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We build long-term partnerships with the most exciting arts organisations in the UK.
The Comedy Store Since 2019
7 October ’24
It looks like Michael's on stage with his new improv troupe – the lovely team at The Comedy Store.
Bringing the laughs and custom ticketing solutions
The Comedy Store
10 March ’20
Jen's pushing the big red button to get the Comedy Store site live.
5 March ’20
Tommy and Seb, from The Comedy Store are here to chat about a final polish of their new website (going live very soon). They bought us gifts of mango bubble tea. Cheers!
30 January ’20
It's training day – The Comedy Store team are here to learn the ways of the web.
19 November ’19
Anna and Jen met the Comedy Store team (in person and on Skype) to look over the designs for their new site.
16 October ’19
The Comedy Store team are here. Anna is showing initial design ideas for a new website.
‘The best of stand up’ at The Comedy Store
Our September Cog night was a trip to Leicester Square's legendary The Comedy Store. It was Lydia's first Cog outing and we promised her 'the best of stand up'.
27 August ’19
Jen and Claire are at The Comedy Store, chatting about websites. A great excuse to grace that world-famous stage.
20 August ’19
Anna, Jen and Michael are in Manchester, getting to know the team at The Comedy Store.
Gulbenkian Arts Centre Since 2016
29 September ’21
Michael and Anna are in Canterbury, visiting Dave at The Gulbenkian.
1 October ’19
Lucy went down to Canterbury recently to visit the team at Gulbenkian.
13 November ’17
Michael's back in Canterbury, chatting websites with The Gulbenkian team.
16 October ’17
We're in Canterbury, visiting Dave and Jesse at the Gulbenkian.
30 May ’17
Dave and Jess, from The Gulbenkian, are here for training in their new website's content management system.
3 November ’16
Sam, Sæunn and Michael are in Canterbury, running a communications workshop at Gulbenkian.
Leicester Square Theatre Since 2022
19 September ’23
Today's focus is on our first big-on-sale via Leicester Square Theatre's new website. It went like clockwork.
RHLSTP (Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre podcast)
Rounding off an eventful discussion day, we took a trip to Leicester Square Theatre for this month’s Cog Night. Laura and Spencer share their thoughts.
27 January ’23
Laura's got a new very helpful WFH colleague.
10 January ’23
The lovely team from Leicester Square Theatre made the boat trip to see us (and initial work on a new brand and website).
6 January ’23
Spencer and Michael spent a fascinating hour with Martin Witts (and Tom McGreggor), learning all about the theatre and its remarkable history.
19 December ’22
We're at Leicester Square Theatre for A Pissedmas Carol.
29 November ’22
Michael and Spencer have been running a communications workshop with the lovely team at Leicester Square Theatre.
Marlowe Theatre Since 2009
9 January ’24
Back at The Marlowe, chatting with Ben and the team about branding, brochures and websites.
Oh yes we did – moving panto online
We helped theatres across the country stream their 2020 pantos online during local lockdowns.
Giving The Marlowe presence and personality
The Marlowe branding
27 June ’19
Tonie's casting her eyes over the proofs for The Marlowe season brochure.
20 May ’19
Laxmi is having a look through the new Marlowe brochures we've designed.
3 December ’18
Michael and Jack are being given a tour of The Kit in Canterbury – their guides are John, Ben and Helene from The Marlowe.
5 July ’18
Jack’s having a look at The Marlowe’s new venue, The Kit, before meeting with their senior management team to talk about changes to their site.
14 June ’18
Jack and Michael are at The Marlowe, chatting about ways to make their website even better.
5 April ’18
Anna's received a delivery of the colourful Marlowe Summer season brochures that we've designed.
27 March ’18
Anna and Michael are in Canterbury, strolling by our favourite theatre.
20 March ’18
It's lunchtime. Jason and Helene are here, from The Marlowe, and Ben is here, from Spektrix. We're talking ticketing and how we can make the their site even better for audiences
2 August ’17
Anna is getting busy checking through the proofs for Marlowe Theatre's season brochure.
30 June ’17
We're in Canterbury, celebrating the success of the website we've built for The Marlowe. Ben and Helene kindly posed to recreate a photo from 2011.
19 April ’17
John, Helene and Ben from The Marlowe are here. Becca is guiding them through the backstage scenes of their new website.
29 March ’17
Michael's at The Marlowe. His visit coincided with a photoshoot of the auditorium. He found himself on the set of Ray Cooney's Out of Order, with Helene and photographer Tim Stubbings.
