Stan's Cafe Theatre Company

Stan’s Cafe is a theatre company (and charity). We make our work collaboratively, following exciting ideas wherever they take us, sometimes into theatres.

We love working in schools with students and teachers. Often we help out other people because we love seeing other people make great art.

We started in 1991 and we are more excited than ever before.

Please have fun zipping around our website.

Nick Booth – Our FriendApril 24, 2025
Last Tuesday our great friend Nick Booth died. He had an accident at home on Saturday and died peacefully in hospital surrounded members of his family. This news comes as… Read more: Nick Booth – Our Friend
PET #1 Goes to Greenbelt!April 14, 2025
Exciting news! The Many Lives of PET #1 is on the lineup for Greenbelt Festival 2025! We’ll be performing on Saturday 23rd August. #GB25 Tickets https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/buy-tickets/ We are proud of… Read more: PET #1 Goes to Greenbelt!
The Many Lives of PET #1January 23, 2025
Birmingham Community Tour, 29th March – 12th April A complicated comedy about a plastic bottle. Poor old PET #1. Distantly related to pre historical plankton, used and cast aside every… Read more: The Many Lives of PET #1

Diary

Of All The People In All The World
11 – 15 July
Farnham Maltings, Surrey

The Many Lives of PET #1
Saturday 23 August
Greenbelt Festival, Boughton House
Tickets on sale now

The Commentators
Summer dates to be announced

The Commentators

An improvised walkabout performance (unless they’re sat down) in which two sports commentators describe everyday life in too much detail. Catch them live in person or streamed live online.

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Of All The People In All The World

The internationally acclaimed performance installation that turns abstract human population statistics into emotionally gripping stories using grains of rice. It’s MUCH better than it sounds.

Current Portfolio Greatest Hits

A person is dressed in a teddy bear costume sitting behind a desk. They are holding an old fashioned phone to their bear head ear. They are a football mascot and so on top of the bear costume they are wearing a red and white striped football shirt

It’s Bordesley’s first day at work as leader of Birmingham City Council. It would be a tough job for anyone, but he is a football mascot and his first job is to set the city’s £3bn pound city budget. We join Bordesley on his steep learning curve as he discovers, with the help of 6,000 gold dominoes where all our money comes from and where it all goes.

Emergency Performance

Emergency Performance is an open ended series of Acts through which Stan’s Cafe delivers its environmental responsibilities. Acts are performed in whatever artistic form is most appropriate to the environmental […]
2025

River Tours

Guided tours of rivers, performed live, indoors or out, illustrated by especially commissioned textile ribbon maps. The library is growing and our latest map and performance ‘The River Severn’ is touring this summer. We’d love you to join us on a journey down this, the longest river in the UK, a river flowing with stories of nature, history and legend. No boat needed.