Works – performances – shows, you know what we’re talking about. It’s what were about, making artistic things to share with people.
Stan’s Cafe, has a genius way of explaining things and making the difficult simple. Lyn Gardner – The Guardian A play about the 2008 financial collapse, set in 17th Century […]
Once artists were supported by patrons, wealthy individuals who commissioned work for their own pleasure/aggrandisement/favour with God. Now, with public subsidy of art, the relationship between artist and patron is […]
Domaine d’O, Montpelier, France2 – 30 October 2010 As part of Stan’s Cafe’s three year relationship with Domaine d’O the venuecommissioned an edition of The Steps Series for their Ampitheatre. […]
A seemingly ridiculous experiment […] which became almost legendary. Matthew Linley Once you have unfettered use of a large industrial space thoughts naturally turn to what fun you can have […]
First conceived 10 years ago, I See With My Eyes Closed was the fulfillment of a dream long-held between Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Stan’s Cafe, of collaborating on a […]
Unlimited set the brief to create a piece of theatre in response to a favourite musical track. The assumption was that the piece would be performed to the track. Unable […]
A man has been sent on a mission across Europe by a mysterious organisation. Something very bad has happened, but a crumbling memory refuses to let him recall things clearly. […]
Four lost interrogators are thrashing around in areas they’re hopelesslyunderqualified to deal with. They try everything they can to discover the truth but when they get close to it, they […]
Broadway Hertz was commissioned by Radiatorfor the Broadway Cinema in Nottingham. The initial idea was to use the building’s plumbing to ‘broadcast’ sound around the building, but the plumbing systemdid […]
For two days in July 2002 a new station appeared on the Metro Line in West Bromwichbetween Wednesbury and Wednesbury Parkway. Earth North Central was marked on all the maps […]
The Carrier Frequency, Impact Theatre’s collaboration with the novelistRussell Hoban, was one of the Eighties’ most outstanding and influential theatre shows. It is set in a post-nuclear world,where brutalised steel […]
Simple Maths started life as a theatre game designed for the Birmingham Federation of Youth Theatres; it became an hour long show in which five people change the order in […]
Voodoo City was commissioned by MAC and as part of the deal they were keen on some ‘outreach’ activity. To this end we ran some workshops. We also fiddled about […]
Ocean of Storms is an hour long theatre piece, inspired by the rich metaphoric potential of space travel. It uses a loose narrative of two quasi-angels searching for a small […]
A dead body has been found on the streets of Bromsgrove. Local citizens are rightly concernedbut with a team of top detectives on the scene the mystery should soon be […]
Voodoo City was inspired by two black cider bottles found lying in a road aligned in such a way as to suggest they were not litter but a hex. Working […]
A theatre show for three performers and a bingo machine. The 1982 sci-fi film Bladerunner (1982) contains two memorable scenes in which private detectives interview humanoids in order to discern […]
Made just before Christmas. Chris Corcran, sealed in a box, was dumped, wearing his underpants, holding a five pound note on Bromsgrove high street. A devil spiv trys to sell […]
There were two versions of Canute the King. The first was performed for three nights around, on and under water at the beautiful Edwardian swimming baths on Moseley Road, Birmingham […]
Graeme Rose and Richard Chew had long talked about making a show together about the French composer Erik Satie and the formation of Stan’s Cafe provided the ideal context to […]
The first touring show by Stan’s Cafe and a rare piece as it started with a fully written script. The idea was knocking around before the company’s formation. As with […]
