Vanishing Point

30/10/2026

Over the past several months, we've been working with a group of organisations and artists from theatre, dance, circus and live art, as well as entrepreneurs in music and food. Our mission has been the foundation of a new space: a home that nurtures the creation of contemporary, ambitious, international performance and a meeting place for artists and audiences. This kind of space does not exist in Scotland, but the artists and audiences do. Our group put in an expression of interest for 350 Sauchiehall Street (the former CCA), but we have decided not to proceed with a Final Bid. Please see our open letter to Creative Scotland on Vanishing Point's website, detailing why the bidding process was not compatible with our vision and inviting Creative Scotland to work with us in a different way, to envision a new creation space and artistic hub in Glasgow.

28/10/2026

📣🐒 The internationally acclaimed Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey 品川猿の告白 returns for a Scottish and international tour in 2027. 📣🐒

Step into the surreal world of Haruki Murakami in this multi-award-winning production, created by Matthew Lenton and Sandy Grierson, and featuring a cast from Scotland and Japan.

When an ordinary woman forgets her own name and a traveller encounters a beer-drinking monkey who speaks 'human language', reality begins to shift in unexpected ways.

★★★★★ "A gorgeous fusion of style and substance" – The Herald
★★★★★ "Stunning" – The Scotsman

Scottish dates are on sale now, vanishing-point.org/shinagawa-monkey-27
📍 Beacon Arts Centre, 11-12 Mar (Previews)
📍 Tramway, 18-21 Mar (limited earlybird tickets available)
📍 Traverse Theatre, 26 Mar-3 Apr
📍 Dundee Rep Theatre, 8-10 Apr

After our Scottish dates we will be travelling across Europe with the Monkey, to Berlin, Paris and Naples, and then returning to Japan, where it all began, for a three city tour. Dates and venues for these shows will be announced in the coming months.

Presented in partnership with Beacon Arts Centre (Greenock) and The Japan Foundation 国際交流基金 .

Monkey illustration: Chitose Kato. Poster design: Niall Walker, with thanks to Kenji Asazuma

25/08/2026

05/08/2026

Make sure not to miss Nesting by Peter McCormick and Trolley Problem at this year.

A darkly comic and absurd exploration of love, death and duty. A seagull attempts to coax a man diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) to relinquish his body to him and grant him eternal peace.

The team have been rehearsing at Vanishing Point's space in Glasgow ahead of their run.

🎟 Find out more - www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/nesting
📍Old Lab, Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh
🕓 4:30pm
⏱️ 1 hour
📆 August 6-31 2026 (exc. 18, 25)

Matthew Lenton, Artistic Director of Vanishing Point said, “Trolley Problem is a brilliant young company, which matches its artistic ambition with a desire to engage and entertain audiences. Their work combines political and social provocation with formal invention and extremely high production values, remarkable for a company at such a stage in its development.”

03/07/2026

Trolly Problem who brought Mistro Buffo to our Winter Residency at the Citz, are bringing a new show Nesting by Peter McCormick to this year. A darkly comic and absurd exploration of love, death and duty, a seagull attempts to coax a man diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) to relinquish his body to him and grant him eternal peace.

Matthew Lenton, Artistic Director of Vanishing Point said, “Trolley Problem is a brilliant young company, which matches its artistic ambition with a desire to engage and entertain audiences. In a culture of increasingly generic commercialism Trolley Problem has refreshingly forged its way as a company that can tell socially relevant stories in thrilling, imaginative ways. Their work combines political and social provocation with formal invention and extremely high production values, remarkable for a company at such a stage in its development.”

🎟 Find out more - https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/nesting
📍Old Lab, Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh
🕓 4:30pm
⏱️ 1 hour
📆 August 6-31 2026 (exc. 18, 25)

30/06/2026

Vanishing Point is proud to join Shotput Theatre, Groupwork, Disaster Plan, Mamoru Iriguchi, Superfan, Craig McCorquodale and others in a proposal to transform 350 Sauchiehall Street into a leading centre for the creation and presentation of contemporary performance in Scotland.

