Stan’s Cafe is a theatre company (and charity). We make our work collaboratively, following exciting ideas wherever they take us, sometimes into theatres.
We love working in schools with students and teachers. Often we help out other people because we love seeing other people make great art.
We started in 1991 and we are more excited than ever before.
Please have fun zipping around our website.
- Gates Foundation Collaboration
While performing Of All The People In All The World at the Kennedy Center in 2023 some enthusiastic audience members introduced themselves as employees of The Gates Foundation. We discussed… Read more: Gates Foundation Collaboration - Pound Road Productions
Back in July I got an email from Kalman at Pound Road Productions. A change of dates had put them into trouble with rehearsal space, could we help? As it… Read more: Pound Road Productions - Hetain Patel 2
15 years ago I shared my admiration for the work of Hetain Patel, which I had encountered for the first time. Sincethen I have been vaguely following him from afar… Read more: Hetain Patel 2
Of All The People In All The World: TEDx
Diary
Of All The People In All The World
12, 13, 19, 20 December 2025
Gates Foundation Discovery Center
(Mini-Version) Free Entry
6 – 9 March 2026
WOMADelaide, Australia
Tickets can be found here.
25 – 28 March 2026
Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury
Free admission
The Commentators
7 – 9 March 2026
WOMADelaide, Australia
Tickets can be found here.
River Tours: The Avon
Dates to be announced
River Tours: The Daugava
Dates to be announced
River Tours: The Niger
Dates to be announced
Space Hire
We have spaces to hire for rehearsals and meetings. Our big hall (see photograph), plus two classrooms which are easily big enough to rehearse studio shows in. There is also a shared Green Room and hot-desking space. We’re running a ‘pre-Edinburgh’ special offer at the moment. We’re on Umberslade Road in Selly Oak, just 10 minutes walk from the train station, plus buses on Bristol & Pershore Road AND the Number 11, plus there is always parking round here. COME!
River Tours
Guided tours of rivers, performed live, indoors or out, illustrated by especially commissioned textile ribbon maps. The library is growing three new maps are currently in various stages of research and preparation, one in Africa, one in the Baltic states and one in England. All due for completion in 2026..
The Commentators
An improvised walkabout performance (unless they’re sat down) in which two sports commentators describe everyday life in too much detail. Catch them live in person or streamed live online.
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The Many Lives Of PET #1
A complicated comedy about a plastic bottle. When the newly appointed Minister for the Environment arrives at work he finds an anti-plastic protester aleady there making demands. Big Business (“Just call me Big”) is summoned but proves reluctant to do anything that will cost them money. It is only PET (the minister’s discarded water bottle) that can see a way through this crisis.
After audiences loved the initial community tour. This fast funny and informative show is coming back Summer 2025.
