Lone Twin Theatre

Under the artistic direction of Gary Winters and Gregg Whelan, Lone Twin Theatre launched in 2006. Lone Twin Theatre is focused on developing an approach to narrative-based theatre while retaining the company’s hallmarks of generosity and optimism.

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The Catastrophe Trilogy

Lone Twin Theatre present The Catastrophe Trilogy. Alice Bell, Daniel Hit By A Train and The Festival share a common playful interest in the act of storytelling. Touching, comic and resolutely hopeful The Catastrophe Trilogy is a unique collection of works by an ever-surprising international ensemble.

Alice Bell

‘Absolutely unique...Innovative, challenging and unforgettable.'
Three Weeks, UK

Alice Bell premiered to critical and popular acclaim at KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Brussels, May 2006, before sell-out tours of the UK, Germany, and Norway.

Under the artistic direction of Gary Winters and Gregg Whelan, Lone Twin Theatre launched in 2006.

In three acts with text, music, dance and song, Alice Bell tells the simple story of a woman's life. A fictional character born into a fictional conflict, Alice seeks happiness in a divided land, finding love and companionship but at terrible cost. A tale for our times, Alice Bell offers a portrait of life as an act of hope, life as something to sing and dance about.

‘A fairy-tale of life over death over love over hate. A hope-filled story for the 21st Century.'
De Standaard, Belgium

Created and performed by: Antoine Fraval, Cynthia Whelan, Molly Haslund, Nina Tecklenburg, Paul Gazzola

Artistic Directors: Gary Winters, Gregg Whelan

Dramaturg: David Williams

Original Lighting Designer: Joe Mapson
Re-lights and Production Manager: Rebecca Curtis

Co-commissioned by: Sophiensaele, Berlin; KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Brussels; Farnham Maltings, Farnham; and Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster. Funded by Arts Council England.
Supported by: The Tron, Glasgow, and The German Federal Cultural Foundation.

Daniel Hit By A Train

‘Touchingly comic and oddly moving.'
The Guardian, UK

Inspired by a Victorian collection of 53 true stories about people losing their lives trying to save the life of another, Daniel Hit By A Train tells each tragedy in turn, in all their heart-wrenching, comedic, vaudevillian glory. Sincere, but unafraid to raise a smile to these most selfless of souls, Daniel Hit By A Train stands as a testimony to the human spirit and our abiding need to help each other.

Created and performed by: Antoine Fraval, Guy Dartnell, Molly Haslund, Nina Tecklenburg, Paul Gazzola

Artistic Directors: Gary Winters, Gregg Whelan

Dramaturg: David Williams

Original Lighting Designer: Sarah-Jane Grimshaw
Re-lights and Production Manager: Rebecca Curtis

Special thanks to Cynthia Whelan

Co-commissioned by: Wiener festwochen, Austria; brut Wien, Austria; barbicanbite, London; The Arches, Glasgow; Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster; Farnham Maltings, UK; and Leeds Met Studio Theatre, UK.

Research and development, and touring, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Also supported by The Basement, Brighton.

The Festival

A chain of events discretely alters a private world to devastating effect when two lives cross at a festival of music and song. Told against a backdrop of the here and now The Festival is a simple story of love and expectation, of family and companionship, of the mundane and the extraordinary.

Created and performed by: Antoine Fraval, Guy Dartnell, Molly Haslund, Nina Tecklenburg, Paul Gazzola, Nadia Cusimano

Artistic Directors: Gary Winters, Gregg Whelan

Dramaturg: David Williams

Musical Director: Paul Dale-Vickers

Production Manager/Lighting Designer: Mark Webber / Rebecca Curtis

Commissioners: barbicanbite10, London; Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels; The Point, Eastleigh; Uovo Performing Arts Festival, Milan; and the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Also supported by The Royal Exchange, Manchester; the Corn Exchange, Newbury and The Basement, Brighton.