The Second Coming
St Rollox Locomotive Works, Glasgow
1990
Quoted by many as the highlight of Glasgow’s reign as the “City of Culture” 1990, the event took over a working locomotive yard the size of two and a half football pitches. Scripted by Neal Ascherson (Independent On Sunday), it included over fifty physical performers, a Test Dept trained drum core and plenty of trains, bogeys, cranes and snowploughs… a serious and ironic comment on Thatcher’s obsession with turning Britain into an industrial theme park - a disneyesque version of our working history.
“A spell-binding original and daring work - see it at least twice” (The List)
“The Second Coming is presented in a manner bound to arouse debate… it will certainly pull in a wide, non-theatrical audience” (The Independent on Sunday)
Past Projects
- HALF LIFE Kilmartin Glen, Argyll
- Glow Newcastle, Gateshead’s Festival of Light
- Radiance Glasgow Festival of Light 05
- The Storr: Unfolding Landscape The Old Man of Storr, Trotternish, Skye
- The Hidden Gardens Tramway Arts Centre, East Pollokshields
- Fall From Light Burns And A’That Festival
- Glasgow Lighting Initiatives Long term lighting projects, Glasgow
- The Gimmick The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
- The Path Glen Lyon, Perthshire
- Grand Central Grand Central Hotel, Central Station, Glasgow
- Expo ’98 – National Day for Britain Lisbon, Portugal
- The Secret Sign Finnich Glen, Drymen
- Virtual World Orchestra Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
- Pain Touring Theatre Production
- Stormy Waters Meadowside Granary, Glasgow
- The Silent Twins The Old Partick Police Station, Glasgow
- Soundworks The Arches, Glasgow
- Sabotage The Tramway, Glasgow
- The Soul Machine Dowanhill Church, Glasgow
- The Second Coming St Rollox Locomotive Works, Glasgow
- Beltane Fire Festival Carlton Hill, Edinburgh