‘…the most glorious entertainment for ages. Love of theatre triumphantly re-established: I have nothing to declare but ‘Spyski’s genius’.
TIME OUT * * * * * *
Booking for Spyski is being handled by Kate McGrath at Fuel
Spyski is available for foreign touring.
The Spyski Student Study Guide is downloadable from the Lyric’s Department of Creative Learning. Click here to get it.
Created by Peepolykus. Written by Steve Canny and John Nicholson.
Directed by David Farr.
Music by Pete Coyte. Design by Tom Piper. Lighting by Jon Clark.
Sound by Nick Manning
Produced by Kate McGrath of Fuel. A co-production between Peepolykus and Lyric Hammersmith in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Warwick Arts Centre. Spyski is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Pssst…following their West End hit comedy, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Peepolykus have stumbled upon a story of international espionage and state secrets. With government agents watching their every move, Peepolykus will stop at nothing to reveal the truth.
Unfortunately, they’re in rehearsals for The Importance of Being Earnest – but that’s not going to stop them… Don’t miss this brand new show as Peepolykus take on the CIA, FSB and FBI – you’ll be shaken, stirred and in stitches with laughter.
Spyski 2008/09 UK tour: Lyric Hammersmith, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Nuffield Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northern Stage Newcastle.
‘Theatre has renewed its licence to laugh…Spyski justifies every one of the adjectives that get flung too readily at this sort of high-comic caper. So if words such as ‘uproarious’, ‘anarchic’, ‘joyful’, still have any purchase, their hour has come’. THE TIMES * * * * *
‘Comedy theatre with this much discipline, this much flair, doesn’t come along often. It’s not great art. But it’s stunning entertainment’. THE TIMES * * * * *
‘…a gloriously daft spy spoof. You surely won’t see anything dafter this side of the panto season’. DAILY MAIL
‘Peepolykus have come up with an ingenious idea… a cracking script from Nicholson and Canny and delightful performances, not least from Javier Marzan’
EVENING STANDARD * * * *
‘Enough theatrical lunacy and zingy one liners to cheer up the most jaded of souls’ METRO * * *
‘Dazzling… Simple-seeming gags are transformed into theatrical gems’
The Observer
AND THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY…..!
‘Spyski is such lameski entertainment that there might be more fun to be had staying home and ingesting a little Polonium 210’. LYN GARDNER, WRITING IN THE GUARDIAN * *
Download and read the full reviews of Spyski here:
Times review 15-10-08-1.pdf
Time Out review 23-10-08.pdf
Daily Mail review 15-10-08.pdf
Daily Telegraph review 16-10-08-1.pdf
Evening Standard review 15-10-08.pdf
Metro review 15-10-08-1.pdf