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 rehearsals

Insidious rehearsals are underway in New York… ON BROADWAY! (finally doing a Broadway show, even if that’s just where we’ve been rehearsing). Here’s a peak at what we’ve been up to. Pics by Ethan Lindhout. Full details about the show on the Insidious show page.

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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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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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Autumn 2024 Training – New York & Bilbao

There are three ways to train with us in New York this autumn and ‘save the date’ for our popular week-long course in Bilbao. Our New York training, in association with New York Drama Centre, will take place in Midtown Manhattan (venue tbc) this October. ★ Two week Spymonkey Theatre

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Recruiting – Spymonkey General Manager

  We are excited to be recruiting for a new General Manager to join Spymonkey’s small freelance team for a year long project to realign and secure our business. As our artistic projects expand in both scale and location, alongside our training programme growing with demand, we need a diligent

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Creation School at BAC London

We just finished our 6th 3-weeker Theatre of the Funny Creation School. Great to be back at the BAC! – it holds some very warm memories for us since its where we spent a lot of time in our early days as a company, and we really enjoyed being there

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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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Christmas Carol 4 yoooooo!

Spymonkey loves you! We are celebrating a corker of a year in which we launched 3 whole new shows – Orpheus at the Vienna Volksoper, Hairy at Polka Theatre in London and the Pavilion Worthing, and The Frogs. The last of these has its world premiere at Royal & Derngate

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