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SPYMONKEY |
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Nationality: British/English/Spanish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Brighton-based Spymonkey first met in Zurich, Switzerland in 1997 whilst performing with action theatre company Karls Kuhne Gassenschau. Spymonkey founders, Petra Massey, Toby Park and Aitor Basauri. Performers and Co-creators, Stephan Kriess, Petra Massey, Toby Park and Aitor Basauri. Cal McCrystal, Director and Co-creator. Lucy Bradridge, Designer. Kathy Bourne, Manager.
Plays by Spymonkey
Cooped | ||
| 1st Produced: | Komedia Brighton | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Spymonkey | |||||
| 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 | #49301 | |||
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Genre: | Devised physical comedy Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A misty night. A young girl arrives at a remote railway station in the heart of darkest Northumberlandshirehampton to take up her position as confidential secretary to the reclusive Forbes Murdston. She has ignored for as long as she can the unsettling rumours that surround her new employer, his ominous manservant Klaus and the ancient stone house. But Murdston's violent moodswings can only signify one thing: INSANITY! Her terrible dreams seem to warn of some impending calamity. If only she could get word to Inspector Judadench to warn him. In her desperation she turns to the trusty family lawyer Roger Parchment. But how can she leave Forbes now, now that he is so close to finishing his memoirs? How can she leave him when she has grown to love him? Yes, now. . . now she is truly. . . COOPED! | |||||
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Jekyll and Hyde | ||
| 1st Produced: | Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Southwold, Sunrise Coast, Suffolk >>> | 14 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Lyric Hammersmith | |||||
| 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 | #126153 | |||
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Genre: | theatrical extravaganza | |||||
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Notes: | the production has been created in conjunction with Spymonkey and Peepolykus and is directed by Sean Holmes and written by Joel Horwood. | |||||
Synopsis: | Experience Jekyll and Hyde with a difference | |||||
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Moby Dick | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Sep 2009 | |||||
Company: | Spymonkey | |||||
| 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 | #101857 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Play By Jos Houben from novel by Melville | |||||
Synopsis: | It's shorter than the book, its funnier than the book, its's got more visual gags, ventriloquist's dolls, disco dancing sea creatures and singing mermaid mastheads than the book. | |||||
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Oedipussy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northampton: Royal Theatre, Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1DP >>> | 03 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | Royal & Derngate, Northampton co-production with Spymonkey | |||||
| 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 | #134886 | |||
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Genre: | physical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | adaptation by Emma Rice, written by Spymonkey andCarl Grose | |||||
Synopsis: | an outrageous no-holds barred subversion of the quintessential Greek tragedy - a tale of forbidden lust, accidental incest, violent murder and the ultimate dysfunctional family. | |||||
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Stiff. . . Undertaking Undertaking | ||
| 1st Produced: | Komedia Brighton | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Spymonkey | |||||
| 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 | #33029 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Devised physical comedy Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Forbes Murdston, the great tragedian, has suffered writer's block for years. But now at last he has his own personal tragedy to draw upon. After the loss of his wife Morag, he is driven to express the depths of his sorrow by gathering around him an enthusiastic (but totally incompetent) troupe of actors to produce a moving tribute to his dear, departed love. Mr Keller the embalmer, Alfredo Graves the pall-bearer and Mandy Bandy the make-up artiste are determined to make a night of it. | |||||
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