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
Micro 5 – In A Heartbeat
Saturday 14th December
Our Facility
Tickets on sale now
The Commentators
Christmas programme – tbc
Big Brother Macbeth
13 – 15 February
Bath Spa University
Tickets not yet on sale.
The Many Lives of PET #1
29 March – 12 April
Birmingham Tour
Tickets not yet on sale.
Of All The People In All The World
Spring dates to be announced
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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- Actor/Puppeteer Required: The Many Lives of PET 1
Stan’s Cafe are holding auditions for our new, original show ‘The Many Lives of PET #1’ – a complicated comedy about a plastic bottle! The show period will be between… Read more: Actor/Puppeteer Required: The Many Lives of PET 1 - 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
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.
