STOMP has now set feet stamping, fingers drumming, adrenalin rushing and feel-good sensations flooding through audiences totaling more than 15 million people in 48 countries across 5 continents. 

From a single drum hanging around Luke Cresswell’s neck back at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1991, STOMP has taken on a life of its own and become an award-winning phenomenon. Since those early days, creators and co-directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas have developed a unique, universal language of rhythm, theatre, comedy and dance.

With unstoppable energy and toe-tapping exuberance, STOMP takes the clutter and junk of everyday life – everything including the kitchen sink – and transforms it into a pulsating, witty, utterly irresistible theatrical event.

Now, after an astonishing 9 years in the West End, and 17 years on Broadway, STOMP unveils ‘STOMP ‘11 – FRESHER, FASTER, FUNNIER!’, inspired by their large-scale Las Vegas version, Stomp Out Loud.  New music and choreography join a fresh array of ordinarily mundane objects, onto which the cast work their musical magic. Huge ribbed tubes, previously used for recycling fluorescent lights, are themselves recycled into outsized Guiros, a Latin American percussion instrument, played by scraping the ridged sides with a stick.

In one of two spectacular new routines, paint cans are tossed between the performers, as they simultaneously build an astonishingly complex rhythm over every surface of the airborne cans. With the emphasis very much on ‘spectacular’, the Stompers are also joined by inflated monster truck inner tubes strapped around their waists to create both a dance of bobbing, whirling rubber skirts and pounding, portable drum kits – the ultimate redefinition of ‘surround sound’.

“STOMP brings the house down!”
Independent on Sunday, UK

Still remaining is STOMP’s signature high-octane meeting of slick choreography, tight ensemble work, industrial percussion and a narrative of anarchic clowning; as the irrepressible troupe of eight performers turn brooms into soft shoe partners, clapping into intricate conversations and water cooler bottles into sophisticated instruments.   A row of folding chairs are straddled, slid, slammed and slapped into rhythmic submission.

The whole show hurtles towards a brilliantly reworked climax – a showstopper in every sense – as a crackling carnival of leaping, spinning, skidding and pounding Stompers vent their inexhaustible energies on an unsuspecting orchestra of metal dustbins, bin lids, tubs and water butts. Joyous, thumping, exhilarating bliss for all involved…except the bins!

“Pure stage magic, you’ll be dancing in your seats”
The Sunday Telegraph, UK

The STOMP international community of performers now totals 100 over five companies, including two US and one international touring company. With an Olivier award and a performance at the Oscars ceremony already under its belt, STOMP is a truly international stage phenomenon not to be missed.

“We are really excited about coming back to Dublin,” says STOMP’s Co-Director Steve McNicholas. “It means a lot to us to be returning. If you’ve never seen STOMP you should come and see what all the noise is about, and if you’ve seen it before then this show has plenty of new routines to enthrall.”

An explosive extravaganza of percussion, theatre, comedy and dance, STOMP consistently wows audiences and critics alike with its infectious rhythms and “pure stage magic”.

“Big, noisy and irresistible”
Sun Herald, Australia