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
YLE, the Finnish national broadcaster, has just announced they have nominated their broadcast of the Fabulous Bäckström Brothers show as the Finnish entry for the Prix Italia TV awards later this year. The show was co-written and directed by Toby Park and Aitor Basauri of Spymonkey. The show received joyous
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
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
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
Directed by Spymonkey’s Toby Park and designed by our very own Lucy Bradridge, we are delighted to see A&E Comedy’s ‘Enter The Dragons’ win a Brighton Fringe ‘Best of the Festival’ award. It’s written and performed by Emma Edwards and Abigail Dooley, who monkeyfans may recall wrote a sitcom pilot
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
“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
