SIZE OF COMPANY
3–8 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium and outdoor sites

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Gary Winters
Artistic Director
Gregg Whelan
Executive Director
Kate Houlden
Producer
Catherine Baxendale
Producer
Sadie Cook

ARTISTIC POLICY
Lone Twin produces theatrical and arts-based events for a variety of locations and contexts. Committed to creating entertaining and hopeful works, projects range from durational performances and community events, to stage and studio presentations.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Impossible to pigeon-hole, crosses boundaries and brings people together.
The Guardian (Spiral)
They perform the impossible task of captivating the audience with what becomes as much a physical exploration of storytelling as of heroism.
The Stage (Daniel Hit By A Train)
A hope-filled story for the twenty first Century.
De Standaard, Brussels (Alice Bell)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Alice Bell
The internationally celebrated Lone Twin Theatre brings to life the simple story of Alice Bell, a fictional character born into a fictional conflict. In a tale for our times, Alice seeks happiness in a divided land, finding love and companionship but at a terrible cost. Part musical, part fairy-tale, Alice Bell offers a portrait of life as an act of hope, life as something to sing and dance about.
75 mins, 5 on stage, 8 on the road, some strong language.
Daniel Hit By A Train
Inspired by a Victorian collection of 53 true stories about people losing their lives trying to save the life of another, Daniel Hit By A Train tells each tragedy in turn, in  all their heart-wrenching, comedic, vaudevillian glory. Sincere but unafraid to raise a smile to these most selfless of souls Daniel Hit By A Train stands as a testimony to the human spirit and our abiding need to help each other.
75 mins, 5 on stage, 8 on the road
Speeches
A large-scale public project whereby members of the public collaborate with a professional speech writer to create proclamations based on their knowledge and experience of a particular location. Each highly subjective and personal speech will be given as a public performance and sited in the location to which it refers.
Duration variable, 4 on the road
Spiral
Onto a map of a given location, a spiral is drawn, a path cutting through offices, apartments, cafés, schools, museums and theatres. Over the duration of the project an attempt is made to walk the spiral's impossible path, following it through walls and under doors. The difficult journey is further challenged by the donation of objects, unrestricted in size or nature, by people encountered on route.
Duration variable, 3 on the road
Town Crying
Drawing on the tradition of town criers announcing – in the form of a public pronouncement – local news, events and other matters of commercial and legal interest. Working with an official town crier, Lone Twin create a series of texts to be ‘cried’ across various locations of a city and its surrounds. These draw on micro-local events and are built from a period of research in the exact location where the text will be eventually cried.
Duration variable, 4 on the road
Ghost Dance
Two performers, dressed as cowboys and blindfolded, dance a slow line dance for twelve hours. In silence the two cowboys listen to each other's footsteps, keeping in perfect time. Over the course of the day members of the public spontaneously join the dancing as the faltering, exhausted, cowboys continue. A unique community event.
Duration variable, 3 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Beastie
A Lone Twin project for children promises to offer a unique experience for a young audience. Based around the notion of a mysterious beast living in their town, the work is aimed at empowering children; they become the keepers of a magical secret, a secret that confuses and confounds the adult world. Beastie will be available for touring at the end of 2009.
Working Day
Working Day is a public project that creates a video portrait of a host community; in this case a community at work. It surfaces hitherto overlooked or almost invisible networks and brings together people from various backgrounds and vocations whose paths cross on a daily basis. Working Day will premier in 2009.
Lone Twin Theatre Third Piece
Situated within a body of ensemble performance making that foregrounds the biographical, the life story, this piece will continue and extend the territory of our previous two works Alice Bell and Daniel Hit By A Train. We will begin the making process with a pre-existing play text, focusing on a single character, potentially a well-known one. This piece will be premiered and all three Lone Twin Theatre productions thus far will be presented, during a run for the Barbican’s Bite 2010 series.
The Dance Project
Commissioned by HOME Live Art a major community dance project will be produced across three regions of the UK in 2009. Lone twin will work with a Choreographer and Musical Director, developing a system and passing an accumulating dance through communities and households.

WRAP-AROUND
Lone Twin Theatre workshop
This workshop, given by members of the company, explores the various approaches to narrative employed in the making of Alice Bell and Daniel Hit By A Train. The company’s internationally celebrated practice operates through an expansive relationship to working with narrative, one that moves away from ideas of character and plot and towards narrative elements working in a procedural sense, as a score to speech and movement and as formal performance activity; the telling of story by a gathered ensemble of performers to a gathered audience. Aimed at participants who have seen either or both Alice Bell and Daniel Hit By A Train this workshop is suitable for those studying, or those with an interest in Theatre, Contemporary Performance, Live Art and other contemporary visual practices.
Available as an ‘off the shelf’ half or full day session.
The Lone Twin Speakeasy  
This is an extended workshop designed for students and artists within Theatre, Contemporary Performance, Live Art and other contemporary visual and live practices. Modelled on Lone Twin’s extensive use of conversation as both a collaborative methodology and performance modality this workshop offers an extended and focused space in which participants, either individually or in small groups, can discuss and share their practice with the company’s artistic directors Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters.
Activities and exercises undertaken on the workshop will be guided by, and tailored to, one-to-one discussions– rather than been built around pre-planned exercises. Instead the Speakeasy listens and responds to the participants’ needs and wishes..
The Speakeasy requires a minimum of a full day can extend to 3 days of working together before entering the remote stage.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Spain: Alice Bell
2008 Austria, Germany: Daniel Hit By A Train
2008 USA, Switzerland: Nine Years
2008 Australia: Newsboys
2007 Norway: Alice Bell
2007 Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, USA: Nine Years
2007 Portugal: Ghost Dance
2006 Germany, Belgium: Alice Bell
2006 Germany, Austria, Belgium: Nine Years
2006 Germany: Ghost Dance

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Please contact the company for touring availability.