Stan’s Cafe is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary theatre companies, famous for experimental theatre in unusual locations. If you went to last year’s Arts Fest you may remember their brilliant ‘Of All The People In All The World’ – a performance which used huge piles of rice representing people of the world. Their new production … [Read more…]
I don’t want to come across like an advert for football on Sky, but there are three things happening in Birmingham this weekend and they’re all (to coin a phrase) kind of a big deal: Project X Presents (Sat 13th, 8pm to 3am) – this promises to be very cool indeed. Comedy, music, visuals, weird … [Read more…]
Artsfest is a big sprawling beast of a festival and a difficult one to wrangle from a listings perspective. A few people have chipped in with their take on how things could/should be presented but for me, while all of them help in some way, none of them really hit the nail on the head. … [Read more…]
Birmingham theatre company Stan’s Cafe are presenting their show Of All The People In All The World in Birmingham from 13 September to 5 October. Since 2003, when a smaller ‘UK version’ was shown in Birmingham Cathedral, the show has visited (among others) Australia, Slovenia, Canada, the USA, Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain … [Read more…]
An interesting an impassioned polemic from James Yarker of Stan’s Cafe appeared on The Birmingham Post’s site the other day, and includes this paragraph: Let’s get to those rooms above pubs, street corners, concert halls, village halls, school halls, libraries, fields and theatres, where real live people are performing for real live audiences and sharing … [Read more…]