STAN'S CAFE (1991 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit Address: Stan's Cafe, PO BOX 16044, Birmingham B16 6SG, U.K. |
Stan's Cafe (pronounced Caff) is a Birmingham-based company that draws on a range of influences and interests, and works in collaboration with artists from a variety of disciplines in order to devise new types of convention-challenging theatrical experience.
World Premieres of Plays by Stan's Cafe
366 Days Of Kindness | ||
| 1st Produced: | Norden Farm Centre For The Arts, Maidenhead | 41620 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33091 | |||
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Genre: | multimedia show | |||||
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Notes: | Written by Bernadette Russell and Gareth Brierley. Produced by White Rabbit in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Jacksons Lane | |||||
Synopsis: | In response to the riots of August 2011, Bernadette Russell committed to be kind to a stranger every single day for a year. This multi media show tells the heartbreaking, surprising and challenging stories of that year, which began with burning buildings and ended with the flame of the Olympic torch, against a global backdrop of social unrest and economic crisis. Part storytelling, part stand up, part live documentary, featuring a dinner party with surprise guests including the Dalai Lama, Aristotle and Princess Diana, this show attempts to answer the question: is it possible to change the world just by being kind | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXXIV (2014) Page 0602 - [Theatre: Brighton - various] | |||||
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devised by Gerard Bell, Rochi Rampal, Graeme Rose,Craig Stephens | Anatomy Of Melancholy, The | |
| 1st Produced: | Warwick: Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL >>> | 41345 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #172072 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Devised and Performed by Gerard Bell, Rochi Rampal, Graeme Rose,Craig Stephens | |||||
Synopsis: | the Anatomy of Melancholy has been described as the greatest book ever written . Nearly 400 years old, it is a vast, 1500 page attempt to identify the causes, symptoms and cures for all kinds of melancholy. Written by vicar and librarian Robert Burton it contains all the wisdom of its age arcane, outlandish and hilarious. Yet, amidst all the wild stories and suppositions, much of its advice remains as urgent and profound now as it did then. Ten years ago a Serbian festival director challenged Stans Cafe to adapt this, his favourite book, for the stage, stating that they were the only company he could imagine pulling it off. So this is their attempt to bring the Anatomy Of Melancholy, perhaps the worlds most extraordinary self-help manual, to the stage. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXXIII (2013) Page 1116 - [Theatre: Ovalhouse] | |||||
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Any Fool Can Start a Wa | ||
| 1st Produced: | 41836 | |||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71750 | |||
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Genre: | piece 70 min | |||||
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Synopsis: | Witty, visually arresting and educational, this playful collaboration between internationally renowned theatre company Stan's Cafe and one of Birmingham's most adventurous primary schools, tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis and how Castro, Kennedy and Khrushchev lead the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Be Proud Of Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Frankfurt: Mousunturm | 37924 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #172071 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Devised by Amanda Hadingue, Craig Stephens, James Yarker. An early version of this show was performed at mac in September 2003. | |||||
Synopsis: | The mysterious Mr Nowicki. A sister (he misses), a woman (the chemist - his lover), a hotel he's sure he's already checked into, a plane he's destined never to catch, a briefing room where he's made to rehearse small talk, a doctor who sells a dangerous kind of health insurance, a necklace glinting in the moonlight. Something bad has happened, but a crumbling memory makes recall evasive. Be Proud of Me switches between slickly improvised banter and an hallucinatory text scripted from tourist phrase books, a dark thriller viewed from the warped perspective of a failing mind. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 0236 - [Theatre: Lyric Studio] | |||||
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Bingo In The House Of Babel | ||
| 1st Produced: | 34423 | |||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #147990 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A theatre show for three performers and a bingo machine. Although it aimed to carry its research lightly, bingo in the house of babel was inspired by a series of ideas provoked by popular science books which were in vogue around 1994. The show worked as a mind game around the Turing Test for artificial intelligence, which employed the notion of a book, in which could be looked up all the answers to all the questions you could ask anyone. It seemed clear that such a book would run not just to many volumes but to a significant library. So developed the question. . .What would the librarians do in the 'Tea or Coffee?' section of Einstein's brain library? Our answer was go mad, doubt their sanity, play games, set fire to the place. But not necessarily in that order. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XIV (1994) Page 0680 - [Theatre: BAC Studio 1] | |||||
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Black Maze, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Revolution, ICC, Birmingham | 36527 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #172074 | |||
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Genre: | mixed media Piece | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Black Maze is a cross between a fairground ride and a rite of passage. Alone or in pairs you must brave the dark labyrinth of twisting passages to find a corridor full of stars. Filled with unexpected sensation, sights and sounds, The Black Mazewill keep your senses on full alert. | |||||
