Ticket Information
There is no set duration for your visit. Visitors are welcome to stay as long as they wish.
opening times
Fri 11 July: 11.30am-6.30pm
Sat 12 July: 12pm-7pm
Sun 13 July: 11.30am-6.30pm
Mon 14 July: 12pm-7pm
Tue 15 July: 11.30am-4.30pm
Dates & times
For this beautifully simple performance Stan’s Cafe convert human population statistics into a landscape of labelled rice piles in which one grain = one person. In this way numbers once abstract and difficult to grasp are given physical scale, become easy to understand and gain a powerful emotional kick.
By arranging these statistics in careful relationship to each other Stan’s Cafe create a piece that is politically engaged, subtly witty, shocking and humane. It is educational, poetic and provocative. Audiences regularly laugh out loud, admit to being brought to the edge of tears and leave saying this installation has changed the way in which they look at the world.
Of All The People In All The World was first performed in 2003. It has been presented around the world and is made afresh, bespoke for every venue. It will grow in its time with us and evolve in response to visitor’s suggestions.
The rice used in this performance is sponsored by Tilda and will return with Stan’s Cafe to Birmingham ready for its next outing.
"You learn more in five minutes in this show than reading the whole of the New York Times."Lou Reed
“I have seen hundreds and hundreds of exhibits and installations. This is by far the most intelligent and sensitive ever. Highly political, yet with a superb idea of ‘abstracting’ reality, coinciding extreme contradictions, events and political processes into rice grain dimensions – absolutely brilliant.”Audience Comments Book, Stuttgart 2005
more about the company
Stan’s Cafe is one of the UK’s foremost independent theatre companies. Founded in 1991 they have a vast back catalogue of highly inventive productions in a great array of settings. Find out more on their website.
Image credit: Graeme Braidwood
