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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First glimpse of Frogs rehearsals

Rehearsal photographs by Manuel Harlan, at South East Dance, Brighton 13th Dec 2023. With actors Aitor Basauri, Jacoba Williams, Toby Park, director Joyce Henderson, writer Carl Grose, designer Lucy Bradridge, stage manager Katie Bosomworth, sound designer Beth Duke. The Frogs show page.      

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London run announced for The Frogs

Hot off the press: Spymonkey’s new touring show The Frogs, performed by Toby Park, Aitor Basauri and Jacoba Williams will perform at Kiln Theatre 8th February – 2nd March 2024. For full details of performance times and booking, please visit the Kiln Theatre website. Spymonkey, Kiln Theatre and Royal &

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Spymonkey Calling Northampton Hoofers

Calling all frog-tastic tap dancers! We’re ready to hop to it and put the ‘toad’ in ‘toe-tapping’! 🐸 We are looking to cast a community ensemble of tap dancers for our upcoming co-production with Spymonkey of The Frogs. The ensemble will work closely with a dance and community practitioner, choreographer, director and the cast of the show. To apply, you must be 18+ and available

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