SIZE OF COMPANY
3 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale
Outdoor sites

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors
Gregg Whelan
Gary Winters

Company Manager
Kate Houlden

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
'Humour, gentleness, optimism, hope, friendship, community and soul.' Realtime, Australia

'Wonderful, funny, moving and unassuming, Lone Twin are innocents abroad.' The Stranger, Seattle, USA

'Deceptively artless and freewheeling, absorbing and amusing it's easy to forget that Lone Twin are performers.' The Irish Times

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Alice Bell 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, 8 on the road)

Ghost Dance Two performers, dressed as cowboys and blindfolded, dance a slow line dance for 12 hours. In silence, the two cowboys listen to each other's footsteps, keeping in perfect time. Over the course of the day, audiences spontaneously join the dancing as the faltering, exhausted, cowboys continue. (12 hours, 3 on the road)

Nine Years New performance bringing together the entire body of Lone Twin’s work in one 90-minute show. The heart-shaped topography of Brussels, the shore of Lake Michigan, the entire road network of central Paris, the North Sea, the Arctic Circle, the vineyards of Western Australia, the blue skies of Lisbon’s July and most of Switzerland, will be revisited in a final attempt to make some sense of the world around us. (Under 90 mins, 3 on the road)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
New work (title tbc) Plans are being developed for a Lone Twin project for children, which 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. The current schedule is for work in progress showings in March 2007 and premiere in autumn 2007.

Lone Twin are also developing a number of larger scale public projects.

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Contact company for details.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Germany (Alice Bell/Nine Years), Austria (Nine Years), Belgium (Alice Bell/ Nine Years)
2005 USA, France, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Slovenia
2004 Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Germany, USA, Ireland

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details available on request.