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Cooped, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Aitor Basauri, Stephen Kreiss, Petra Massey, Toby Park.

Twenty glorious years in the making, and still the riotous laughter keeps coming, for Brighton-based theatre company Spymonkey; there is no sitting delicately on laurels, resting in the plumped up leather chair beside the roaring fire and passion of the audience, even returning to one of the foursome’s early successes means being match fit, confining themselves to the bird house until the pen sparks life once more.

A Frightfully Festive Treat As Liverpool Playhouse Announce A Unique Take On Dickens Classic A Christmas Carol For Christmas 2018.

 

         U.K.’s leading physical comedy company Spymonkey return to Liverpool for a collaboration with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres

The Liverpool Playhouse has announced an alternative take on Charles Dickens’ festive ghost story A Christmas Carol as their Christmas production for 2018.

The perfect Christmas show for lovers of laughter and music, Charles Dickens’ greatest tale will be brought to life in splendidly festive fashion by artists of comedic invention and madcap delight, Spymonkey from 8th December 2018 to 12th January 2019.

Oedipussy, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

O Picture by Johan Perrson

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 15th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast:  Aitor Basauri, Stephen Kreiss, Petra Massey, Toby Park.

You can sit there all night thinking of the best way to describe Spymonkey’s Oedipussy, scratch your head and explain what you’ve seen in words that are both fitting to the company and the creators behind one of the great adaptations of Greek theatre. What it all boils down too, is that the team behind Spymonkey are pure and utter comic geniuses!