2018

Each year we help Year 8 at Saltley Academy stage twin productions of a play by Shakespeare on the site of his house in Stratford-Upon-Avon. This year it is Romeo and Juliet.

“…a masterclass in composition and flow.” The Stage Watch, as if from the window of a bus, as the big city glides by. See lives converge and diverge as rich […]

Washwood Heath Academy, BirminghamJuly 2018 After working with the Science Department in the Autumn term transforming their very long corridor into a learning resource via Equation Decoration, in the Summer […]

The Jewellery Quarter Academy, BirminghamPerformed @ A E HarrisJanuary/February 2018 Zigi Doesn’t Hate was a performance piece created as part of a national arts education project, Echo Eternal. This project […]

The work of Stan’s Cafe has been cited in academic books and journals since the late 1990s. References have been to the company’s productions, its process and its creative learning […]

8.31am Wednesday 21st March 2018 I receive an email from Stan’s Cafe on Wednesday morning. It’s from Laura: “Hi Simon. I’m getting in touch again because we wondered if you […]

Text from a talk given at TEDx Bonn: 17 November 2018.Commissioned by SAVE THE WORLDat Telekom Design Gallery When you grow up on a small island you keep bumping into […]

Almost everyone staging a new theatre production in the real world faces the same problem even before start rehearsals. Every production needs an image to promote it, but the deadline […]

Tyrone was a founder member of the revered experimentalists Impact Theatre Co-Operative. He has subsequently mixed performing in new plays at the RSC, National Theatre and most of the main […]

Archbishop Ilsley School, BirminghamNovember/December 2018 I am Hedi was a performance piece created as part of a national arts education project, Echo Eternal. This project pairs schools with artists who […]

After having worked with Billesley Primary School over a number of years on a wide variety of different creative projects, in 2018 we decided to take a slightly different appproach. […]

Saltley Academy and Washwood Heath Academy After a number of years working with our Partner Schools Washwood Heath Academy and Saltley Academy we were fortunate enough to gain a Change […]

This cheekily titled show was initially inspired by the phenomena of theatre shows being ‘live streamed’. It’s a kind of playful kick back against the monopolistic tendency of the behemoth […]

Conde Duque, Madrid 201812 – 29 September 2018 Our friends Isla Aguilar and Miguel Oyarzun, the founders of Birmingham’s European performance festival BE Festival approached us in the summer to […]

Sommerszene 2018 8 – 16 June 2018 We spent ten days at the beginning of June in the beautiful Austrian city of Salzburg, birthplace of a certain composer called Wolfgang […]

Washwood Heath Academy13th April, 2018 Through our Change Makers award from Arts Council England we have been developing ways of working with people from a range of ages and backgrounds […]