER: Porcelain Grin by The Amazing Orange
Tricycle
Honourable Mentions: Letteracy by Tanya
Batt
Arch Enemies and Other Close Acquaintances by Live
in an elevator
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: Brain Power by Out of
Bounds
Honourable Mentions: Imagining Reality by
Babyshads
MOST ORGINAL CONCEPT
WINNER: Cakes of
the 20th Century by The Mens Art Club
Honourable
Mentions: Soundmarks by the Soundnerds
Baby where are the
Fine things you Promised Me? by Winning Productions
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM? Best Newcomer to Fringe
WINNER: Public Announcement by Mat
Hunkin
Honourable Mentions: The Leaning Tower of Penchant
by Back – Lit Productions
BEST OF FRINGE 07
WINNER: HOTEL by site-specific
Honourable Mentions: Gravity and Other Myths by Fuse Productions
ENDS