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Audience Manual is a 10 minute pre-performance demonstration of how to be a theatre audience suitable for theatre bars and foyers. Created and performed with Simon Day, Spanner offer a few useful hints and tips to audiences before they enter a show such as the inherent dangers in eating too many sweets, stressing the impotance of remembering that 'It's not real' and that if you hear a strange annoucement it's probably a bomb under the theatre so...PANICK!

The Three Musketeers tells the well known story the best way that Spanner, with Simon Day can manage. They all like to fight eachother and run around and they all have GCSE french so as long as you don't feel compelled to correct shoddy grammar then sit back and be entertained.

Cargo is Spanner's latest collaboration with Simon Day and takes the formation of Cargo Cults as it's starting point. Enjoy the simple beautiful lives of the islanders after you've travelled safely there with the performers but be careful you don't disturb what lies beneath the surface of the sea... a mancunian hip-hopping shark.
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