15 March ’17
We're at Spektrix, with The Marlowe team, talking purchase paths and event instances.
15 February ’17
Jack, Becca and Michael are back in Canterbury. They're presenting website designs to the whole team at The Marlowe.
7 February ’17
Michael, Matt and Jack are in Canterbury, presenting initial website concepts to our friends at The Marlowe.
11 January ’17
We've taken some time out to chat about a big new commission for The Marlowe.
5 January ’17
In a brief gap between a long day of meetings, Michael's staked his claim on a quiet corner of The Green Room, at The Marlowe, in Canterbury.
13 December ’16
Michael, Becca and Anna are in Canterbury, running a communications workshop with the lovely people from The Marlowe.
17 October ’16
Anna's received the full set of Marlowe Autumn brochures.
17 May ’16
Michael and Anna are at The Marlowe in Canterbury. Here's Anna being given a tour of their wonderful, aisle free, theatre by Kate Evans and John Baker.
8 February ’16
Jenny's donned the headset. It must be time to take detailed amends for the latest season brochure for The Marlowe.
2 December ’15
Michael and Jenny are in Canterbury, chatting with The Marlowe team – Kate, John, Helene and Ben.
13 November ’15
Jenny has just received the new Studio brochures in the post from The Marlowe Theatre. She's blown way by the neon colour.
12 October ’15
It's fluoro-day, the day when Jenny gets to choose the colour for the next Studio brochure for The Marlowe.
5 October ’15
Jenny's been taking amends for the next season brochure for The Marlowe Theatre. She's all smiles, one hour in.
20 August ’15
Michael and Jenny are in an epic meeting with most of the staff from The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury.
5 August ’15
The proofs have arrived and are being checked by Jenny, bringing the curtain down on another round of season brochures for The Marlowe.
8 June ’15
Michael and Jenny are at The Marlowe in Canterbury, meeting with John and Kate to plan their next brochure.
12 March ’15
A surprise visit from The Marlowe's communications team. We went to Davy's for our first outdoor lunch of the year.
6 March ’15
Jenny and Michael are at The Marlowe, chatting about how to position their contemporary music offer.
2 October ’14
We've been at The Marlowe all day. Anti-clockwise from bottom left: John Baker, Helene Skoge, Mia Power, Sarah Munday, Ben Travis, Lucie Blockley, Amy Smith, oh and Michael.
28 August ’14
Ross is dazzled by our new issue of The Marlowe Theatre Studio brochure, printed in fluorescent (coincidentally Cog Green).
28 May ’14
Ocky and Michael are at the BFI cafe (one of our regular meeting points), talking to John Baker, from The Marlowe Theatre, about our new two year contract with them.
30 April ’14
Michael’s in Canterbury, taking photos of our branding work for The Green Room, the restaurant at The Marlowe Theatre. You can just about see him, reflected in the right hand window against the backdrop of the cathedral.
11 March ’14
Mike’s dazzled by our new issue of The Marlowe Theatre Studio brochure, printed in fluorescent.
27 January ’14
Ocky, loving the excuse to pop on a head-set, is on a lengthy phone call. He’s running through amends with the Marlowe team for their season brochure, which we produce with them 3 times a year.
5 December ’13
Our two new brochures for The Marlowe came in today. Ocky’s after some family fare in the main auditorium, whereas Mike’s looking for something more edgy in the Studio.
29 November ’13
Michael and Annelise have spent the day in Canterbury in back-to-back meetings at The Marlowe, including this gathering to talk about the interior design of their restaurant refurbishment.
15 October ’13
Greg’s checking proofs we’ve received of The Marlowe Theatre’s Spring Season brochure, which we’ve been working on for the past few weeks.
24 July ’13
Michael’s in Canterbury for the second day in a row. This time here’s there to talk to John Baker about their season brochure and membership magazine.
23 July ’13
Michael’s in Canterbury, running a workshop with The Marlowe Theatre team. There were some pretty intense discussions, fuelled by biscuits and sweets.
5 July ’13
Mike casts a critical eye over our design for the new brochure for The Marlowe Studio.
24 June ’13
Ross has been planning a summer of cultural events, aided by our new Marlowe Theatre brochure.
13 June ’13
Alan Bennett dropped in on us today, courtesy of the new cover of Spotlight magazine. Who knew he had such brawny hands?
