Vanishing Points

Overview
Dates
People
Gallery

A site-specific collaboration, performed in the evocative setting of the historic German Gymnasium in King’s Cross. Vanishing Points is an exploration of immigration, deportation and conflict.

Commissioned for the John Berger: Here is Where We Meet season. Presented by artevents in association with Complicité.

Supported by The Moose Foundations

Dates

German Gymnasium, Kings Cross

People

Creative Team

Written by
John Berger & Anne Michaels
Directed by
Simon McBurney
Sound
Neil Alexander & Gareth Fry
Projections & video
Sven Ortel, Lorna Heavey

Cast

John Berger
Susan Lynch
Meredith MacNeill
Simon McBurney
Clive Mendus
Anne Michaels
Paul Rhys
Juliet Stevenson

Gallery

A couple embrace in the light to the right of the stage, while there are shadowy figures in darkness to the left and a grey clock projected on the back of the stage

An actor sits in darkness sitting ruefully at a desk and looking sideways at the audience, while the upper back stage is lit with a dark blue light

Two actors climb and tumble down ropes hanging from the ceiling, while several other actors watch them

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