Vanishing Point (Theatre Company)

Vanishing Point theatre company was founded in Glasgow in 1999 by Matthew Lenton.

Vanishing Point's work has been performed throughout the UK and internationally, at international festivals and venues including Edinburgh International Festival, Buenos Aires International Festival, Santiago A Mil, BOZAR Arts (Brussels), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Stanislavsky Foundation Festival (Moscow), National Theatre of Portugal (Porto) & Brighton Festival.

The company receives funding from Creative Scotland, the National Lottery and Glasgow City Council.

In 2004, it launched Space 11, an initiative aiming to encourage collaboration between young arts organisations in Scotland, by providing them with office space and workshops in order to enhance business skills and create more time for making work.

Formed in 1999 in Glasgow, Scotland by graduates of the University of Glasgow, its first production was an adaptation of Les Aveugles (The Blind) by Maurice Maeterlinck, performed in total darkness. The piece was performed at BAC in London in a season entitled "Playing in the Dark". The company's first major show was in 2004, entitled Lost Ones, a surreal show concerning a man, a murder on a mountain, the little creatures who are smuggling things out of him years later and a void on the other side of the skirting board. Lost Ones went on to tour internationally.

Recent work includes The Destroyed Room (2016), The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler (2014), a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland in association with Eden Court, Wonderland (2012), a co-production with Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Tramway (Glasgow) and Eden Court (Inverness); Saturday Night (2011), a co-production with Teatro Naçional São João, São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Centro Cultural Vila Flor and Tramway; The Beggar’s Opera (2009), a co-production with Royal Lyceum Theatre and Belgrade Theatre in association with Tramway; Interiors (2009), a co‐production with Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Teatro Stabile di Napoli, Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre, developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio (London); Little Otik (2008), a co‐production with the National Theatre of Scotland, in association with the Citizens Theatre; Subway (2007), a co-production with Tron Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith, and Lost Ones (2005 & 2006).

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