SIZE OF COMPANY
10–20 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Matthew Lenton
General Manager
Severine Wyper
Operations Officer
Eleanor Scott
Creative Associate
Sandy Grierson

ARTISTIC POLICY
Vanishing Point creates new theatre for contemporary audiences, working with a distinctive visual language and inventive design. The company aims to imagine and realise exciting, unusual theatre with a strong international perspective.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
A tremendous, thrilling fusion of differences – theatre and music, northern and eastern European attitudes…wonderfully wrenching, reeling folk music…moved me much more than I ever could have expected.
Time Out (Subway)
Vanishing Point's brilliant, visual show is like a living nightmare...it infests the subconcious...wheedles its way into your brain with its mxture of finger and shadow puppetry, weird music and beautiful, macabre images...it looms over you like a monstrous shadow... a wonderfully ambitious and assured hour of expressionistic theatre.
The Guardian (Lost Ones)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Little Otik
A visually stunning adaptation of the surreal film by Jan Svankmajer about a couple who adopt a tree stump in the shape of a baby.
Length: 100 mins, no interval
People: 9 on stage, 17 on the road
Subway
A major international collaboration between an extraordinary seven-piece band from Kosovo. An award-wining and entertaining journey through a landscape a few years from now.
Length: 80 mins, no interval
People: 9 on stage, 12 on the road
Lost Ones
A surreal comic fantasy about a man whose unusual past is coming back to haunt him. Featuring stunning visuals effects, extraordinary design and anarchic live music.
Production includes: Some strong language
Length: 75 mins, no interval
People: 6 on stage, 10 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Interiors
Interiors is set in a place where it stays dark all winter. A group of friends gather for a meal as someone watches them from the cold outside. We see the characters as if through a window, watching them talk, but hearing nothing while a mysterious voice describes their actions. Inspired by a play by Maurice Maeterlinck.
The Beggar’s Opera
A brand new version of The Beggar’s Opera, deliciously dark, twisted and re-imagined for a modern world.

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops are based on each production. In the past it has included page to stage demonstrations incorporating pre and post-show discussions, set workshops on the formation of a piece of theatre through devising techniques and improvisational material with a script, and post show questions & answers session on the production itself with the creative team.  

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2005 Sri Lanka: Lost Ones
2005 Kosovo & Macedonia: Lost Ones
2003 Corsica (France): Invisible Man

TOURING AVAILABILITY
For all productions the touring availability is from June 2009 onwards.