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.
- Satie 100!
On Saturday 5th July, we are hosting Satie 100: Memoirs of an Amnesiac, an evening celebrating the life and works of seminal/eccentric/genius french composer Erik Satie 100 years after his… Read more: Satie 100! - Nick Booth – Our Friend
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!
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!
Diary
Satie 100: Memoirs of an Amnesiac
Saturday 5 July
Our Facility
Tickets on sale now
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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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.
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.