SIZE OF COMPANY
7–12 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors
Joseph Alford
Carolina Valdés
Producer
Simon Zimmerman
Company Manager
Rosie Kelly

ARTISTIC POLICY
Theatre O has been creating original work on an international platform since 2000. The company’s aim is to make inspiring, visceral, and imaginatively potent theatre for the diverse audiences of today. Combining text, action, music, rhythm, sound, and dance, the company searches through interdisciplinary collaboration for the ideal theatrical representation of the human story; lifting productions out of the theatre and into the realms of the imagination.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
The kind of theatre you long for.
The Observer
Unmissable: a near-perfect modern rendering of The Brothers Karamazov in cabaret form. Hard to imagine, but close to breathtaking.
Sunday Independent (Delirium)
Theatre O had me lost in admiration.
The Times (3 Dark Tales)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
DELIRIUM
A free and outrageous adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ultimate novel, The Brothers Karamazov. Created by Theatre O and written by multi-award winning playwright Enda Walsh (Chat Room, Disco Pigs, The Walworth Farce). Weaving together text, grotesque puppetry, dance, animation and song, this is the hilarious and brutal story of the fight between good and evil where the battlefield is the human heart.  It is a story of hope. DELIRIUM is a co-production with the Barbican (London) and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin).
Includes strong language and sexually explicit content. (130 mins including a 20 mins interval, 7 on stage, 12 on the road)
The Argument (a family portrait)
About family loss, the death of a mother and the effect on those that remain, an optometrist who cannot see, a radio announcer incapable of communication, an auctioneer who will not listen and an air stewardess desperate to provide love, support and light refreshment in three languages.
90 mins, 4 on stage, 7 on the road.
3 Dark Tales (a tragic-comedy in 3 movements)
With Keatonesque slapstick, Marx Brothers-ish filmic hyperbole, big dance numbers and language as never heard before, 3 Dark Tales presents the interwoven, darkly comedic stories of three office colleagues whose lives are in the advanced stages of disintegration.
100 mins, 4 on stage, 7 on the road.
Astronaut (a domestic odyssey)
The story of an awakening, of exploring universes, of discovery, adventure and other activities for the living room. This is the story of X, an astronaut who never goes to space.
90 mins, 4 on stage, 8 on the road.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
IMPERIUM
A large scale work inspired by Ryszard Kapuscinski’s book of the same title. An epic story of love and absurdity in a world where nothing is what it seems.

WRAP-AROUND
Theatre O’s workshops aim to re-empower the actor by putting him/her at the centre of the creative process. By taking simple stories, Theatre O examines the essential elements that make it possible for us to interpret these narratives and moments in an exciting, imaginative and theatrical way. Workshops can also take the form of residencies of up to a month. They involve a much more in-depth investigation of the creative process and the development of the actor as creator.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Republic of Ireland: DELIRIUM

TOURING AVAILABILITY
DELIRIUM is available for international touring from spring 2009 onwards.
The Argument is available for international touring from autumn 2009 onwards.