New Spymonkey collaborations

In parallel with getting our Christmas Carol off the starting blocks for Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, (which went on sale to the public last week and is off to a roaring start apparently), Spymonkey are involved in a number of collaborations with companies across the UK over the next few

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Spymonkey GDPR compliance & data policies

Our Data Promise On 25th May 2018, the laws around Data Protection are changing.Spymonkey takes Data Protection seriously. We are committed to protecting your data; letting you know how we collect, store and use your data; and helping you to understand your rights and our responsibilities.Our Data Promise to you

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Spymonkey’s Christmas Carol online booking opens today

Gangway! Run as fast as your hobnailed boots will carry you! Tickets for our major new collaboration with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse go on sale today! It may only be May, the sun’s out, you’ve just donned your best summer hat, put your woolen mitts away in your bottom draw

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Spymonkey announce major new Liverpool Playhouse show

PRESS RELEASE – A Christmas Carol announced for Christmas at the Liverpool Playhouse We are delighted to be able to announce a major new co-production with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse. Spymonkey’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ will play a five-week run at the Playhouse from 8th December  – 12th January. The perfect

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May newsletter

  SPYMONKEY MAY NEWS A couple of big things we’ve been dying to tell you about… BREAKING NEWS: Spymonkey announce major new show We are delighted to be able to announce a major new co-production with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse. Spymonkey’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ will play a five-week run at

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3-Week Clown Creation School launched

We are launching our first ever 3-week course in October, to take place at Toynbee Studios in Aldgate, London.   We’ve been asked frequently by participants of our 5-day workshops whether we could offer a longer course, aimed at taking students deeper into the work and equipping people to make

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The Fabulous Backstroms speak!

Ahead of their UK premiere at The Old Market in Brighton Fringe, Finnish musical clowns Jouni and Petri Backstrom talk about their collaboration with Spymonkey with The Old Market’s Andy O’Connor.   How did you come to make the Fabulous Backstrom Brothers show? What were the starting points? Jouni: It

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Other January News

TOMtech MOTION CAPTURE We had a blast in September this year working at Portsmouth University’s motion capture suite, on a weeklong residency courtesy of TOMtech, the future-proofing wing of The Old Market, and Arts Council England. Thanks to Portsmouth University for letting these old duffers push their technology to the

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Spymonkey Music & Performance workshop in April

Just announced this: I’m going to be leading this week of music, comedy and performance in London, 23rd – 27th April 2018. This is going to be an opportunity to explore music and comedy in more depth than we usually get to work on in our workshops. We’ll look at

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Shakespeare Death Cards published by Chronicle Books

Our Shakespeare Deaths card game, originally self-published by Spymonkey in collaboration with illustrator and Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell, and Tim Crouch, director of The Complete Deaths, has been published in a new colour edition by San Francisco-based Chronicle Books. The perfect Christmas present for fans of Shakespeare and death! They

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