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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Enter The Dragons

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

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Big Bang Siegfried

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

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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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Spymonkey comedy direction for Mack & Mabel

Toby and Aitor have directed the physical comedy for Chichester Festival Theatre’s new production of Jerry Herman’s classic Broadway musical Mack & Mabel, starring Michael Ball and Rebecca LaChance, directed by Jonathan Church and choreographed by Stephen Mear. The show premiered 21st July and looks set to follow the success

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