We spent last week working at Bird Studios in Brighton, mainly focused on consolidating choreographic routines, musical bits and set pieces. Cleopatra’s dance with the asps is being choreographed by Janine Fletcher, who we first worked together with on Moby Dick, half of Brighton performance/comedy dance duo The Two Wrongies.
Delighted that Laurie Anderson has been announced as guest director for Brighton Festival 2016, with the Complete Deaths heading up the list of major commissions for the 50th anniversary festival. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/07/laurie-anderson-brighton-festival-50th http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-35244744 http://www.whatsonstage.com/brighton-theatre/news/laurie-anderson-guest-director-brighton-festival_39449.html http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2016/01/laurie-anderson-named-as-guest-director-for-50th-brighton-festival/ http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/laurie-anderson-direct-50th-brighton-festival-1536497 http://www.dubainewstime.com/o-superman-artist-to-direct-festival/
Dear friends, We are delighted to announce that The Complete Deaths will have its world premiere at Brighton Festival in May 2016, a co-production for the Festival’s 50th celebrations. Our solemn, sombre and sublimely funny tribute to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death will be on tour from May
The Times on Thursday morning carried a full-page spread on The Complete Deaths, with interviews with director Tim Crouch, and comments from Michael Dobson from the Shakespeare Institute. Without wanting to cast aspersions on the accuracy of any Murdoch news reporting, and whilst appreciating the pre-publicity, we would like to
We are delighted to announce that The Complete Deaths will have its world premiere at Brighton Festival in May 2016, a co-production for the Festival’s 50th celebrations. The production sees a wealth of Brighton talent coming together to work on the show with the Spymonkey ensemble, based in Brighton since
We start the first phase of rehearsals for our new touring The Complete Deaths on Monday! Very excited to be in the same room again, beating the living crap out of each other! Blood baths, maggots, poison dripped in ears, princes jumping off towers, asps. We will be working as
“It’s the Mack-style comedy, though, that steals the show. Re-creations of silent-film scenes, as arranged by clowning company Spymonkey, culminating in the Keystone Cop number Hit ’Em on the Head, are the true beating heart of Mack’s story.” The Observer (read more) CFT’s Mack & Mabel, and in particular Spymonkey’s
Petra is currently on loan to Shakespeare’s Globe in London playing Mistress Overdone in Dominic Dromgoole’s production of ‘Measure for Measure’, his last before he gives up his artistic directorship of the Globe. She is also appearing as Leader of the Furies, Cilissa and Chorus in Adele Thomson’s production of
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