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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Frogs

Spymonkey’s The Frogs

We are very pleased to announce news of our latest show, which will see Toby and Aitor reunited on stage for the first time since 2019. The creative team includes Spymonkey’s long-standing designer Lucy Bradridge, writer Carl Grose (who last worked with Spymonkey on Oedipussy in 2012), director Joyce Henderson,

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Orpheus revival in Vienna

Spymonkey’s smash hit operetta is back, running at the Volksoper Vienna for the following performances: 6th, 9th, 13th, 17th, 24th, 28th September 2023 1st, 3rd, 8th, 13th October 2023 “A triumph of comedy. Simply brilliant.” Wiener Zeitung “Spymonkey’s directing team Toby Park & Aitor Basauri have proved themselves, turbo-charging this

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Time Out review

★★★★ Joyously out there kids’ show about a group of bickering hair follicles from stage comedy legends Spymonkey With ‘Hairy’, veteran theatre comedy troupe Spymonkey sets its sights on kids’ theatre for the first time – and the results are absolute chaos, a world away from the cosy predictability and

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Reviews for Hairy

★★★★“…one of the most ingenious kids’ shows around right now…you’d be mad to miss it” The Stage ★★★★“Lively, bold and energetic, Hairy is the perfect family show.” LouReviews ★★★★“This extraordinary, exhilarating and joyously ridiculous show from Spymonkey shouts to the rooftops about Polka’s principles of equality, inclusion, diversity, and offering children the

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Stage review

★★★★ “One of the most ingenious kids’ shows around” Jasmine Chiu, Katie Grace, Matthew Faucher and John-Luke Roberts (front) in Hairy at Polka Theatre, London. Photo: Steve Gregson The company is famed for physical theatre but, here, Spymonkey’s trademark style plays a supporting role to the hair madness. No bother,

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Everywhere Theatre review

Review: Hairy, Polka Theatre Author: Mary Pollard in Family, Fringe Theatre, Reviews 10 July 2023 FOUR STARS – Excellent A wonderful, wild adventure of personal (hair) growth, that will leave the whole family happily washed, brushed and beaming The Polka Theatre is routinely fabulous, offering a beautifully varied range of

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Hairy video

Gonna Get Hairy song by Neil Filby, Toby Park & Noah Park-Roesel Polka Theatre Wimbledon – 1st July-20th August BOOK HERE Worthing Pavilion – 24-28 August BOOK HERE

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Hairy previews

Spymonkey’s first ever show for children opens in London! Laugh-out-loud comedy for Hairies aged 6-12 years and their families. Meet Hairnry. He’s a follicle, and one of the five million hair cells that grow on a human body. On his first day Hairnry arrives at Hair Control Centre with big

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