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Image: The Night Shift / Photographer: Pau Ros

Image: Photographer: Pau Ros

MARK MURPHY

Visual theatre, New writing, Text-based: dense

SIZE OF COMPANY
5–9 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Mark Murphy

ARTISTIC POLICY
Mark Murphy is a writer, director, filmmaker and movement specialist. As founder of Vtol Dance Company, he directed seven major shows – touring the UK and Europe. He co-directed two acclaimed theatre productions for Northern Stage – and . Mark Murphy has written three plays and two screenplays, including the award-winning , and directed site-specific shows for the opening of the Manchester and Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Recently he has directed two shows for the National Theatre of Scotland. 2008 sees him directing the opening outdoor show launching the Liverpool European Capital of Culture.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Independent on Sunday ()

Sunday Times ()

Herald Sun, Australia ()

CURRENT PRODUCTION
Ever dreamt you were dreaming? We each spend 25 years asleep, yet no one really knows why we dream. A visual play about one woman’s fight not to find her father. (90 mins, 2 on stage, 5 on the road.)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Two worlds, one mid-air collision. An air traffic controller, a pilot and one catastrophic crash. A wife, a husband and one almighty breakdown. (4 on stage, 7 on the road.)

(working title) Five climbers lie trapped in a blizzard at 26,000 feet. While they contemplate probable death, tempers fray and their private thoughts spiral into hurricane force winds. A large-scale outdoor show for aerial performers/climbers/actors and projected film, music and voice-over, staged on a specially constructed vertical surface. (30 mins, 5 on stage, 9 on the road.)

WRAP-AROUND
Post–show discussions, workshops and residencies.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Australia, Singapore

TOURING AVAILABILITY
from March 2008.
and from late 2008

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