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STAN'S CAFE |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
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.
Plays by Stan's Cafe
Be Proud Of Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Devised by Amanda Hadingue, Craig Stephens, James Yarker | |||||
Synopsis: | scenes from a thriller play out in the blurred brain of an amateur hitman. He seems to be recalling how he tracked down a research chemist in some European City but can't distinguish his real and covert identities, his genuine and fake memories | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Maze, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | |||
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: | mixed media Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a mixed-media labyrinth in the back of a lorry | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cleansing Of Constance Brown, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fierce festival, Birmingham | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | |||
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: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 performers | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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: | - | |||||
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Good And True | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | |||
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 70 min Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Devised by Sarah Archdeacon, Amanda Hadingue, Craig Stephens, Nick Walker | |||||
Synopsis: | explores how questions produce more queries than answers. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Home Of The Wriggler | ||
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham, A E Harris Factory | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | |||
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: | 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: | - | |||||
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It's Your Film | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canary Wharf, London | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | |||
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: | 4 min piece One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Just Price Of Flowers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham: old metal pressings factory A E Harris | 15 Jun 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | an off site production by Birmingham Rep | |||||
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: | - | |||||
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Odyssey Steps | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clocktower, Croydon | 2009 | ||||
Company: | 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 | |||
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: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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: | Birmingham, A E Harris factory | 2008 | ||||
Company: | 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 | |||
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: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by James Yarker | |||||
Synopsis: | a large-scale installation measuring humanity in rice | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Simple Maths | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Music Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire | 08 Nov 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | |||
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: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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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Tuning Out with Radio Z | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Oct 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | |||
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: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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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Voodoo City | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | |||
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 Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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