Oscar Wilde Archives - Ridiculusmus

About us

Ridiculusmus is a multi-award winning theatre company that has been producing seriously funny theatre since 1992.

” If you think of amazing performers who you hang onto every word they say, their performances so incredible along with the actual writing, the two guys from ridiculusmus spring to mind.” Dave the electrician

“I swear, you’ll have never seen anything quite like it” The Independent

The company’s co-artistic directors, David Woods and Jon Haynes, have established the company as a flagship UK performance group touring nationally and internationally with works passionately wrought from minimal resources that achieve the oxymoronic aim of being both serious and funny.

“One of our most refreshingly provocative theatre companies” Time Out

The company has created over 25 original theatre productions and is regularly commissioned by venues including the Barbican, National Theatre, Royal Court, Soho Theatre, BAC and Arts House, Melbourne.

“They are without doubt, two of the most innovative talents working in British theatre” British Theatre Guide.

Winners

Herald Scotland Archangel Award

Total Theatre Significant Achievement Award

Peter Brook Open Space Award

Time Out Live Award

Total Theatre Award for Best British Production

Herald Angel Award for Innovation

Green room award for Best Performance

The Team

Jon Haynes

Co Artistic and Executive Director

David Woods

Co Artistic and Executive Director

Board Members

Marcelle Davies
John Gorick
Dr. Richard Talbot

News and Dates

Alas! Poor Yorick

Tour Dates 2024

Importance of Being Earnest on demand

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Shows

Current

Alas! Poor Yorick

If the Two Ronnies were cast as the Gravediggers in Shakespeare’s Hamlet re-written by Samuel Beckett you might have something like Ridiculusmus’s “Alas! Poor Yorick”. Mixing the mundane with the magical; moments of banal idiocy are interspersed with ones of cinematic elegance to an underscore of groans, grunts and the odd Shakespearean aside. […]

In Rep

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Beautiful People

Our latest play began its life with acclaimed seasons at Artshouse Melbourne, Battersea Arts Centre, London and Summerhall, Edinburgh as part of the British Council Showcase.

So…

So… premiered at Turku fringe where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Brighton Fringe in May 2022. A two hander about a pair of brothers, one in a quarantine hotel, the other in a terraced house in Sheffield. Their mum has died, their solicitors hover; a metaphor of reconciliation and de-polarisation that started as a Brexit response, then a […]

The Importance of Being Earnest

(a 2 hander version) made by us with Jude Kelly and designed by Zoe Atkinson originally co-commissioned by The Brisbane Powerhouse and Barbican Centre. Revived at The Malthouse Melbourne Feb-March 2020. Jon and Dave play Jack and Algernon – and all the other parts.

In Development - New Shows

Support us

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Since the Battersea Art Centre fire in 2015 and the cessation of our National Portfolio Funding we have been in exiled orbit. Compounded by the cancellation of all our work due to the Corona Virus epidemic we welcome all the support we can get. If you would like to give a donation, no matter how small, it would be greatly appreciated.

If you would like to help, please email: david@ridiculusmus.com

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Many thanks for your support.

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Partnerships

We work with a huge range of partners – from Battersea Arts Centre in London to Arts House in Melbourne, universities and world-renowned Finnish psychotherapists, plus a pantheon of talented artists, technicians and creators. We are very grateful to those who have invested in our work in various ways over the years and continue to support us, including: