With Amy Evan's Strike we developed an ensemble style which is larger than life and irreverent towards high realism, featuring extensive doubling, choreographed segues between scenes and a love of ingenious staging mechanics. Seven actors shared more than 30 roles over 23 scenes to tell the story of how a schoolgirl going on "strike" from schoolwork spirals into a national scandal. Amy Evans' Strike received outstanding reviews ("One of the gems of 2001" - The List) and was nominated for a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival.
 

With The Straight Man, a story set in the dying embers of 1950s music hall, we developed a filmic technique where action is continuous and characters are "followed" from scene to scene. For both this play and our only “commercial" production, Stephen Fry's satirical comedy Latin! (2002-3), we experimented with theatrical boundaries and the "fourth wall". The Straight Man jumped from backstage at a Variety theatre to an act performing on-stage; in Latin!, audiences would one moment be voyeurs, the next children in a school room rebuked for their appalling grammar.