Die Piraten von Penzance at Volksoper in March 2026

We are delighted to announce our next opera project at the Vienna Volksoper: a new adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan’s THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE. Following the success of ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD which has now enjoyed three sell-out seasons at the Volksoper since its debut in 2023, we are turning

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Aitor on directing ‘For The Love Of Electricity’

‘Rakkaudesta Sähköön’ (‘For The Love Of Electricity’) opened at the Finnish National Theatre on 20th March 2025. Here Aitor reflects on directing Marc Gassot and his creative team. In 2019 Marc Gassot, a physical theatre performer from Finland approached me to direct a solo show for him. It was going

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Insidious Directors’ Note

INSIDIOUS: THE FURTHER YOU FEAR DIRECTORS’ NOTE Well it’s about to head on tour! INSIDIOUS – THE FURTHER YOU FEAR has been such a great joy to work on, partly because it has set us an even greater challenge: How to make the live Insidious event as terrifying, heart-pumping and

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Insidious – The Further You Fear

After keeping this under our hats for nearly a year, today we are announcing our next major Spymonkey production. INSIDIOUS – THE FURTHER YOU FEAR is a live immersive horror experience based on the hit horror film franchise, Insidious. Moving thrillingly beyond more familiar comedic territory, this latest show sees

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Spymonkey opera

We can finally reveal a project we’ve been working on for a while: a Spymonkey opera! Jacques Offenbach’s ‘Orpheus in der Underwelt’, opens January 21 2023 at the Volksoper Vienna, part of incoming artistic director Lotte de Beer’s inaugural season. Directed by Toby Park & Aitor Basauri, design by Julian

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Assistant Director Call-Out

Spymonkey are looking for an Assistant Director to join their small team for research and development phase of our next production, Apocalypse Wow. If you are a director and would be interested in being part of our collaborative, devising process to kick-start the making of a new Spymonkey show please take a look at

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Petra presents VEGASHITSHOW

Hi. Its Petra. The Girl From Spymonkey. Reporting from the frontline in Las Vegas for Spiegelworld’s VEGASHITSHOW, documenting strategies for fellow performers coping in times of Covid. View forth to witness fly-on-the-wall reportage from Sin City, and maybe feel marginally better about where you at right now!? more here:

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The Festival of Broken Stupid Ideas is here!

Please join us on Friday 30th Oct at 6pm UK! In the depths of Lockdown 1.0 we started the Garage of Broken Stupid Ideas, which encouraged artists to come along and get their broken, stupid ideas up on the blocks, and let chief mechanics Aitor Basauri and Toby Park have

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‘Jack Absolute’ at the National Theatre

We are delighted to announce that Spymonkey’s Toby Park will be working as Physical Comedy Director for ‘Jack Absolute Flies Again’ at the Olivier, Richard Bean and Oliver Chris’s new adaptation of Sheridan’s The Rivals, directed by Thea Sharrock. https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/jack-absolute-flies-again

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