COMPANY POLICY

Company Statement
Grid Iron is committed to producing exciting new ensemble work across Scotland in a variety of spaces and locations, with a special commitment to accessibility, entertainment and innovation.

We operate a cross-disciplinary, collaborative structure that allows the involvement of artists and production crew from various media at all stages of the creative process.

Grid Iron recognises the need for professionalism in business practice, an attitude embodied in the practical and artistic collaboration of producer and director.

Policy Statement

  • Grid Iron is committed to new writing in Scotland
  • Grid Iron produces cross-disciplinary work which is exciting, innovative and accessible
  • Grid Iron creates a flexible structure, enabling scripts to be developed through workshops and rehearsed readings
  • Grid Iron has a commitment to providing opportunities for theatre workers early in their careers
  • Grid Iron aims to provide strong roles for women on and off stage
  • Grid Iron is committed to a policy of Equality of Opportunity

REVIEWS

"one of those perfectly-scultped theatre events in which every element seems to glow with an inner sense of beauty and meaning.as rich, beautiful and completely satisfying an 80 minutes as you are ever likely to experience."
Those Eyes, That Mouth The Scotsman 2003

"Those Eyes, That Mouth provides evidence of Grid Iron´s leading role in the movement to redefine our understanding of the theatrical.this is contemporary theatre at its very best".
Those Eyes, That Mouth Scotland on Sunday 2003

"Grid Iron utilises the full workings of the Proscenium Arch to the max in one of the most heart-breaking elegies to emanate from Scotland for some time. Ben Harrison's production is ambitiously and exquisitely realised, scaling new theatrical heights"
Variety The Herald, EIF 2002

"Grid Iron has done it again. In another thrillingly intelligent site-specific production the company has crafted an astonishing piece of theatre. Every detail is perfect, each performance is extraordinary". Fermentation The Guardian, 2002

"Utterly convincing and utterly brilliant - I'd run away and join Grid Iron tomorrow".
Decky Does a Bronco Irish Times, 2001

"A truly splendid young company, Grid Iron has produced among the most startling theatre we have witnessed over the last five years. Concentrating on site-specific promenade theatre, the company has brought audiences to new spaces and confronted their expectations about theatre. Joint artistic directors Judith Doherty and Ben Harrison delight in playful and surrealistic visions with a high entertainment factor." The List, 2000

"Grid Iron is unsurpassed in its ability to create site specific work in which there is a perfect marriage of site and subject."
Decky does a Bronco The Guardian, 2000

"The brilliantly inventive Grid Iron company once again manipulate a living environment, to produce theatre that effortlessly breathes straight from the heart."
Decky does a Bronco The Times, 2000


STAKEHOLDERS

Scottish Arts Council, The Arts Council of England, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, City of Edinburgh Council, Glasgow City Council, Theatre Investment Fund, The Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation, Foundation for Sport and the Arts, Post Office, Glaxo Wellcome and charitable trusts Garfield Weston, Matthews Wrightson and D'Oyly Carte.