November 2008

Time Out brands Peepolykus’ new show Spyski “genius” and “the most glorious entertainment for ages”. Dominic Maxwell for The Times writes that “if words such as uproarious, anarchic, joyful still have any purchase, their hour has come”, and
the Daily Mail applauds Spyski as a “Gloriously daft new spy spoof….the Marx Brothers meets Oscar Wilde meets The Bourne Identity”.

So here we are, mid way through November, and the accolades have rolled in for our new show. After four weeks at the Lyric in Hammersmith, Spyski has just sold out its two week run at West Yorkshire Playhouse and is currently wowing audiences at Warwick Arts Centre. We have had interest from promoters abroad to take the show and are looking forward to taking it out on tour again next spring where it will play other UK venues such as Liverpool Playhouse and Winchester Theatre Royal. Full details of the tour will be announced soon.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Peepolykus front, we are looking forward to meeting up with Forkbeard Fantasy, Hoodwink Theatre, Big State Theatre and Hazel Grain from the Watershed in early December to develop ideas for the “Stonehenge on Tour” project. “Henge”, as we refer to it at the mo, will be a massive outdoor performance involving individuals, artists, performers and communities from all over the south west region and forms part of the celebrations leading up to the Olympics in 2012.