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.
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.
Diary
Number 11: Know Your Place
18 July – October
Library Opening Hours
Ground Floor Foyer
Library of Birmingham
FREE
Of All The People In All The World
18 September – 6 October
ArtHouse Jersey
23 – 27 October
Charleston Gaillard Center, South Carolina
The Just Price Of Flowers
22 – 26 April
Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa
(Produced & Performed by Loft Theatre)
Tickets not yet on sale.
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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- FREE Year 10 Science Workshop & Show
We’ve started hanging out with Birmingham Plastics Network (BPN) at the University of Birmingham (UoB). We’re making a performance dramatising their report in the Future Of Plastic called The Many… Read more: FREE Year 10 Science Workshop & Show - Composer Moving Out
On 30th August a free concert will take place at Our Facility in Selly Oak. This occasion marks the conclusion of James McIlwrath‘s time as Composer In Residence at Stan’s… Read more: Composer Moving Out - Philosophy Song Cycle
Year 4 students at Kings Rise Academy have been musing over some philosophical conundrums: Is it ever okay to lie? Can money buy happiness? What is friendship? What is love?… Read more: Philosophy Song Cycle
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.
