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The Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome7 – 11 September 2024 Brighton 2024 It was great to revisit the Brighton Dome having paid a brief visit there in May for the caravan […]

The photographic series Behind Beneath Here is designed to help people think about their city in a new way. Passers-by hold signs pointing out otherwise hidden features of the landscape, […]

On 4th July, 2024, a group of Year 7 students from Wheelers Lane Technology college will pull a double decker bus across a school field. This long awaited sequal to […]

Idyllwild Arts Academy, USA Parks Exhibition Center, IAA6 – 14 February, 2024 This version of the show was a collaboration with the internationally acclaimed private arts high school, the Idyllwild […]

Each Tuesday in the first half term of 2023 Year 4 at George Betts Primary School in Smethwick worked with James on their local history topic. In the morning 9 […]

It’s the 1980s. One of the Midland’s first Black Police officers and an acclaimed gospel guitarist, faces conflict on the streets, at work and in church. To bring harmony to […]

Watching the world for a day Ships are moving on the high sea and nudging into dock. Planes are crossing time zones. Foreign exchanges and futures markets are shifting. Early […]

The Southbank Centre, London As part of “Planet Summer” Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall28 August – 2 September, 2023 Fabulous, funny, witty, provocative and humbling. Audience Member We were very […]

In inner-space everyday life is science fictionwe are astronauts floating across the living rooma mug of tea touches downsometimes we talk – over After five days playing with a mascot […]

Prompted by the death of Elizabeth II and coronation of Charles III a cast of almost nintey ten and eleven year olds take us back to the death of Elizabeth […]

The Kennedy Center, Washington DC 4 – 16 April 2023 We first presented Of All The People In All The World at the Kennedy Center in 2010 in the Hall […]

Avoncroft Museum, Bromsgrove Tuesday 28 March (NE Worcestershire Cultural Compact Conference)Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 April, 2023Wednesday 5 – Monday 10 April, 2023 We were invited to present Of All […]

How would you build a more healthy neighbourhood? A huge new hospital is being built on the boarder of Sandwell and Birmingham and we were commissioned by Sandwell Cultural Educaiton […]

mac, Birmingham Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 October, 2022Wednesday 26 – Sunday 30 October, 2022Wednesday 2 – Sunday 6 November, 2022 It was lovely to bring Of All The People […]

As a 19 year old I stood long evenings on the Carlisle Bridge, gazing down at The Lune, trains rumbling behind, the future imminent ahead. Now, more than 30 years […]

Warwick Arts Centre 4 – 9 October, 2022 This was a return to where it all started for Of All The People In All The World. The foyer of Warwick […]

Over 30 years into directing Stan’s Cafe and I’ve never felt like Hollywood producer, until we started devising Precious Emily. Suddenly, faced with the annoyance of historical veracity and the […]

Using thousands of gold painted dominoes All Our Money explains everything in a fast paced, clear and very funny theatre show. Designed to be performed without any fuss in community […]

The inspirational stories of weightlifters Precious McKenzie and Emily Campbell made into ten different shows by ten different primary schools – all called Precious Emily, combining to become a gala performance.

University of British Columbia, 21 July 2022 In the next ten minutes. I want to talk to you about our performance installation Of All The People In All The World, […]

As part of SE Change Festival, University of British Columbia Innovation Center & Okanagan Regional Library18 – 21 July, 2022 Kelowna This presentation started out located in the atrium of […]

Schools: Billeseley Primary, Chandos Primary, Croft Primary, George Betts, Kings Rise Shirestone Primary, Shireland Hall Primary, Tiverton Primary, Woods Bank Primary.

The inspirational stories of weightlifters Precious McKenzie and Emily Campbell made into ten different shows by ten different primary schools – all called Precious Emily, combining to become a gala performance.

Stan’s Cafe developed is broad approach to working in schools through a series of key projects a number of which were in collaboration with Castle Vale School. One of the […]

When we were first looking to explore our idea of extended working with a Partner School we advertised the opportunity widely and numerous schools applied. Victoria Park Academy were among […]

The internationally acclaimed performance installation that turns abstract human population statistics into emotionally gripping stories using grains of rice. It’s MUCH better than it sounds.

Living BodiesYear 1 explored the features of living bodies in a dance performance with poetry using costumes and props they had made. They performed this piece to parents in the […]

IN 2012 we sent out letters to every local authority run primary school in Birmingham inviting them to apply to become our first Partner School. After shortlisting we visited a […]

2020/22 Exploring how teaching of English can be improved by using Stan’s Cafe’s rehearsal room techniques in the classroom. The Classroom Stage is a multi-year action research project supported by […]

Inspired by teach-yourself-to-dance floor mats, The Steps Series invites audiences to perform the show themselves. Performance instructions are printed out as vinyl footsteps, handprints, ‘objectprints’ and script fragments and applied […]