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Having finished last week with our second run through of “Hellcats” we felt confident that we had a strong story and rich material. However having Steve shout ‘edit’ at the end of each scene slightly jarred with the visual style of the...

So that was our Shakespeare Comedies season, a mixture of clown inspired madness and ensemble playing! The season marked Fourth Monkey’s Year of the Monkey student’s first foray into the work of the Bard in a performance setting, and they...

In the last blog I mentioned how when deciding on what our piece would be about we agreed that any form of war was to be excluded from the equation. Well now two weeks into the rehearsal process we have included a battle, canons, a heist,...

“A monster play, a monster challenge yet a wonderful delight.” After what seemed like a lifetime in the rehearsal room pulling this majestic and magnificent play apart, Tamburlaine arrived, played and closed in a mere heartbeat in March. A...

Our second years are currently in a particularly exciting rehearsal room devising a piece with Told by an Idiot associate Stephen Harper. Two year rep company member Miranda Horn will be documenting their devising project on a weekly basis...

Over the past few months filmmaker Paul Wyatt has come into the Fourth Monkey world and captured some of the work we do. The trailer features some of our students past and present giving a flavour of the training we provide and its...

The new year promises to be an exciting one for Fourth Monkey with reimagined work from Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporary Christopher Marlowe on the menu for our One Year and Two Year Rep students respectively. A season of...

The tour kicked off very early for all of us! I believe I was in Steve Green’s car by about seven am along with Ami (Mrs Treves, Sister Ireland, Lady Knightley) and Zara (Costume and set designer). We were off! At this point the show felt...

The first reviews are in for our touring production of Elephant Man performed by the Fourth Monkey Ensemble see below for our most recent review from The Stage. Elephant Man **** Published 10 November 2014 by Pat Ashworth   Daniel Chrisostomou's...