Profile on: Vanishing Point

Creating new theatre for modern audiences

Vanishing Point creates new theatre for modern audiences, which tours around Scotland, the UK and internationally. It is a theatre of evocative stories told through a distinctive visual language, combining an often physical performance style with inventive design and animation.

Subway at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Vanishing Point has an exciting new show in 2007's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Subway is a journey through a landscape a few years from now, a show about small acts of rebellion and where they might lead.  Told to the tune of a seven-piece band; it is part storytelling, part gig, part theatre. The main character tells his story to the audience in monologue form. In the present tense, his day begins to unfold. The performer physically evokes the world around him from his bedroom to the streets of the city. He is supported by the music and his fellow performers whose voices evoke the other characters in the story. Text and music weave together. The music and the musicians are characters as well as sound, tune and atmosphere.

2032. Traffic clogs the skies and cash is almost extinct. The notorious DoorCorps corporation protects people from the world outside by confining them in their apartments.

In one such apartment lives Scruggs. Marked by the authorities since birth as a candidate for crime, all he needs to do is not get into trouble. In his world, that's not as easy as it seems.

Today, Scruggs decides he will no longer be a victim. He begins a dark, comical and musical adventure to reconcile himself with his father, righting the wrongs along the way.

Subway is a co-production with The Tron Theatre, Glasgow, commissioned by The Lyric Hammersmith, London, and supported by National Theatre of Scotland Workshop. It is a major international collaboration between Vanishing Point and an extraordinary band of Kosovan based musicians. Subway is conceived and directed by Matthew Lenton, features performance by Sandy Grierson and Ros Sydney, design by Kai Fischer, musical direction by Aly Macrae music played by Flamur Lokaj, Festim Fanaj, Adorel Haxhialj, Mohammed Al-Khazali, Artan Rexhepi, Astrit Stafai, Ferdi Fanaj and dramaturgy by Nicola McCartney.

Subway is showing at Traverse 3, The Drillhall, 41 Forrest Road during the Fringe Festival from 14 - 26 August. Tickets can be booked at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe website, or by calling Traverse Theatre on 0131 228 1404. Following the Fringe run, Subway will show at: The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, Mon 3 September  01224 642230 Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Tue 4 – Sat 8 September 0141 552 4267 Lyric Hammersmith, London,  Tue 11 – Sat 29 September (excluding Mondays)   08700 500 511