18 April ’13
We’ve picked a copy of the The Marlowe Theatre’s summer season brochure which we’ve designed. Annelise is having a flick through before work begins on the autumn brochure next week.
2 April ’13
Dolly Parton made an appearance in the studio today, in the form of the front cover of our latest issue of Spotlight, The Marlowe Theatre’s membership magazine.
27 March ’13
Michael and Ocky are in Canterbury for a meeting at The Marlowe. Whilst in town, they popped by to see our branding and interpretation materials going up at Canterbury Roman Museum.
20 February ’13
Ocky’s been checking the proofs for the new Marlowe Friends Spotlight Magazine.
7 February ’13
Michael met with John and Paula, from the Marlowe, today. They were discussing ways to extend their hugely successful, award winning, brand.
11 January ’13
We’ve in Canterbury, visiting The Marlowe team and Jo at The Beaney. Here we are at the Marlowe, before sneaking into the matinée performance of Sleeping Beauty.
4 December ’12
Michael went to The Marlowe Theatre to watch their Sleeping Beauty panto, Here’s (some of) the Marlowe team, Ben Travis, Amy Smith, Sarah Munday, John Baker and Mia Power, having had post panto drinks.
9 October ’12
Ocky is poised and ready to go through amends with John Baker for the Marlowe Theatre brochure.
30 August ’12
John, Ben and Helene from the Marlowe have popped down to the studio for a catch-up, this time however, the panto van stayed in Canterbury.
21 August ’12
We’ve received our file copies for the latest edition of The Marlowe Friends membership magazine, Spotlight. This edition’s cover star is Gareth Gates, who is in panto at the Marlowe later in the year.
9 May ’12
Ocky and Michael are at the Southbank, meeting with John Baker from The Marlowe Theatre. Here’s John and Ocky ‘relaxing’ on deckchairs in front of the BFI.
1 May ’12
An unexpected surprise. We’d kind of forgotten that Ben Travis and Helene Skoge, from The Marlowe, were coming in. Luckily Ocky was well prepared.
10 April ’12
Our studio has been dominated by the design of the latest season brochure for The Marlowe Theatre, now it’s filled with printer’s proofs.
19 January ’12
Michael and Ocky spent the day in Canterbury with The Marlowe team - Ben Travis, John Baker and Helene Skoge.
6 December ’11
Michael’s been to the panto in Canterbury: press night at Cinderella. The Marlowe’s Ben and Helene kept him company.
4 October ’11
The Royal Gala opening of The Marlowe Theatre. Michael, Ocky, The Duke and Duchess of Kent and 1200 other people were there to celebrate.
26 August ’11
Delivery of the new season brochures for The Marlowe Theatre.
18 August ’11
Michael received this lovely invite to The Marlowe’s gala opening, featuring the logo we designed, many months ago.
16 August ’11
John and Mike, checking every detail of the season brochure for The Marlowe Theatre, a 56pg publication.
11 August ’11
Proofs, proofs and more proofs. John and Ocky and surrounded by sheets from The Marlowe's brochure and magazine.
1 August ’11
Longest phone call ever! John taking type corrections (from The Marlowe Theatre), over the phone, for almost 2hrs.
Soho Theatre Since 2018
Boys on the Verge of Tears at Soho Theatre
Peeling back layers of masculine vulnerability, The Cog Team visited regular haunt Soho Theatre to see a new play for our April Cog Night.
1 May ’24
Nazma spent some time with the Soho Theatre team this morning running a GA4 training session
CAttS at Soho Theatre
May's Cog Night took us to see Frankie Thompson's CAttS, Justin gives us his thoughts and sings thanks for the meowmories!
18 May ’23
Our third launch date in a row, Soho Theatre is live.
3 May ’23
Frankie Thompson's CAttS at Soho Theatre was bonkers but brilliant Cog Night.
Alfie Brown: Sensitive Man 2.0 at Soho Theatre
Our February Cog night saw us back at Soho Theatre, for an evening of introspective stand-up comedy. Nick shares his thoughts.
9 January ’23
Nick and Spencer were at the Soho Theatre offices ready to train them how to use their brand new website.
11 July ’22
Anna popped into Soho Theatre, where the bar was decorated for Pride.
7 April ’22
Anna and Michael are in the Soho Theatre bar, Peter is sketching out the floor plan for their new Walthamstow venue.
Queens of Sheba at Soho Theatre
For our Cog Night we were back at Soho Theatre, catching the award-winning and Edinburgh Fringe favourite Queens of Sheba.
