2011
Converging Paths
5 stand-alone but connected pieces of theatre are made for 5 North Yorkshire Arts Festivals throughout 2012. Taken together as a collected piece Converging Paths is an adaptation of the novel, The Ground Remembers- a book based on Slung Low’s 2005 show Time at Moghul Gardens
2011
15 Minutes Live
6 radio plays recorded before an audience with a live band providing the music and the sound effects created in the old fashioned way. With scripts by Alice Nutter, Boff Whalley, Ben Tagoe, Rommi Smith, Aisha Khan and Emma Adams. With I Love West Leeds Festival.
Original Bearings
Over a week 100 stories appeared on lamp-posts throughout Holbeck in South Leeds before an audience were taken on a bus to explore the rumours that there was a crashed spitfire and a gun toting cowboy in the area. Co-produced by the West Yorkshire Playhouse and made with Mark Catley.
Finale
To mark the rebuilding of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre, Slung Low was invited to create a ceremony. Finale combined a sound installation of memories with a procession of actors, musicians, a JCB and a dog with wings.
The Correct Frequency for Stories
A site specific experience created in and for Linton Camp- an old evacuee camp in North Yorkshire. The piece played only 6 times in this isolated location in North Yorkshire. Created for Grassington Festival.
Mapping the City
A 3 hour epic adventure around the city of Hull in 3 parts. Written by James Phillips, Matthew David Scott and Jenny Worton. Commissioned by imove, with Hull Truck and Hull CIty Council. 5 Stars The Yorkshire Post.
Knowledge Emporium Revisited
The Airstream rides again. Now to Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Pulse in Ipswich, The Lyric Hammersmith, The Cube in Corby and The Arc in Stockton. More knowledge, more sweets, more sharing
2010
Christmas Fayre
A Christmas Fayre hosted by Slung Low, Unlimited, Belt Up and Pilot Theatre Companies
Anthology
7 new shows simultaneously taking audiences on journeys around Hope Street, Liverpool. The audience followed characters around the streets never quite knowing where their adventure might lead them next.
A co-production with the Liverpool Everyman.
Knowledge Emporium
A Sweet Shop with a difference. It doesn’t take money- only knowledge. Make an entry in the Big Book of Everything that We Know and help yourself to sweets. Sat on Portobello Road for 2 weeks in July 2010 over 1200 people made entries. With The Gate Theatre and InTransit Festival
2009
They Only Come at Night: Visions
Walk about show made for an underground car park at the Barbican. Vampires come for you and its left to legendary hunter Quinn to try and get you out alive. “...might just be the greatest theatre company around” Time Out. Visions then transferred to Huddersfield in November 2009.
Beyond the Front Line
A large outdoor installation, a requiem for those have given their lives in armed service, a co-production with The Lowry, The Imperial War Museum and the University of Salford. “Make it your duty to experience it” Manchester Evening News
They Only Come at Night Resurrection
The 2nd part of the Vampire Trilogy- part site specific, part installation, part alternative reality game, part graphic novel. Milo launches his new graphic novel about Vampires but uninvited guests threaten to not only disturb the launch, but also the audiences lives!
Last Seen
A Sonic walk-about tour. Co-produced by the Almeida Theatre. Written by Simon Birt, Lolita Chakrabarti and Matthew David Scott. With performances by Lolita Chakrabarti, Francis Lee, Barry McCarthy, Richard Warburton, Lucy Hind and a chorus of 25. “A startling heartbreaker” The Times.
Throughout 2009 Slung Low wrote monthly blogs. Called New Thoughts this archive can be found here
2008
Helium
Winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2008. Theatre installation contained within 5 boxes, combining live and digital performance. Sold out performances 3-20th September 2008. The Barbican Theatre, London. **** The Guardian, Time Out, The Metro. “A delightful show” Daily Telelgraph.
Small Worlds
Theatre installation for young people; can you help Mark find his marbles? Commission from Fuse Theatre with support from Culture Capital Company. “Truly Unique” 9/10 Liverpool Echo.
2007
Slung Low win OSBTT ’08
Underground
Theatre fantasy adventure in which Johnny must escape from an alternative reality based on the Tube Map.
They Only Come at Night
Stir Festival/ Theatre in the Mill commission: murder and vampires on the 12th floor of the NCP car park.
2006
1139 Miles
Supported by ACE/ Theatre in the MIll: the largest group of emerging artists in the UK take over a warehouse space in Bradford City Centre working on digital material collected from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2005
Time at Moghul Gardens
Bradford Festival commission: dance, underwater photography, sound-scape and story-telling in Lister Park. The Ground Remembers, Matthew David Scott’s novel based on the show’s material was published in 2009 by Parthian Books.
2004
Associate Artist Ben Eaton and Alan Lane take the first of two trips to Sarajevo to gather material for 1139 Miles.
2002- 2004
Slung Low continues to tell stories in a variety of spaces and mediums with BOXED (a multi-media clown piece), the Loves of Echo and Narcissus (a radio play) and Phone Calls Home (a photo and sound installation in a cellar).
2001
The company go on to produce Frances Gray’s Perfect Light at the Theatre Workshop and the new musical Castaway Cafe at the National Centre for Popular Music.
2000
Slung Low was created by Alan Lane and writer Matthew David Scott following the success of Counter Balance at the National Student Drama Festival where it won a Sunday Times’ Judges Award.
