Station House Opera makes works that fit no established forms of theatre or visual art. Each piece develops a unique vision from simple but unclassifiable ideas through collaborations with diverse practitioners with a common interest in the untried and experimental. The work takes artistic risks that can fail but usually not, aimed at a universal audience that wants to experience the new and unknown. This audience is broad and unconfined; local, international and digital.

Since 1980 the company has created over 40 productions with a unique physical and visual style. Fascinated with the contradictory ways human beings conceive and interact with each other and the world, the company finds new ways to use the fundamentals of environment, space, instability, structure, and distance. The work encompasses monumental outdoor sculptural projects, video work, intimate theatre pieces, and productions that link global spaces via the internet.

Of the large-scale architectural performances, The Bastille Dances was a commissioned for the Bicentenary of the French Revolution and produced in five European cities, while the Theater der Welt commissioned Dedesnn nn rrrrrr, a piece marking the wartime destruction of Dresden performed on the ruins of the Frauenkirche. The Salisbury Proverbs was produced at Salisbury Cathedral, while the Piranesi series was recreated for New York, Tokyo and Melbourne. The company was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the Brooklyn Bridge with Drunken Madness, a piece hanging from inside the anchorage, while other flying performances took place in Amsterdam and London.

Dominoes, a domino run made of breeze-blocks is built in a day by hundreds of volunteers. Two to three kilometres long, it passes through many different spaces and communities, connecting the disparate elements that go to make a city. It has been produced across the world since 2009.

Of site-specific video and performance work, Roadmetal, Sweetbread has been reworked for venues across Europe, as well as China, Japan, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Brazil and Taiwan. Snakes and Ladders was played out on the façade of a fire station in Bow, and Mare’s Nest toured Europe. Live From Paradise used video streaming to link three locations in Amsterdam to form a fourth, virtual space; Play On Earth linked Sao Paulo, Singapore and Newcastle, while The Other Is You linked Berlin, Groningen and Brighton.

At Home in Gaza and London was a collaboration between artists in Gaza and in London that challenged the physical and cultural isolation of Gaza as performers came together to share a single, augmented reality. For Extinction Rebellion a bamboo structure was designed to block roads - seeming to defy gravity, it has been used by activists in ten different countries.

Throughout, the company has produced pieces internationally for site-specific, public and theatre spaces, including Natural Disasters, Sex & Death, Cuckoo, Black Works, Limelight, Mind Out and Dissolved, as well as numerous small-scale works.