Spymonkey are looking for an experienced creative consultant to work with us over the next year to support us in embedding our diversity and inclusion work into the creative process of our next two productions; Hairy and The Frogs. Following a significant change within our artist-led organisation, not least the unexpected
All images © Barbara Pálffy/Volksoper Wien Conductor Tobias Wögerer Stage direction Spymonkey – Aitor Basauri & Toby Park Stage and costume design Julian Crouch Choreography Gail Skrela Video Joshua Higgason Lighting design Tim van’t Hof Choir director Roger Díaz-Cajamarca ENSEMBLE Eurydike Hedwig Ritter Öffentliche Meinung Ruth Brauer-Kvam Pluto (Aristeus) Timothy
More rave reviews of Spymonkey’s directorial triumph at the Vienna Volksoper. It’s a sell-out smash hit! “The Volksoper succeeds in a triumph of comedy: this is how you play operetta! Racy, dust-free, modern and colourful – grandiose entertainment theatre of the highest level. Pure joy!” Wiener Zeitung, 23.1.2023 “The British
Spymonkey’s first foray into operetta had its premiere on Saturday. The reviews have been like nothing we’ve ever experienced. WIENER ZEITUNG 22 Jan 2023 “A triumph of comedy… This is how operetta is played: racy, dust-free, modern and colourful – grandiose entertainment of the highest standard. A pure joy!” [DeepL
SPYMONKEY LAUNCH NEW MANIFESTO AND THREE NEW SHOWS FOR 2023 In celebration of 25 years of making “brilliant virtuoso physical comedy” (BBC R4 Saturday Review), Spymonkey are launching a new manifesto and programme of work for 2023 and beyond. The last three years have seen major changes to the UK’s
We are committed to supporting the development of the next generation of comedy performers. Our professional training workshops are delivered by the artistic directors and associate artists in the UK and across the world. Participants develop techniques of clowning, comedy, devising and music theatre in a way which is transferable
We’re pleased to announce our workshop dates for the new year. We’ll be teaching for a week in March at The Royal and Derngate in Northampton, a week in March at Toynbee studios and for three weeks in May at Worthing Theatre and Museum. We’ve altered our application process slightly
We start work directing our opera production at the Vienna Volksoper this week. Orpheus is designed by Julian Crouch and conducted by Alex Joel, choreographed by Gail Skrela. We’ve been cooking this show up for a while – we began talking to new artistic director Lotte de Beer nearly two
We can finally reveal a project we’ve been working on for a while: a Spymonkey opera! Jacques Offenbach’s ‘Orpheus in der Underwelt’, opens January 21 2023 at the Volksoper Vienna, part of incoming artistic director Lotte de Beer’s inaugural season. Directed by Toby Park & Aitor Basauri, design by Julian
Making new connections for ongoing professional relationships. We have been awarded an Arts Council Project Grant for a new piece of work called ‘Spymonkey Would Like to Meet…’. It’s not a show, or a workshop, or a training opportunity but we hope it will inform all of these in the
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