Gongs for Orpheus

We were tucked up that Orpheus in the Underworld, Spymonkey’s first full-scale opera directed by Toby Park and Aitor Basauri, was awarded Best Design 2023 at the Austrian Music Theatre Awards on 1st September. We also received a nomination for Best Operetta. Here’s designer Julian Crouch accepting the award: IMG_3611

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FIRST REVIEWS FOR THE FROGS

Buoyed by an encouraging first raft of reviews from our opening of The Frogs at Royal & Derngate…   ★★★★ “As engaging as it is audacious” THE OBSERVER   “Inspiring” THE TELEGRAPH   ★★★★ “Totally crazy but incredibly funny” REVIEWS HUB   ★★★★ “Painfully funny” LIBBY PURVES THEATRECAT   “Impeccable

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Cultural Recovery Fund

We are delighted to announce that Spymonkey have been successful in their application to the Cultural Recovery Fund. MEDIA RELEASE DATE: 2nd APRIL 2021 Spymonkey to receive £68,871k from second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund Spymonkey is among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round

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OFFIE AWARD FINALISTS

Spymonkey’s HD version of COOPED/HYSTERIA (2019) has been selected as a finalist in the ONCOMM awards, the UK Off West-End online awards, in the category of Best Pre-Lockdown Recording. The show was recorded live in June 2019 at the Liverpool Playhouse. Cooped tours under the title HYSTERIA in the USA.

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…is Spymonkey’s Christmas Carol free-to-stream

As our little prezzie to you all, the FullHD version of SPYMONKEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL, recorded live at Liverpool Playhouse in 2019 will be FREE TO VIEW everywhere in the world this Sunday 20th for 5 days. We saved the best till last! And lord knows it’s needed right now! The

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All I Want For Christmas…

…is a Spymonkey Christmas prezzie! What The Dickens?! Created by Spymonkey with illustrator and former children’s laureate Chris Riddell, this is a card game to warm the cockles of your heart! Fun for all the family, and featuring favourite characters from Charles Dickens’ best-loved story. The rules are based on

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COVID-19 Emergency Physical Comedy Aid Package

In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, in order to try to keep your global peckers up, we are releasing free online versions of our shows to the world over the next weeks. We hope these will be of help in cheering you up and boosting your immune systems! You might

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Emergency ACE Funding

Some good news this morning: Spymonkey are receiving emergency Arts Council of England funds to allow us to continue to operate through the COVIDeousness. We’d like to thank all the #NationalLottery players who take a punt every week, as well as Arts Council of England, for stepping up to plate

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A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FROM SPYMONKEY

ALL DAY Sunday 22nd December, our side-splittingly, eye-wateringly, laugh-out-loud funny Spymonkey’s Christmas Carol, recorded live at Liverpool Playhouse last year, will be free to view for everyone everywhere. Snuggle up, here’s the link: https://vimeo.com/r/2tEa/NUZYSm14Qy[link is valid all day tomorrow, Sunday 22nd, even though if you click on it today, Saturday,

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CHRISTMAS WITH SPYMONKEY

We thought it would be nice to spend a bit of quality time with our international Family of Monkey this Yule-tide, so we are giving you all a Christmas present! For 24 hours from midday on Sunday 22nd December we’ll be making our live recording of Spymonkey’s A Christmas Carol

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