21 February ’22
For this month's Cog Night we're back at the Soho Theatre to catch the Queens of Sheba
Rob Auton at Soho Theatre
For our August Cog Night, we enjoyed ‘Rob Auton: The Time Show’ at Soho Theatre. Nick gives his take on this funny and thoughtful evening.
1 September ’21
Alex has framed the print he bought at our Cog Night to see Rob Auton at Soho Theatre
Soho Social: Mae Martin
Our April Cog Night was an intimate evening with Mae Martin, via Zoom. A chance to watch their Soho Theatre stand-up show 'Us', and an opportunity for us to chat with Mae afterwards. Ed gives his thoughts.
12 November ’20
Jen has just put live a new online checkout for Soho Theatre.
Navigating London’s busiest venue, online
Soho Theatre
2 May ’19
Fleabag has dominated our day. Alex has been looking after Soho Theatre's site and the many thousands of visitors who have rushed to buy West End tickets for the show in August.
Flight of the Conchords at Soho Theatre
When stars of successful TV shows come back after 10 years it's hard not to be cynical.... Would the Flight of the Conchords be making a welcome comeback or cold hard cash-in?
25 January ’18
Becca, Jack and Michael are at Soho Theatre, meeting with Peter and James, celebrating the success of their new website.
27 October ’17
Michael and Ryan are at Soho Theatre for the day, filming clips for their new site. Their team are playing their roles – ticket buyer (Associate Director, Charlotte Bennett) and Sales & Box Office Manager (James Bush)
19 September ’17
Michael's being given a tour of the quirky backstage areas at Soho Theatre. Here are Paul and James in Jess de Wahls's hairdressing room.
22 May ’17
Admiring their work, Anna and Jack take some time out to look at the designs for a new Soho Theatre website, coming soon.
5 May ’17
Peter and James, from Soho Theatre, are here to 'discuss design' for their new website.
17 March ’17
Michael, Jack and Anna were presenting website designs to Soho Theatre this afternoon. So they relocated this week's gin round to the bar.
24 February ’17
A busy day in the studio. Website training with Contact in the meeting room, design presentation with Soho Theatre in the creative room.
8 February ’17
We're running a website workshop at Soho Theatre. Whilst the others were preoccupied, Michael jumped up on the stage to take this photo.
3 February ’17
Michael and Jack are at Spektrix, talking ticketing with our new clients Peter and James from Soho Theatre.
Richard Gadd at Soho Theatre
January's Cog Night was another outing to Soho Theatre, this time to see Richard Gadd's very personal show, Monkey See, Monkey Do. Dan manned-up to review it [with spoiler alerts].
19 January ’17
We're at Soho Theatre for our January Cog Night, that's Richard Gadd peering over our shoulders.
Wilting in Reverse at Soho Theatre
An absurd, surreal and fascinating story delivered through speech, song and dance. A brilliant performance that has you laughing one minute and crying the next.
23 August ’16
For our August Cog Night we're off to see Stuart Bowden's 'Wilting in Reverse' at Soho Theatre: "vigorous dance moves, understandable words and a fair bit of profound (probably life-changing) body movement".
Bears in Space at Soho Theatre
The best thing about Cog nights is that you get to see or do something which you wouldn’t usually choose yourself. So, when a puppet play called ‘Bears in Space’ was suggested, everyone jumped at the chance to see something a bit out of the ordinary.
13 April ’15
Taking advantage of Michael's UK Theatre membership, he and Becca have booked a booth in their 'members' bar' at Soho Theatre. Here's Becca and conductor, Peter Manning talking about the designs for Peter's website.
An Oak Tree at Soho Theatre
Tim Crouch is masterful in this two-person play where only he has previously read the script.
Up The Creek Since 2022
17 May ’23
Spencer is smashing that red button to celebrate the launch of a new site for Up the Creek.
16 March ’23
Michael (Up the Creek's brewer) loved the training session Spencer gave today.
14 November ’22
Michael and Spencer took a trip Up the Creek to see John at his comedy club.
29 April ’22
Kristina's on stage at our local comedy club – Up The Creek.
15 May ’18
It's Cog Night, we're at Up the Creek for an impressive bill of comedy in aid of the All Hands and Hearts charity.
19 June ’12
Tonight was our monthly Cog Night, and we went to Up the Creek in Greenwich, to see Stand Up For The Week - a work in progress. Josh Widdicombe seemed a little confused as to why there were more than 3 people in the audience when the football was on.
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