We opened in Brighton on Wednesday! Fantastic audience reaction to the show, and the first reviews are in. ★★★★ “Daft, ingenious and ultimately deeply thoughtful” Financial Times (print version here) ★★★★ “Brilliantly ridiculous – Inspired pairing of Spymonkey and Tim Crouch” The Stage ★★★★ “The Four Horsemen of the Ridiculypse
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we have collaborated with illustrator and Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell to create THE GREAT SHAKESPEAREAN DEATHS CARD-GAYME. To order please visit https://www.spymonkey.co.uk/shop.html#tcd-cards From Clarence, drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine, to Cleopatra and her asps, from Julius Caesar and the
Spring tour on sale and we’re coming to London! The first week of our final stint of rehearsals is underway, two exciting tour dates announced today and we’ve got a little Chris Riddell teaser…SPRING TOUR ON SALE Our full spring tour is now on sale as we confirm today that we’ll be at PULSE festival in June. Follow the links
This week Aitor and Toby are in Helsinki to adapt the show they created with opera singers Petri and Jouni Bäckström and pianist/composer Jukka Nykkenen, ‘The Fabulous Bäckström Brothers’. April 17th sees the show presented in symphonic version with full 60-piece orchestra, at Theater Hagen, near Düsselsdorf in Germany, details
The Brighton Festival site is now live and booking for festival membership starts tomorrow. Public booking for all festival events opens 26th February. http://brightonfestival.org/event/8123/the_complete_deaths/ Mayfest Bristol is open to bookings now http://mayfestbristol.co.uk/mayfest2016/the-complete-deaths/ Here’s a round-up of press coverage today: ITV Meridian Festival programme news 17-Feb, 6.30pm http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2016-02-17/anderson-stars-as-brighton-festival-launches-line-up-for-its-50th-year/ BBC South East
SPYMONKEY NEWS > 10 Feb 2016 Dear friends, We thought you should be the first to know. We’ve just announced our spring tour dates for The Complete Deaths. Zowee!!! Things are hotting up: We spent a week together in Brighton in January working on set pieces, music and dance numbers with
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/
