SIZE OF COMPANY
2–45 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Executive Producer
Richard Sobey
Artistic Director
David Wheeler
General Manager
Mel Rix
Studio Technician
Dan Powers

ARTISTIC POLICY
Internationally renowned IOU asserts the importance of the imagination and curiosity through a distinctive combination of performance and visual arts, which encompasses site-specific events, touring theatre productions, installations, and exhibitions staged in a variety of venues.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
As usual, a quite wonderful piece of experimental theatre that kept the packed house rapt for an enthralling seventy minutes.
South Echo (Waylaid)
Cleverly constructed multimedia events, professionally executed by an excellent cast of talented actors and musicians.    
The Stage (Cure)
The ever adventurous IOU’s new show is visually audacious. Waylaid is recommended to anyone who has tired of predictable theatre.
The Stage (Waylaid)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Long Division  
A sound installation for gardens and parks; a reflection upon the in-between time of twilight, beginning as the clock chimes the hour with a sequence of sixty hushed exchanges, timed to the divisions of the clock.   
3 people to install
Eye Witness
Video installation for galleries, unusual spaces or festivals. Witness darkly humorous scenes of mortal danger embedded into a building or projected onto the walls, floors and ceilings around you.
2 people to install

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Electric Fields
A new installation exploring the ideas of myth and reality, migration, isolation, journey and the Moon and drawing on IOU’s artistic director’s recent 3 month residency in Antarctica.   
Polarity   
A new large scale performance with installation taking place across an entire city, linking the various environments and involving the audience in a physical and mental journey between them. The work will include site specific animated installation, outdoor events and work for large indoor venues all shown together in an integrated presentation.  Includes video sculpture, mechanical installations and live performance.

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops (making devised theatre, touring devised theatre, managing a theatre company, strategic planing for combined art), pre/post-performance discussions, residencies, masterclasses, talks, lecture demonstrations, seminars. For artists, practitioners, programmers – aged 16 years +
Training in devising and artistic development and project management plus audio visual lectures on making of shows. Professional development opportunities for emerging artists.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 China: Eye Witness

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All work available 2009, 2010, 2011