Fire- Performance

After the first rep season in Year One, the second year is spent almost entirely in rehearsal and performance. Working as a professional Rep Company, delivering visceral, bold and original new work, the second year of the project is professional practice coupled with an industry showcase and professional preparation classes, culminating at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Autumn Season

Working collaboratively from September, and with the support of an experienced directorial and creative team, as well as a large production budget, the ensemble will embark on an extensive devising and rehearsal period toward an original piece of new theatre to be delivered on the London stage in November. The production will run for a three-week period and will mark the start of a year of professional original theatre creation and presentation with the only limitation on the heights of the work being the imagination.

Spring Season

As above, the company will embark on their second production season of devised work, this time, two pieces to be delivered in repertory.

Industry Showcase

At the end of the spring season of productions in London the company will work towards an industry showcase in a central London venue.

Delivered to an invited audience of industry movers and shakers; from agents to casting directors, directors and producers the showcase presents the opportunity of making industry contacts, gaining representation and building relationships to the actor.

With extensive contacts within the industry, the Fourth Monkey showcase offers an opportunity to present your work to some of the most prolific and highly regard agents and professionals within the field of the performing arts.

Equally, unlike some showcase productions, the Fourth Monkey offering is one one that presents each individual on the training programme in an equal light, with a balanced distribution of stage time. We want all of you to shine

Summer Season

With the Edinburgh Festival on the horizon for the duration of August, the company will begin pre-production and rehearsals in early May to create three pieces to take to Edinburgh to be performed in rep. This challenging yet exciting conclusion to the ensemble year, undoubtedly being the most rewarding and the culmination of the collective effort and collaboration fostered throughout the two years.

Edinburgh and beyond...

The largest and regarded as the most significant arts festival in the world, the place where the Two Year Rep programme delivers its final three pieces of work, in repertory throughout the whole of August.

With a significant Edinburgh reputation and presence, having delivered previous sell-out and critically acclaimed productions Fourth Monkey very much see Edinburgh as a second home and are regarded as a staple part of many an Edinburgh Fringe diet, people miss us when we’re not there we are told by the press and photographers we know- that’s really nice!

Performing in one of the most high profile fringe venues, just off the Royal Mile itself the company will premiere their three productions in rep and unleash these pieces on the Edinburgh public, critics and associated and affiliated industry professionals. This, with the objective of receiving not only full houses and critical acclaim but also subsequent transfers and tours of these new pieces of work. Working alongside a production team, with a track record of doing exactly this, the Two Year Rep programme very much has the potential to continue in a professional capacity beyond the end of August.

We want to employ you beyond Edinburgh… we will attempt to facilitate the means to do so, in fact this is very much our objective! A nice way to end a ‘training’ programme we think…