2008

In late 2002 Stan’s Cafe were commissioned by Creative Partnerships to devise a training day for teachers. The day was designed to encourage participants to take risks and try new […]

Impressive and original […] a fascinating and exhilarating piece of work from a company of real artistic innovators who always have new things to say and new ways of saying […]

Imagine a whole lifetime’s worth of exhilaration and confusion condensed into five minutes and you have some idea of what The Black Maze is like. It offers the same breathtaking […]

Centre de Cultura Contemporania De Barcelona 27th – 30th November 2008 Barcelona Presented as part of the CCCB’s NOW ProjectCCCB describe Now as “… a project focussing on the scientific, […]

A.E. Harris Factory, Birmingham13 September – 5 October, 2008 Birmingham 2 This show, using 120 tons of rice to represent the 6.7 billion inhabitants of our planet, was the realisation […]

This talk was commissioned as part of Mayfest by Theatre Bristol. It was presented to an audience of theatre makers.The text here was embellished to rococo extreme with ‘amusing’ anecdotes […]

Kampnagel Sommer FestivalHamburg, 15th – 23rd August 2008 Hamburg We first visited Kampnagel with It’s Your Film in August 2002. This time around we weren’t based in their fantastic industrial […]

You studied at Crew and Alsager College (now part of Manchester MetropolitanUniversity) what was it like when you were there? How did it set you up for whatyou are now […]

World Financial CenterUnder The Radar Festival, New York, USA 9 – 20 January 2008 You learn more in five minutes here than reading the whole of the New York Times […]

From June 2005 to July 2007 the rice tour was my life. I kept in touch with home through a series of emails, with my thoughts about the show and […]

The ExchangePenzance, U.K. 30 January – 3 February 2008 The first public gig in the UK with Of All The People since June 2006 and the company’s first visit to […]

IntroductionIn 2006, as part of my masters in Arts Management at Anglia Ruskin University, I undertook a research project, which involved Stan’s Cafe as a case study. The overall aim […]

Truro CathedralTruro, U.K. 5 – 9 February 2008 Truro For our second week in Cornwall we moved from the post industrial space of The Exchange to the Victorian gothic splendour […]

Coventry University’s Centre for Media, Art and Performance commissioned a talk about Stan’s Cafe and the place of politics in its work. This is the text from which that talk […]

University of Zurich 175th AnniversarySchiffbau Schauspielhaus, Zurich 29 February 2008 Of All The People In All The World: Switerland and the UK A one night stand for the show here […]

Devising started for The Cleansing Of Constance Brown with just six of the seven castplaces filled. When it was finally resolved that the seventh performer should be a womanand that […]

Devised by Third Year Theatre Students at Coventry University with James Yarker The Themes.The piece took as its starting point an interest in the Spanish Inquisition, particularly its paranoia, racism […]

Staff in the Nursery Class at Birches Green Infant School were keen to create a resource they could use to encourage pro-social behaviour in the classroom. As a result a […]

Autumn, 2008Christ the King Catholic Primary School, Birmingham Christ the King Catholic Primary School in Kingstanding invited us to help with an enterprise project Year 6 were undertaking. Working in […]

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 […]

MAC, Birmingham31 March – 6 April 2008 MAC commissioned Dance Steps to mark the closure of the building prior to a multi-million pound redevelopment. Our ambition was to reflect the […]