Current shows
Total Football
As sports world bigwigs prepare to descend on East London for next year’s games and Westminster policy wonks try to figure out how best to exploit the national fervour, just a little way across town, Ridiculusmus is presenting its very own take on it all.
Picking over football systems, political wrangling and changing room banter Ridiculusmus try and solve the big questions of life – immortality, happiness and why England always lose.
After several years of embedded research in the football darklands, a failed attempt to create a UK football team for the 2012 games and pathetic efforts at understanding the off-side rule, Ridiculusmus has patched up its metatarsals to examine the melting pot of what it means to be British today.
Total Football has been co-commissioned by the Barbican, London (where it premiered in May 2011), in association with Belfast Festival at Queens, National Theatre Wales & National Theatre of Scotland
‘..this wry look at British identity through the lens of football is bang on target: droll, daft and deft.’
Financial Times
‘..if you only spend 70 mins in a theatre before 18 June, be sure to spend them here.’
Whatsonstage.com
‘ One of our most refreshingly provocative theatre companies.’
Time Out.
A Conversation About Comedy
A dialogue between Dr Jonathan Haynes and Dr David Woods (Co-Artistic Directors of Ridiculusmus)
You are funny. Everyone is funny, some choose to use this gift, some haven’t the will, and others think it beneath them and choose not to. Some celebrate its use, others merely come across it. Some are completely cut off and unaware of it. All of us can develop it if we choose.
Dr Dave and Dr Jon discuss the merits and pitfalls of practising (and analysing) comedy as they attempt to articulate a pathway to funniness.
Also still in repertoire are:
How to be Funny
Originally ‘scratched’ at London International Mime Festival in 2004 and eternally a work in progress. It is something in the nature of a hoax, a parody of pretentious concept performance with glossy production values but no content. It offends the right sort of people – and is, in fact, a serious look at the mechanics of comedy and infers the amalgamated theories of humour and laughter of pretty much everyone from Freud to Carr.
The Importance of Being Earnest
(a 2 hander version) made by us with Jude Kelly and designed by Zoe Atkinson which was co-commissioned by The Brisbane Powerhouse and BITE 2005. Jon and Dave play Jack and Algernon – and all the other parts.
Dates of performances of current shows.
Reviews of past and present shows.
Education pack on our approach to The Importance of Being Earnest.
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