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‘The Puritans surrender to prurience and fornicate with anything in reach. Arousal! Appalling! And most deftly done’
Time Magazine
In 2003 Spymonkey and director Cal McCrystal were invited by Cirque du Soleil to create and perform the comedy numbers for ‘Zumanity - Another Side of Cirque du Soleil’, Cirque's first production of an adult burlesque show in its purpose-built theatre at New York New York Hotel Casino, Las Vegas.
Spymonkey’s surreal and irreverent style made them the uproarious highlight of the show. Between its opening in August 2003 and Spymonkey's much mourned departure in August 2005 their numbers in ‘Zumanity’ were enjoyed by over half a million people. It remains one of Cirque's most successful shows.
‘Spymonkey are hilarious’
Las Vegas Sun
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pom pom routine, photograph courtesy Cirqe du Soleil
love room, photograph courtesy Cirqe du Soleil
love room photograph courtesy Cirqe du Soleil
Zink magazine photo shoot 2005
photograph courtesy Cirqe du Soleil
Zink Magazine cover shoot 2005
PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAN DENNIE4
with Bette Midler
with the best bits of Duran Duran
with Halle Berry
with Jason Alexander
with Joan Collins
Cirque 'Solstrum' TV special with special guest Naomi Campbell
Cirque 'Solstrum' TV special with special guest Naomi Campbell
with Nicholas Cage
with Nicholas Cage
with Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee
with Patricia Arquette
Petra with Zumanity men
with Queen Latifa and friends
PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAN DENNIE32
with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler
PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAN DENNIE34
Zumanity cast and crew, New York New York Las Vegas 2003
Zink magazine photo shoot 2005
Zink magazine photo shoot 2005
Zink magazine photo shoot 2005
photograph by Natacha Merrit
photograph by Natacha Merrit
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‘The Puritans surrender to prurience and fornicate with anything in reach: one another, the audience, a lifesize doll that actually does come to life and tries to seduce a fellow in the front row. Arousal! Appalling! And most deftly done.’ Time Magazine
‘Spymonkey are hilarious’
Las Vegas Sun
‘Genuinely funny subversive comedy’
Sunday Telegraph UK
‘Rampantly brilliant bad taste’
Sunday Magazine UK
LOVESICK
2-minute edited extract from LOVESICK, a feature-length documentary directed by Lewis Cohen, filmed over two years, on the making of Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity at the New York New York Hotel Casino, Las Vegas in 2003.
Made in 2003-4, the film features Spymonkey, Joey Arias, Alex Castro, Laetitia Dewhurst and the Zumanity cast. You can watch the full documentary on iTunes
produced by Cirque du Soleil for New York New York Hotel Casino Las Vegas
directed by Dominic Champagne and René Richard Cyr
comedy created by Cal McCrystal, Aitor Basauri, Stephan Kreiss, Petra Massey, Toby Park
comedy performed by Spymonkey: Aitor Basauri, Stephan Kreiss, Petra Massey, Toby Park
comedy director Cal McCrystal
comedy production design Lucy Bradridge
