Spymonkey Under the Influence

Spymonkey is the country’s foremost comedy theatre company, creating & performing theatre, site-specific & cabaret work, touring the UK & internationally. With roots in physical theatre, circus, street theatre & site-specific work we create a distinctive brand of dark, edgy theatre that lies “somewhere between Monty Python, the Marx Brothers & Samuel Beckett” (The Houston Chronicle).As an independent, project funded company who have been creating work for over 20 years we have extensive experience of creating successful, accessible, mid-scale shows & touring them in the UK & abroad.Alongside our theatre shows, we offer education & training opportunities as professional development for the next generation of physcial comedy performers. These are led by our artistic directors and take place in the UK and across the world.

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Spymonkey discuss the many great influences on their work

Spymonkey are excited to offer an exciting new webinar with Spymonkey Artistic Directors Toby Park and Aitor Basauri who take stock, with the help of some choice illustrative clips and images, on the influences on their work: from those whose practices have steered their lives such as the great clown teacher Philippe Gaulier, Spymonkey director Cal McCrystal, Swiss action heroes KKG, through to greats of physical comedy - Keaton, Normand, Marx Bros, Sellers, Python, Conway &amp; Korman.90 minsTickets £12/ £15 / £20 depending on affordabilityAs before, we ask you to consider which ticket bracket you can reasonably afford. All income made from these sessions goes directly to covering the costs of keeping Spymonkey going while we’re unable to make work or run our training in person.If you have access needs, please let us know how we can address these to best support you to engage with the sessions, this includes captioning and BSL.Bursary placesAs before, we will build on our Brassmonkey Bursary scheme by offering 10% of spaces on this workshop programme free of charge to African diaspora people, South, East and South East Asian people or people from other ethnically diverse backgrounds, and to artists with disabilities. These sessions will be offered on a first-come first-served basis by contacting Natasha Britton on natasha@spymonkey.co.uk with details of which sessions you’d like to attend.If you are a theatre maker who is of African diaspora, are South, East or South East Asian or from an ethnically diverse background, and you are particularly interested in making physical comedy theatre, we’d like to hear from you.If you are a theatre-maker with disabilities and particularly interested in making physical comedy theatre we’d like to hear from you.

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