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getting to know the neighbours
Chris Corcoran is the new Craig and it’s great to have him back on the Stan roster for the first time since our Morality Shopping escapade on Bromsgrove High Street in 1994. Strange though that with new performers on stage you start to learn fresh details about the show. With Fiona’s arrival in Mainz came […]
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Tags: Montpellier, Stan's Cafe, The Cleansing of Constance Brown
Montpellier
The Cleansing of Constance Brown opens tonight in the elegant surroundings of the Domaine d’O, Montpellier. Director Christopher Crimes specialises in the development and establishing of new venues/programmes. He first booked Stan for a European version of the rice at the impressive Theatre le Quai, in Angers, 2 years ago. Here in Montpellier he is […]
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Tags: Chateau d'O, Domaine d'O, Montpellier, ofallthepeopleinalltheworld, Stan's Cafe, The Cleansing of Constance Brown, thericeshow
no strings attached
We left Mainz this morning, the company dispersing via Frankfurt airport or the Hauptbahnhof. It has been an excellent, if very tiring week. Our hosts at the Festival, namely Nike and Tom, have been incredibly warm and generous to us. They loved the show and were only sorry that not more people could have seen […]
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Tags: mainz, mainzer kammerspiele, Stan's Cafe
figurentheater und mehr
The Cleansing of Constance Brown is performing it’s Deutschlandpremiere here at the Mainzer Kammerspiele as part of the ‘No Strings Attached’ puppet theatre Festival. This may seem strange, given there are no puppets (lest you count the team’s deft manipulation of the Orange Billowing Mass – the animate bag of air which swallows stage and […]
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Tags: figurentheater, mainz, The Cleansing of Constance Brown, theatre
Pilot night
Last thursday, 2nd July, the latest Pilot Night was hosted at the A.E.Harris space and there was palpable excitement. The presented work was challenging, bold, varied and often entertaining. Too rarely is there a sense of collective pride about what can be achieved on the West Mids Arts scene, but here – assisted enormously by […]
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Tags: a.e.harris, Birmingham, contextualisation, Jewellery Quarter, Kindle Theatre, Needless Allies, New Macho, Pilot, pilotnights, Stan's Cafe, The Other Way Works, theatre
Super Prix 2009
Not since the heady days of the late 80’s (hands up those who witnessed our City’s attempts to emulate Monaco?) has Brum been so brrrrruuuummmmmmed….. I’m hoping that the accompanying images speak for themselves – because, in the absence of the continuous, faux-sporting commentary supplied by James and Craig, it is difficult to describe the […]
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Tags: birminghamsuprprix jewelleryquarter, lemansroadrace, scalextric, stanscafe 24hourscalextric birmingham aeharris
Scale-hex-tricks
When I was about 7, I dreamt of a giant train set, which covered the entire surface of Northfield Manor Infants School Playground. In my mind it was only ever seen from one angle; and so subsequent flashbacks to that particular memory appear as if photographic. I know that the trains should be running (across […]
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Tags: a.e.harris, black maze, chapman brothers, miniatur wunderland, scalextric, spy steps, stanscafe, warwick arts centre
A second opening night
Constance Brown seems so long ago – we’re up and running with the rice show and, to quench the thirst of a stat-driven animal, I’ll admit that in the opening 2 days we lost count after the first 1750 people through the doors…. Bill, the HarbourFront CEO, and Tina, the programming director, have been hugely […]
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Get-in 2 / 2 get together
It’s a big day for the remaining Stan posse. Whilst Billy supervises the load-up of the Constance Brown set – back into it’s shipping container, the rice arrives at the Harbourfront in readiness for Day 1 of the get-in and a quick cab dash at lunchtime will see us at the City Hall, where Nina […]
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The Commentators
The Commentators is an unlikely phenomenon that has become the latest addition to the Stan’s Cafe portfolio. Since the success of Stan’s 24-hour Scalextric, collaborations with Birmingham Royal Ballet and the BCMG are in the offing. This is a project with educational potential too. The idea has already been picked up as a literacy tool […]
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Tags: Commentators, Project Eastside, Stan's Cafe