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Canute The King | ||
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham: Moseley Baths | 1993 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68718 | |||
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Genre: | site specific | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | 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. The second toured in an inch of water. Like Memoirs of an Amnesiac before it, Canute the King was loosely based on an historical figure. The story / legend of Canute was appropriated for its metaphoric potential and fused with other figures. Aelthruda, Canute's wife, became an important foil in a piece which came to be about fate, duty, humanity, identity, sacrifice and loss. The biographies of Edward VIII, Princess Diana and Prince Charles all informed both productions. The pool version was primarily a visual spectacle. Journeys, around, over and under the water were accompanied by taped music, live classical singing, blues harmonica and slide projections. A pier made from wood found on the streets of Highgate and Balsall Heath jutted out from the deep end. A meal was eaten underwater. A flotilla of silver, candle lit boats were launched from a raft and, at the close, inevitably, Canute sank (or did the waters rise?). The scale and logistical complexity of the pool version was sharply contrasted by the simplicity of the second version. Stripped back to its thematic and narrative core the piece was completely remade for touring. Now a two hander, without live music, but still with projections and silver boats, the piece became flooded with text. It charted the royal couple's last night together huddled in the top tower room of a drowned palace. Extremely simple in its form, elegiac in its tone and content, Canute was a comic piece of theatrical poetry, beautiful and sad. | |||||
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devised by Alia Alzougbi, Gerard Bell, Graeme Rose, Craig Stephens | Cardinals, The | |
| 1st Produced: | Montpellier: Domaine d'O | 40582 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #157158 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | devised by Alia Alzougbi, Gerard Bell, Graeme Rose, Craig Stephens for Stan's Cafe | |||||
Synopsis: | Three Cardinals in crimson robes are on a mission of evAngelism. they are on tour with a puppet show they have made that sets out their abbreviated and extrapolated reading of the bible. the reading is abbreviated as it stages only a relatively small number of scenes key to their message of redemption; it is extrapolated as its reading of the book of Acts and Revelation include elements of contemporary history. Our theatre show is slightly bigger than the Cardinal's own puppet show our real audience (as opposed to their fictional audience), can see what is happening in the wings, how they collaborate and argue, how they are both aided by and in conflict with their young female Muslim stage manager. the Cardinals is essentially a visual show performed without words. the Cardinals have no puppets to speak of so enter the puppet stage themselves. the sincerity of the Cardinals, the seriousness of their intent and their theatrical naivete makes the show simultaniously very funny and strangely touching. the show has many themes with Belief chief amongst them. the Cardinals ask us to 'believe' whilst classically the theatre asks us to 'suspend our disbelief'. the show is in essence very simple, it tells well-known Bible stories in a simple, beautiful and compelling way. We have been asked if the show is 'controversial' which is an impossible question to answer definitively because we cannot answer for other people's personal instincts. We hope the show is provocative but not controversial. We are not seeking to argue for or against religion but hoping to prompt people to consider their relationship to religious faith. - Stan's cafe | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXXIII (2013) Page 0053 - [Theatre: Roundhouse] | |||||
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Carrier Frequency, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham: Crescent Theatre | 36280 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #161641 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Carrier Frequency, Impact Theatre's collaboration with the novelist Russell Hoban, was one of the Eighties' most outstanding and influential theatre shows. It is set in a post-nuclear world, where brutalised steel and concrete structures rise from a giant pool of water. It depicts six figures lost in an absurd and exhausting ritual, trying to revive a departed civilisation. Despite it's harrowing subject matter, the show retains moments of ludicrous slapstick and verbal wit. When it exploded on the world in 1984 it caused a sensation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cleansing Of Constance Brown, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warwick: Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL >>> | 39224 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33092 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 performers | |||||
Notes: | written by Craig Stephens | |||||
Synopsis: | Co-commissioned by Wiener Festwochen, the Cleansing of Constance Brown looks likely to enhance the company's international reputation even further. Performed in a long and narrow constructed corridor -a device that creates a startling sense of dynamism and intensity -the show is a poetic, episodic piece of visual theatre that explores ideas of power, the site of decision-making and the place of women in the world; and investigates the concept of 'cleansing' - be it a religious, psychic or medical imperative, a domestic chore, a personal ablution or a fragment of a genocide. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXXI (2011) Page 0254 - [Theatre: A. E. Harris - Birmingham] | |||||
