Front Row BBC Radio 4

Interview with Spymonkey’s Toby Park and Complete Deaths director/adapter Tim Crouch, recorded at Brighton Theatre Royal/Brighton Festival 10th May 2016.

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More brilliant reviews

Rave reviews keep coming for The Complete Deaths: ★★★★ “Poignant and hilarious – a fabulous bloodbath” 4 stars from The Observer (full print version here) “Extraordinary. Brilliant virtuoso physical comedy. Dark and disturbing. Hilarious.” Unanimous praise from the The Saturday Review panel on BBC Radio 4: ★★★★★ “Deathly fun –

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World Premiere of Complete Deaths

We opened in Brighton on Wednesday! Fantastic audience reaction to the show, and the first reviews are in. ★★★★ “Daft, ingenious and ultimately deeply thoughtful” Financial Times (print version here) ★★★★ “Brilliantly ridiculous – Inspired pairing of Spymonkey and Tim Crouch” The Stage ★★★★ “The Four Horsemen of the Ridiculypse

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Chris Riddell & Spymonkey’s Great Shakespearean Deaths Card-Gayme

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we have collaborated with illustrator and Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell to create THE GREAT SHAKESPEAREAN DEATHS CARD-GAYME. To order please visit https://www.spymonkey.co.uk/shop.html#tcd-cards From Clarence, drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine, to Cleopatra and her asps, from Julius Caesar and the

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Newsletter: London tour dates

Spring tour on sale and we’re coming to London! The first week of our final stint of rehearsals is underway, two exciting tour dates announced today and we’ve got a little Chris Riddell teaser…SPRING TOUR ON SALE Our full spring tour is now on sale as we confirm today that we’ll be at PULSE festival in June. Follow the links

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Brighton Festival and Bristol Mayfest launches

The Brighton Festival site is now live and booking for festival membership starts tomorrow. Public booking for all festival events opens 26th February. http://brightonfestival.org/event/8123/the_complete_deaths/ Mayfest Bristol is open to bookings now http://mayfestbristol.co.uk/mayfest2016/the-complete-deaths/ Here’s a round-up of press coverage today: ITV Meridian    Festival programme news    17-Feb, 6.30pm    http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2016-02-17/anderson-stars-as-brighton-festival-launches-line-up-for-its-50th-year/ BBC South East

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Spring 2016 tour dates announced

SPYMONKEY NEWS > 10 Feb 2016 Dear friends, We thought you should be the first to know. We’ve just announced our spring tour dates for The Complete Deaths. Zowee!!! Things are hotting up: We spent a week together in Brighton in January working on set pieces, music and dance numbers with

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January Complete Deaths week

We spent last week working at Bird Studios in Brighton, mainly focused on consolidating choreographic routines, musical bits and set pieces. Cleopatra’s dance with the asps is being choreographed by Janine Fletcher, who we first worked together with on Moby Dick, half of Brighton performance/comedy dance duo The Two Wrongies.

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