Vanishing Point

Saturday Night - Tramway, Glasgow, Sat 8 Oct 2011

Vanishing Point's Interiors follow-up explores similar themes but lacks direction

21 Oct 2011

Vanishing Point’s lovely, imaginative 2009 work, Interiors, revolved around a disparate group of characters at a dinner party. As the audience were cast in the role of voyeurs spying through lit windows the scene was played out in complete silence, the…

The reviewers reviewed: Vanishing Point’s Saturday Night

Critical opinion round-up on Matthew Lenton's latest theatre piece

21 Oct 2011

WHAT WE SAID: ‘This follow-up [to Interiors] offers a wordless peek into lit rooms, with intertwining narratives but this piece doesn’t deliver the emotional impact of its predecessor... where Interiors, in its quieter moments, offered a lucid, and…

Saturday Night

Matthew Lenton and Vanishing Point further explore the themes of 2009's Interiors

13 Sep 2011

In 2009, one play dominated the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland. Picking up the gongs for best director, ensemble and production, Interiors by Glasgow’s Vanishing Point was a performance of startling originality. Inspired by a play by Maurice…

The Beggar's Opera

17 Sep 2009

‘Adaptation’ doesn’t even begin to cover this reworking of John Gay’s 1728 ballad opera that satirised the political morality of the day. Retaining physical remnants of the original – the characters, core plot and a smattering of dialogue – Vanishing…

The Beggar's Opera preview

3 Sep 2009

The publicity images for Vanishing Point and the Royal Lyceum’s new adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera don’t look like your average promotional material for a classic work of 18th century satire. In fact, from a first glance, the backlit…

Theatre hitlist

3 Sep 2009

Arches Live! The Arches continues to push performance boundaries with a mouth-watering season of shows, many of them by non-traditional theatre-makers. Arches, Glasgow, Thu 17–Sat 26 Sep. The Cherry Orchard Dundee Rep ensemble turns its…

Interiors

16 Apr 2009

Vanishing Point’s Interiors was inspired by a Maurice Maeterlinck play, but brings to mind Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Avril Paton’s Glasgow postcard favourite ‘Windows in the West’ in its exploration of lit houses as the ultimate free voyeuristic…

Little Otik - Sandy Grierson

22 May 2008

‘It’s a bit of wood!’ ‘That’s my baby!’ ‘It’s a bit of wood!’ ‘My BABY!’ The air in the Citizens’ Theatre is thick with the smell of peat, spread all over the stage where actors Sandy Grierson and Louisa Ludgate are rehearsing what, taken out of…

Playlist

4 Jan 2008

2007 was one wild ride for car-mageddon lovers, with pedal-to-the-metal automobile action featuring extensively in films like The Bourne Ultimatum and Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, which matched a 1969 Dodge Charger against Barry Newman’s 1970 Dodge…

Subway

23 Aug 2007

Perhaps understandably, the number of people who feel pessimistic rather than optimistic about Britain’s future has grown exponentially over the last few years, according to a flurry of recent surveys. This smart and stylish production from Vanishing…

Home Hinderance

8 May 2007

NEW WORK In our current state of hyper reality the boundaries between the real and fiction have lost their clarity. We have an obsession with reality made fiction and problems differentiating between the two, issues addressed by David Leddy in his…