At home with the Spanner lads… Mending the world’s problem with theatre, or at least having a good go. Look out of the Spanner window and see how strange normal can be.
Click here to find out more about Spanner’s current project, ‘Theatre Scrapbook’, a constantly evolving collection of theatre shows and fragments created with ‘real people’ for ‘real people’.
Click here to find out more about past shows: the performance sketch that gathers when overactive minds and surplus energies explode on unsuspecting audiences.
Click here to find out more about Spanner’s education practices and workshops. Spanner is for everyone…time to get your Spanner on.
Click here to contact the Spanner lads. Without people, our theatre tools are redundant. We are here for your every query...
Click here to contribute to Spanner’s work. Spanner is all about the confusions that arise from your experience of the world…so tell us anything you’d like to get off your chest, and we’ll Spannerise it with theatre.
Click here to find more out about the spanners who run Spanner: who we are, what we believe, and how we’re trying to mend the broken bits in reality.
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What Spanner believe

We believe that Theatre is at its best when it is engages directly with people's experience of life. By doing this Spanner Theatre aims to provide people with the oppotunity to laugh, gasp and cry at things which become so habitual that we don't even notice them anymore - The beautiful weirdness and weird beauty of day to day living

We want to encourage young people that their own experiences of life and their reactions to it are valid starting points for creating theatre.

When we look outside, into the world, at a first glance everything seems to be relatively normal but when you look a bit closer and really start to question why people are behaving in certain ways and believe certain things it just seems to get stranger and stranger until 'normal' doesn't seem to exist anymore.

Or maybe it's just us... are we dereanged or plagued with some sort of illness...should we phone the insane asylum?
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