Vanishing Point (theatre company)

A co-production with Napoli Teatro Festival Italia and Tramway, in association with Eden Court. Presented by Edinburgh International Festival.

Wonderland begins with the mystery of a young woman, leaving home and embarking on a dangerous journey. ‘In another moment down went Alice, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.’

Wonderland examines the attraction of fame and stardom, the desire for something more, the allure of the erotic and the invasion of pornography into modern popular culture. It is a mystery about a door that - once opened - is almost impossible to close, a story about curiosity, temptation and power.

That door leads to a dark place, A dark and exciting place But once you open it Once you enter that place You can’t come back Things will not be the same anymore.

A co-production with Teatro Nacional Sao Joao (Porto), Centro Cultural Vila Flor - Teatro Oficina (Guimaraes), Sao Luiz Teatro Municipal (Lisbon) and Tramway (Glasgow).

Saturday Night is the darker, dreamier and more surreal companion piece to Vanishing Point’s show, Interiors.

Saturday Night: Going out night, fun night ... or are you staying at home?

We are watching through the windows of a house, with a garden: different rooms, different people. What unfolds within is a mystery to be pieced together. Who is the young couple recently moved in? What is he doing in the bathroom? Who is that strange presence up above? And what is it that's moving in the garden?

Saturday Night is about the environments we create for ourselves and call home, the dreams we build together, the secrets we keep from each other. It is about the creeping force of nature and the respite we find in the smallest of pleasures.

You see everything. You hear nothing. The clues are there. What is your version of the story?

A co-production with Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in association with Tramway.

A man who loves money, might as well be contented with one guinea, as I with one woman. The future’s here. It’s a brave new world, but wherever there’s a world there’s an underworld: muggers, smugglers, prostitutes, thieves. Nobody plays by the rules, least of all MacHeath – bandit, hedonist, superhero to some, villain to others. In a world of imitators and wannabes, he’s the genuine article. But where he goes, trouble is sure to follow. MacHeath has married Polly Peachum. But he fancies Lucy Lockit. Lucy Lockit fancies MacHeath, but Polly doesn’t want to share. Mr Peachum wants MacHeath’s head, so does Mr Lockit. And the law. With so many enemies, it’s hard to tell who your friends are. John Gay’s 18th century play, The Beggar’s Opera has been reconfigured into our not too distant future.

The production featured live music from Alasdair Macrae and A Band Called Quinn.

A co-production with Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli and Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre. Interiors was developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio.

Behind a window, in a cosy room, a group of friends gather for a meal. The lamps are on, everyone is happy. Talk begins and stories unfold around the table, stories about the living and the dead, about missing necklaces and what happens when people get hungry. Secrets emerge. Lies are exposed. Outside someone is watching. This production is inspired by Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck’s astonishing play, Interior. Utterly hypnotic, deeply mysterious and powerfully intense, Interiors is about sounds, silence, the path of fate and the darkness outside the window.

Interiors is a multi-award-winning production. Since 2009, Interiors has been performed at Buenos Aires International Festival (Argentina), Santiago A Mil (Chile), Stanislavsky Foundation Festival (Moscow), Brighton Festival (UK), BOZAR (Brussels, Belgium), Teatro Storchi (Modena, Italy), Teatro Eliseo (Rome, Italy), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, France), Tramway (Glasgow, UK), Unity Theatre (Liverpool, UK), Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Wales, UK), Eden Court (Inverness, UK), Platform (Glasgow, UK), Tron (Glasgow, UK), The Lemon Tree (Aberdeen, UK), macrobert (Stirling, UK), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh, UK), Lyric Hammersmith (London, UK) and Teatro Sannazaro (Naples, Italy).

A Vanishing Point and National Theatre of Scotland co-production, in association with the Citizens Theatre.

A couple, desperate but unable to start a family, develop an intense relationship with a tree stump carved to look like a baby. Believing it to be real, gradually their obsession brings the stump of wood to life. As the fixation grows, so does the ‘baby’ along with its monstrous appetite. Not content with baby food, it eats the family cat and then the postman. Things get stranger when the social worker arrives to see what’s going on. Taken from the wonderfully twisted imagination of cult Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, Little Otik combines dark humour, surreal horror and an unnerving but tender family story.

A co-production with the Tron Theatre Glasgow, commissioned by The Lyric Hammersmith and supported by NTS Workshop. A major international collaboration between Vanishing Point and a seven-piece band from Kosovo.

‘Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.’

(Banksy)

The future. Patrick Dugan, or Scruggs to his friends, returns to his home city. He is here to have a proper adult conversation with his father, but finds himself in a world he no longer recognises. Things have changed: the neighbourhood, the people, even Porters Bar. The rich are taking over, the locals retreating into the shadows. But worst of all, Scrugg’s dad has gone missing and shacked up in the notorious ghetto Platinum Point. As tensions rise in the city and the wheels of underground revolution begin to turn, Scruggs begins a dark, comical, musical adventure to reconcile himself with his father.

Subway is a journey through a landscape a few years from now, a show about small acts of rebellion and where they lead.