| Helpmann Award for Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production | |
| Presenter: | Live Performance Australia |
| Country: | Australia |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Holder: | The Paper Architect, Davy and Kristin McGuire and Perth International Arts Festival (2015) |
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.
The award typically covers productions of physical theatre, circus, puppetry and other visual theatre.
| 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 |