Timeline

With nearly half a century experience creating original productions, IOU has a varied and wonderful history. Use our timeline to scroll back through the years and explore the project archives. 

The IOU shows and projects shown at this initial launch of the timeline, will be added to, to include as much information as possible to create IOU’s complete archive. If you have information or stories connected to any of the past production, please let us know, we would like to hear from you! We would like to eventually include anecdotes and memories of audience members on the timeline.

If you have a specific year you’d like to explore, use the year scroll function on the left. 

1981

A giant puppet narrator is opportune by homemade monsters and a lost Roman legion. A career villain joins a Ford Cortina in a dance with the fishes.

Production

The Trumpet Rat and other Natural Curiosities

First presented

October 1981

Eyepiece II – indoor version for Leicester Festival

 Production

Eyepiece II

First presented

June 1981

Bees attack, the Gun carriage and chorales. A peripatetic tournament presided over by giant eyes

 Production

Eyepiece

First presented

May 1981

A crescent of shops on Bath night. A short-sighted optician’s dog takes liberties as mines are laid in the distance and a full-sized aeroplane hovers over a dodgy takeaway.

Production

Double Geography

First presented

February 1981

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