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District Twelve | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix Arts, Leicester | 37744 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98782 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Synopsis: | District Twelve, the single most complex block on the North West edge of down town. Unknown sources have leaked bomb threats. The building's logic systems are failing. Security is in meltdown but for most residents life continues as normal. Using a large cast and inventive staging this playful and humane show creates a new world, much like our own, where connections are tenuous, no-one knows everything, fiction, rumour and fact are blurred and personal lives continue despite the thriller being played out next door. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Finger, Trigger, Bullet, Gun | ||
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham: Rep, The Studio, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EP >>> | 41822 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33093 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Nenad Prokic for Stans Cafe. part of BE FESTIVAL: a fortnight-long feast of European culture | |||||
Synopsis: | A Bosnian Serb finger pulled the trigger of the gun that started the First World War but who put the bullet in that gun? As Stan's Cafe complete the process of remorselessly standing thousands of hand drawn domino figures in a precarious chain, we are taken behind closed doors in Berlin, Vienna and Belgrade to watch a conspiracy being built' a conspiracy that will lead to Sarajevo, a date with the Archduke, and that that gun loaded with that bullet having its trigger pulled by that finger. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Devised by Sarah Archdeacon, Amanda Hadingue, Craig Stephens, Nick Walker | Good And True | |
| 1st Produced: | 36579 | |||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132860 | |||
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Genre: | Devised 70 min Piece | |||||
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Notes: | Devised by Sarah Archdeacon, Amanda Hadingue, Craig Stephens, Nick Walker | |||||
Synopsis: | Good and True is an ambitious theatre show; a metaphysical epic full of angels and prophets, tempters and devils in disguise. It is set round a table that may once have been in an American cop show. Someone has had a vision. There are interrogators and their consciences. It's about how memory and moralities warp with perspective, so obviously its packed full of gags. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 0236 - [Theatre: Lyric Studio] | |||||
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devised by Heather Burton, Amanda Hadingue, Bernadette Russell, Craig Stephens And James Yarker | Home Of the Wriggler | |
| 1st Produced: | 38742 | |||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #172075 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised by Heather Burton, Amanda Hadingue, Bernadette Russell, Craig Stephens And James Yarker. Text by James Yarker | |||||
Synopsis: | Imagine living in a very differnet age from our own gas-guzzlinfg era. Perhaps a time after some eco-catastrophe? How could someone explain to you what the West Midlands was like from the late late 1950s onwards? Stan's Cafe has a go with this strange, compelling show, powered by the stories of those who have lived in Birmingham and worked in the motor industry - and also by cycling (which is generated by the cast's often exaustive peddling. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0493 - [Theatre: A E Harris Factory - Birmingham] | |||||
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It's Your Film | ||
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham: Bond Gallery | 35951 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #157157 | |||
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Genre: | 4 min piece One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Lasting just 180 seconds, It's Your Film is performed for an audience of one, seated in a small viewing booth looking through a letter-box sized aperture. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XX (2000) Page 0086 - [Theatre: Canary Wharf] | |||||
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Just Price Of Flowers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham :A E Harris factory | 40515 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #172073 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | an off site production by Birmingham Rep. the play is written And directed by James Yarker, with lyrics by Craig Stephens And music And origami by Brian Duffy. | |||||
Synopsis: | A play about the 2008 financial collapse, set in 17th Century Netherlands, looking like a Rembrandt, featuring origami and paying homage to the great theatre maker Bertolt Brecht.Tulips were imported into Europe in the early 17th Century at a time when merchants were generating wealth through trade. Collecting exotic items was a fashion. A passion developed for tulips, their price rose rapidly and created the possibility of making profit through speculative buying. For a brief time certain tulip bulbs were sold for prices equivalent to those of a house, or three years of a craftsmans wage. In 1637 this financial bubble burst. Using Tulipmania as its inspiration, the Just Price of Flowers finds the Van Leasings buying a tulip from Van Eek, using money borrowed from Van Hire. It follows them as they chase their dream of wealth through the growing complexities of futures trading, credit ratings, sub-primes, credit default swaps, and the horror of short selling. This is a simple, playful production, which explains the complexities of high finance with great humour, in a remarkably straightforward way, whilst steadily setting you up for the inevitable heartbreaking finale. there are also two songs and an origami peacock. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXXII (2012) Page 0738 - [Theatre: A. E. Harris Factory Building - Birmingham] | |||||
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Lurid And Insane |
| 1st Produced: | Lancaster: a barn near Nuffield Theatre | 37180 | |||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | ||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103869 | ||
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Genre: | n/a | ||||
