With past projects ranging from spectacular site-specific works created with 10,000 breeze blocks, to simultaneous performances across continents using live internet streaming, Station House Opera is an internationally renowned performance company with a unique physical and visual style.
Founded in 1980, the company’s work varies enormously in scale, appearance and location and uses spectacle to explore the intimate relationship between people and the environment they inhabit. They have created projects in locations all over the world, from New York’s Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage to Dresden’s historic Frauenkirche and Salisbury Cathedral, and their Internet projects have spanned continents, with simultaneous performances as far apart as Brazil, Singapore and the UK.
“As stunningly visual as it is visionary.”
Glasgow Herald
“A company that can still be well ahead of the game.”
Guardian
“Station House Opera can’t be described, it must be experienced.”
Die Welt
“Strikingly dynamic, confusing, funny and alarming… unlike any other performance art I’ve seen.”
Frieze
| Date | Title | Venue | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2024 | Dominoes | Malta Festivall | Poznań |
| 21 November 2023 | At Home in Gaza and London | Battersea Arts Centre, London | |
| 25 June 2022 | Dominoes | Corn Exchange | Newbury |
| 13 May 2022 | Dominoes | Norwich | |
| 20 October 2020 | Happy Days: Artists' talk | ||
| 19 October – 2 November 2020 | Happy Days: scenes of self-isolation | ||
| 21 September 2019 | Dominoes | Festival van de Architectuur | Ghent |
| 1 May 2019 | At Home in Gaza and London: Screening | University of Manchester | Manchester |
| 11 August 2018 | Dominoes | Absolutely Cultured | Hull |
| 9–11 July 2018 | At Home in Gaza and London | Liverpool Arab Arts Festival | Liverpool |
| 9–11 July 2018 | At Home in Gaza and London | El-Wedad Society for Community Rehabilitation | Gaza |
| 28 June – 1 July 2018 | At Home in Gaza and London | Battersea Arts Centre | London |
| 15 April 2018 | Dominoes | Zone Artistique Temporaire Festival | Montpellier |
| 12–13 November 2016 | At Home in Gaza and London | Toynbee Studios | |
| 1–2 October 2016 | Dominoes | Festival International des Arts Bordeaux Metropole | Saint-Medard & Bordeaux |
| 3 September 2016 | Dominoes | London | |
| 16 July 2016 | Dominoes | IF: Milton Keynes International Festival | Milton Keynes |
| 20 March 2016 | Dominoes | Festival de Keuze | Rotterdam |
| 6 February 2016 | Dominoes | Arts Centre Melbourne | Melbourne |
| 26 September 2015 | Dominoes | Cluj | |
| 15 August 2015 | Dominoes | Stockholms Kulturfestival | Stockholm |
| 5 July 2015 | Dominoes | Les Tombées de la Nuit | Rennes |
| 14 May 2015 | Dominoes | La Ville en Jeu(x), Mons 2015 | Mons |
| 28 September 2014 | Dominoes | Lieux Publics | Marseille |
| 19 September 2014 | The Spaces of Telematic Performance | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama | London |
| 19 July 2014 | Dominoes | Scenes de Rue Festival | Mulhouse |
| 26 May 2014 | Dominoes | Coventry Mysteries Festival | Coventry |
| 10 March 2014 | Dominoes | Cape Town | |
| 6–22 March 2014 | Dissolved | Beaconsfield (UK) | London and Berlin |
| 16–17 January 2014 | Telematics Performance Workshops | Beaconsfield | London |
| 1 August 2013 | Dominoes | Festival Metropolis | Copenhagen |
| 17 May 2013 | Dominoes | Festival Nord Magnetic | Bailleul & Poperinge |
| 10–25 January 2013 | Roadmetal, Sweetbread | Theatre de la Cité Internationale | Paris |
| 4–5 December 2012 | Mind Out | Aberystwyth Arts Centre | Aberystwyth |
| 4–5 October 2012 | Roadmetal, Sweetbread | Festival Effervescence | Nevers |
| 23 August 2012 | Dominoes | Helsinki Festival | Helsinki |
| 11–13 October 2011 | Mind Out | Theatre 140 | Brussels |
| 19 August 2011 | Dominoes | Mladi Levi Festival | Ljubljana |
| 22 May 2011 | Nowhere | Roundhouse | London |
| 16–17 December 2010 | Mind Out | St Etienne | |
| 18 October 2010 – 22 January 2011 | Dominoes (film) | Aberystwyth Arts Centre | Aberystwyth |
| 26 September 2010 | Dominoes - The Film | Whitechapel Gallery | |
| 25–26 September 2010 | Artsadmin Weekenders: Julian Maynard Smith | Toynbee Studios | |
| 18 July 2010 | Dominoes - The Film | The Rio Cinema | |
| 15 July 2010 | Dominoes | Dijon | |
| 21–22 May 2010 | Backwards | BAC | London |
| 23–30 August 2009 | Mind Out | C venues (Venue 34) | |
| 26 July 2009 | Dominoes | East London | |
| 25 February 2009 | Mind Out | Tramway | Glasgow |
| 13–29 November 2008 | Mind Out | BAC | London |
| 4–5 November 2008 | Mind Out | Warwick Arts Centre | Coventry |
| 1 November 2008 | Mind Out | Pact Zollverein | Essen |
| 28 October 2008 | Mind Out | Exeter Phoenix | Exeter |
| 25 October 2008 | Mind Out | Chapter | Cardiff |
| 23 October 2008 | Mind Out | Lakeside Theatre | Colchester |
| 15 October 2008 | Mind Out | The ShowRoom | Chichester |
| 8–9 October 2008 | Mind Out | Nuffield Theatre | Lancaster |
| 26 September 2008 | Open Rehearsal | Toynbee Studios | |
| 14 May 2008 | Untitled (scratch performance) | BAC | London |
| 19 April – 4 May 2008 | What’s Wrong with the World? | Oi Futuro | Rio de Janeiro |
| 19 April – 4 May 2008 | What's Wrong with the World? | Soho Theatre Bar | London |
| 25 February – 1 March 2008 | SHO Winter School (Lose Your Mind) | New Territories Winter School, Tramway | Glasgow |
| 16–17 February 2008 | Roadmetal, Sweetbread | Festspielhaus Hellerau | Dresden |
| 17–18 December 2007 | Mind Out (scratch performance) | BAC | London |
| 13 May 2007 | One Day Workshop | Battersea Arts Centre | London |
| 8–10 May 2007 | Mind Out (scratch performance) | BURST, Battersea Arts Centre | London |
| 15 April 2007 | The Bastille Dances | Museu Serralves | Porto |
| 8–12 November 2006 | The Other Is You | The Basement, Brighton; Grand Theatre, Groningen, The Netherlands; HAU, Berlin, Germany | |
| 1–15 November 2006 | The Other Is You | The Basement, Brighton; Grand Theatre, Groningen, The Netherlands; HAU, Berlin, Germany | |
| 23–24 October 2006 | Roadmetal, Sweetbread | Nottingham Arts Theatre | Nottingham |
| 23–24 September 2006 | Roadmetal, Sweetbread | Sirens Festival, | Vilnius |
| 17–18 August 2006 | Roadmetal, Sweetbread | Mladli Levi | Ljubljana |
| 14–24 June 2006 | Play on Earth | NewcastleGateshead UNIP, São Paulo, Brazil, 72-13 Singapore | |
| 6–9 April 2006 | Roadmetal, Sweetbread | Fringe Festival 2, | Thessaloniki |
| 4–6 January 2006 | Roadmetal, Sweetbread | Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, France |