This collaborative venture would establish the building as a home for a number of Creative Scotland multi‑year and project‑funded organisations, creating a shared base where innovative theatre, dance and live arts can be developed, supported and showcased. The vision is to build a destination venue for audiences seeking new, technically ambitious and internationally engaged performance and a place where shows can be created for performance elsewhere.

The space would be accessible to a wide community of companies, and independent practitioners, evolving continually as a hub for collaboration, experimentation and artistic growth. It would host a diverse programme of work from resident and visiting artists, positioning itself as a key venue for contemporary performance across the central belt and Scotland as a whole.

350 Sauchiehall Street would also serve as a centre for international exchange, welcoming artists and organisations from around the world to Glasgow. Work created here would travel to venues across Scotland and beyond, strengthening cultural connections and infrastructure nationwide.

“Making theatre is a journey. But making art, or even just really good work, is a journey from the ground up, not the top down. Facilitate work to grow and emerge here and if and when it becomes brilliant, enable it to go further.” - Matthew Lenton, Artistic Director of Vanishing Point

Read the full Herald Article here - www.heraldscotland.com/news/26238386.arts-companies-reveal-bid-reopen-former-cca-building-glasgow/

06/05/2026

Our thoughts on The Herald’s list about ‘powerful people in the arts in Scotland’:

Perhaps the aim of The Herald’s Top 50 list is to provoke discussion about what power is, and whether such power is good? In this respect, proposing such a list is a provocation in itself.

In the current climate, boasting about being in its number seems as tone deaf as one can get, like Malcolm Offord bragging about his cars and boats. ‘Powerful people lists’ represent the way culture and, increasingly, the arts panders to the patterns of celebrity.

Of course, there is a big difference between power and influence. The people who really do the work, make the art, and influence – often the freelancers or innovators at the bottom of the ‘power’ structure - are unlikely to occupy much space on lists like this. Yet these are the people the arts infrastructure in Scotland should be supporting and championing if it hopes to prosper.

Is ‘power’ really what we want to be celebrating?

An interesting perspective is offered by Marissa MacWhirter here: www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/26068942.scotlands-art-scene-shaped-quangos-playwrights/

29/04/2026

Got a bold new idea in visual theatre, puppetry or object-led performance? The Creative Fund is now open. Offering Scottish-based artists up to £5,000, rehearsal space, mentorship and a supported sharing to help you push your project forward.

This year, we’re thrilled to continue our partnership with Vanishing Point, bringing even deeper artistic support and sector connection to selected artists.

Find out more on our website. www.manipulatearts.co.uk
Deadline Thursday 4 June.

Supported through Creative Scotland

22/04/2026

Vanishing Point is delighted to welcome our new Producer, Nina Doherty. 📢🙌

Nina joins the company at an important time, as we plan major international projects and grassroots work in Scotland. We have lots of exciting plans over the next few years, so we're pleased Nina will be joining the team as we continue to evolve and embark on new adventures.

Nina comes to us with 10 years of professional experience in theatre, creative learning and participatory arts, including working with Eco Drama, Independent Arts Projects and BOOM! Community Arts. She has produced several theatre tours, creative learning projects in schools and multi-artform participatory arts projects, including a two year Culture Collective project supporting 6 artists to create projects with and for disabled people of all ages. As well as being driven by supporting artists to create work and reach people in different ways, Nina enjoys contributing to strategic development in collaboration with artistic directors.

📸 Kat Gollock.

18/04/2026

Congrats to the entire team of What I'm Here For, our latest international collaboration. We have had a blast bringing this show to audiences in Denmark and across Scotland! Thank you to everyone who joined us.

Producers - Vanishing Point / Teater Katapult

Staged and Directed by Matthew Lenton
Text by Josephine Eusebius
Set & Costume Design by Mai Katsume
Lighting Design by Simon Wilkinson
Sound Design & Composition by Mark Melville
Dramaturgy by Rikke Frigast Jakobsen
Associate Director Ben Standish
Creative Associate Elicia Daly
BSL Interpreters Karen Forbes & Rebecca Goodall
English to Danish Text Translation / Oversættelse engelsk til dansk Mia Dinitzen

Cast: Mia Dinitzen, Lærke Schjærff Engelbrecht, Aisha Goodman, Aisha Lawal, Charlotte Trier.