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Synopsis: | The title is lifted from an obituary in The Independent, long before the show was concieved of. Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowned himself Emperor of the Central African Republic in a ceremony described as ""Pure pantomime, lurid and insane"". Eventually we returned to the subject of the obituary as a starting point for what, at some point, clearly had to become a musical, kind of. Set in a political rally it shows how a charismatic, newly elected president is consumed by ego and becomes a deranged dictator. The story develops in the course of a concert. The President's cabinet are a band, he is the lead singer and the audience are members of the ruling party. The show is funny, and playful with serious subject matter, the music is excellent. | ||||
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Made Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham: Rep, The Door, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EP >>> | 14 May 2016 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #181206 | |||
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Synopsis: | On a film set, in a Winnebago, Sue is making Kate up. Kate is a newly created star, she makes things up in front of the camera and in front of her colleagues. Sue is growing old; secretly tired and lonely, she is unsure what the future will bring. At home they both have people they need to make up with. This seventy minutes they spend alone together each morning has become their sanctuary; they are made up to have found each other. Made Up is a heart-warming play about friendship and the faces we show the world. It has been made in conversation with women in the North East of England and in collaboration with a skilled make up artist. It combines spectacular visual transformations with funny and touching performances. It is close up and 3D especially for you. | |||||
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Make Like You Believe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix Arts, Leicester | 36306 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71751 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Notes: | devised by James Yarker. | |||||
Synopsis: | Twenty-five lost souls try summoning up some kind of ultimate answer from one of the twentieth century's most popular and widely exploited works of art. It's loud, messy and confused. There are excellent gags. There's running around and, if you squint, it might just be strangely moving. | |||||
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Ocean Of Storms | ||
| 1st Produced: | 35221 | |||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #157160 | |||
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Genre: | piece 60 min | |||||
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Synopsis: | 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 girl lost in a city, to explore a range of ideas about home, proximity and intimacy. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XVI (1996) Page 0901 - [Theatre: MacRoberts Arts Centre - Glas.] | |||||
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Devised by Simon Ford And James Yarker, with Denise Stanton And Jack Trow | Odyssey Steps | |
| 1st Produced: | Clocktower, Croydon | 2009 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121577 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Devised by Simon Ford And James Yarker, with Denise Stanton And Jack Trow | |||||
Synopsis: | This is described on this Birmingham-based company's website as "the latest in a series of 'not quite theatre' shows that have brought Stan's Cafe international acclaim". Not quite theatre? I agree, for this is not an interaction between actor and performer but a piece where the audience member becomes performer, following a 'script' laid out as vinyl images placed on floor, walls and other surfaces to lead them on a journey theoretically enabling them to act out the incidents of the story. the concept is described as inspired by teach-yourself-to-dance floor mats and presumably you are intended to place your feet - and perhaps hands too - directly on the positions marked out by vinyl stickers. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Of All the People In All the World | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warwick: Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL >>> | 37753 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #157159 | |||
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Genre: | installation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by James Yarker | |||||
Synopsis: | a large-scale installation measuring humanity in rice. What does the population of Coventry look like measured out in rice? A team of enigmatic auditors arrive at Warwick Arts Centre with 674kg of rice, a grain for everyone in the country. Over four days they will carefully weigh out a huge series of provocative statistics: everyone born today, all the millionaires in the country, everyone who is HIV positive, all the coal miners in Britain, all the doctors in the world. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXVIII (2008) Page 1065 - [Theatre: A. E. Harris Factory - Birmingham] | |||||
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Revolutionary Steps | ||
| 1st Produced: | 40395 | |||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120092 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | produced by Stan's Cafe and Department of Performing Arts De Montfort University | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of Danton's Death has leaked out of the Olivier Theatre and into the foyer, up the stairs and all around the National. The script' for this radically reimagined version of the French Revolution story is marked out in vinyl footprints, handprints and speech bubbles waiting for you to perform it. Solve the mini performance puzzles to work out what happens in each scene and make the piece your own; act it out with friends and family of all ages. Be playful. Be revolutionary. Have fun. Revolutionary Steps is the most recent in the Steps Series by the adventurous theatre company Stan's Cafe. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Simple Maths | ||
