December newsletter

  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

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Complete Deaths hits the headlines

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

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Complete Deaths to premiere at Brighton Festival

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

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Rehearsals for Complete Deaths

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

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Mack & Mabel reviews & UK tour

“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

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Petra at the Globe

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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New Wikipedia page

Brighton’s excellently erudite Peter Chrisp has made a superb job of updating our the Spymonkey Wikipedia page: Spymonkey – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. We invite anyone with an interest to contribute additional content.

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July newsletter

Mack & Mabel :: Globe :: Complete Deaths :: US workshops Phew, missus, what a scorcher! To keep your fluid levels up, here’s some gently cooling news from Spymonkey… SPYMONKEY COMEDY DIRECTORS Toby and Aitor are currently directing physical comedy for Chichester Festival Theatre’s new production of Jerry Herman’s classic

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e-Newsletter archives

archive of Spymonkey e-newsletters stretching back into the mists of time for your edification please and thank you. http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=7fb1232ef7925cf924cfe05d6&id=c1999fc476

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