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.
- Wanted: Technical Stage ManagerWe’re seeking a West Midlands based Technical Stage Manager for our upcoming production: Community Service, which will be made and tour March to May 2024. Community Service is a touring… Read more: Wanted: Technical Stage Manager
- Recruiting: Curator & EvaluatorWe’re embarking on an ambitious new project to catalogue, archive and curate an exhibition about the lives of the first black police officers in the West Midlands. This exhibition, inspired… Read more: Recruiting: Curator & Evaluator
- Casting: Community Service (3 roles)We are looking for three devising actors to join our team for Community Service, a touring theatre show inspired by the life of Trevor Prince, one of the West Midlands’… Read more: Casting: Community Service (3 roles)
Diary
Ultraopticon
19-20 January, Live and Online
Details TBC
Of All The People In All The World
California, USA
February 2024
Community Service
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
10 – 13 April 2024
Tobacco Factory, Bristol
23 – 27 April 2024
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
30 April and 1 May 2024
Birmingham Hippodrome
8 – 11 May 2024
Further Dates TBC
River Tours: The Severn
Summer 2024 Dates TBC
Behind Beneath Here
Summer 2024 Dates TBC
All Our Money
Autumn 2024 Dates TBC

All Our Money
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.