| 1st Produced: | Coventry: Belgrade Theatre Studio, Belgrade Square, Coventry CV1 1GS >>> | 35739 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #173709 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Six chairs in the waiting room - five people have to arrange themselves on them in the correct order. And all the while they are thinking thoughts about each other | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Spy Steps | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warwick: Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL >>> | 39961 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #157161 | |||
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Notes: | produced by Stan's Cafe and Department of Performing Arts De Montfort University | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by teach-yourself-to-dance floor mats, Stan's Cafe invites YOU to perform this new play. Instructions for the performance are clearly printed out as vinyl footsteps and speech bubbles applied to Warwick Arts Centre's walls, floors, windows and doors. They spill out onto campus waiting for you to follow them. By choosing which colour footsteps to stand in you can cast yourself and your friends in the show, an action packed, clich celebrating thriller that re-imagines the University Campus as the secret Head Quarters of an evil genius. Everyone is welcome. Pick up a map from Box Office at any time; the show starts when you start. Come alone or with any number of friends. You can rehearse, repeat your favourite scenes, cut bits you're not happy with, maybe even go off script and improvise. Be your own audience. Have fun. Spy Steps is the latest in a series of not-quite-theatre shows that have gained Stan's Cafe, popular and critical acclaim around the world. Previous appearances at Warwick Arts Centre include The Cleansing of Constance Brown and the rice installation, Of All The People In All The World. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Translation Of Shadows, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warwick: Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL >>> | 42116 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33094 | |||
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Genre: | piece 60 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 including film cast | ||
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Notes: | written by Craig Stephens and James Yarker | |||||
Synopsis: | Have you ever fallen in love someone in a film? It's easily done. When silent film first arrived in Japan, a narrator called a Benshi was employed to explain the movie and you would fall in love with them. They were the stars and they guided you through their interpretation of the screen images. Though once mighty and numerous, the dominance of the Benshi was short-lived. 'The talkies' eventually killed them off. But now the Benshi is back, in all his glory! Stan's Cafe have been to Tokyo with film-maker Oliver Clark and shot Shadows, a beautiful and mysterious silent movie about a young couple in love, all that remains is for the Benshi to tell us what every shot and symbol means, who the actors are, why he loves them, why the director is terrible, when and why we should cry and laugh, what will happen in the end, why he is the greatest, most indispensable Benshi in history and why we should fall in love with him. If only it was as simple as that. . . | |||||
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Tuning Out with Radio Z | ||
| 1st Produced: | 40311 | |||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72107 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in the studios of Radio Z, the play involves two presenters working through the night. Audience members will be invited to take a phone or laptop, send a text, submit images and make requests to devise the show live with the Stan's Cafe team. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Twilightofthefreakingods | ||
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham, A E Harris Factory | 41557 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101252 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Notes: | produced by Stan's Cafe and Department of Performing Arts De Montfort University | |||||
Synopsis: | based on Gotterdammerung, the final part of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Cheekily retitled Twilightofthefreakingods, Stan's Cafe's reinterpretation of Wagner's stirring epic - a battle between humans and Gods inspired by Norse mythology - is described by the company as "a large-scale theatrical experiment" as the story unfolds simultaneously over 255 minutes across three performance spaces totalling 2,000 square metres. Filled with subtle echoes from previous Stan's Cafe shows, this unique site-specific production will be performed just twice by a cast of 13 who, without any rehearsals, will work from individual instructions and timetables. Unlike conventional scripts, these will not include dialogue, and each actor will only see their own specific directions. With raked and cabaret styled seating available and a bar open throughout serving flaming cocktails as well as snacks and more familiar drinks, audience members can choose how to watch the show. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Voodoo City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Opening Moving Parts Season, MAC, Birmingham | 34745 | ||||
Organisations: | Stan's Cafe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66930 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | 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 through familiar strategies of reading general Birmingham madness as evidence of shamanistic practice, we came to a show which is about, amongst other things, trying to change the world through private acts of magic. The show starts with a long poem written as a spell. It then crashes into an unchoreographed dance. From there to: an act of possession, image making, domestic magic, slapstick, more dancing and the building of a model city. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XV (1995) Page 0352 - [Theatre: BAC Studio 1] | |||||
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