(1:49) Shot for The Media Workshop in London during the Great Fire 350 celebrations in 2016.
(1:16) Three Catholic cardinals are on an evangelical mission, touring a puppet show to broaden knowledge of the Bible. But for this performance, the puppets have gone missing—and the cardinals are forced to take their place on the miniature stage.
(1:18) What makes a river special is what happens along it, on it and in it.
Spend a relaxing and engaging hour with Craig Stephens, from the theatre company Stan’s Cafe, as he takes us on a trip down the river thames. Our journey, brimming with nature, history, inspiring art and design, tales of sewerage and ceaseless human invention is illustrated by a beautiful 1.7m long textile ribbon map made by the artist Vicky Roden. Beautifully written, engagingly performed, witty and educational. This simple piece of documentary storytelling is a high quality treat.
(1:10) In the relentless flow of the city, to stand still is to fall behind, to rest is to lose, and to idle is to see the madness of it all. Welcome to The Capital.
Stan’s Cafe’s latest production brings the cinematic tracking shot to the stage with theatrical playfulness. Sliding down streets, through walls, into and out of nightclubs, through kitchens and tube trains, bedsits and boardrooms, The Capital follows five contrasting lives as they weave through the city, crossing and colliding.
Produced in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, The Capital is an audacious piece of wordless visual theatre making. Built entirely on twin moving walkways, its action flows seamlessly back and forth as the consequences of inequity in social and financial capital are given physical form and translated into witty and emotionally charged stories of people we pass every day on our streets.
(2:33) Extracts from Stan's Cafe's adaptation of Robert Burton's book 'The Anatomy Of Melancholy'
The Anatomy of Melancholy has been described as "the greatest book ever written". Nearly 400 years old, it is a vast, 1500-page attempt to identify the causes, symptoms, and cures for all kinds of melancholy. Written by vicar and librarian Robert Burton, it contains all the wisdom of its age - arcane, outlandish, and hilarious. Yet, amidst all the wild stories and suppositions, much of its advice remains as urgent and profound now as it did then.
Ten years ago, a Serbian Festival Director challenged Stan's Cafe to adapt this, his favorite book, for the stage, stating that they were the only company he could imagine pulling it off. So this is our attempt to bring The Anatomy Of Melancholy, perhaps the world's most extraordinary self-help manual, to the stage.
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