An ideal antidote to lockdown, one of many UK’s main revolutionary theatre firms reinvented one in all its best-loved household reveals for the outside. It featured (socially distanced) bodily comedy, reside music, acrobatics, hip hop and viewers interplay, this quirky present was an invite to smile and comply with the directions on the tin.
Watch Devoted to Chaos, a documentary following Instructed by an Fool as we navigated the method of making theatre through the pandemic.
Efficiency dates
Get Pleased appeared as A part of Greenwich+Docklands Worldwide Pageant 2020 on the next dates
29 August, 1pm and three:30pm On Your Doorstep at Woolwich Frequent Property
30 August, 1pm and three:30pm On Your Doorstep at Thamesmead
12 September, 1pm and 4pm On Your Doorstep at Eltham
Evaluations
★★★★★ ‘Anarchically inclusive pleasure… I now consider within the transformative energy of theatre’ – SUNDAY TIMES
★★★★ ‘Instructed by an Fool strategy this new method of performing beneath rules with an unimaginable chemistry and energetic efficiency abilities’ – A YOUNGER THEATRE
‘Constantly humorous. Making use of its regular recent, playful physicality, Instructed by an Fool has give you a unusual, upbeat present for kids, which lives as much as its title’ – THE STAGE
‘Madcap little gem’ – TIMEOUT
‘Instructed by an Fool do a superb line in silliness for this variety-style present for teenagers’ – TELEGRAPH
Credit
Created by Instructed by an Fool
Performers: Sara Alexander, Stephen Harper, Jerone Marsh Reid, Sophie Mercell
Directed by Paul Hunter
Designed by Sophia Clist
Sound Design by Adrienne Quartly
Unique Lighting Design by Tom Snell
The unique manufacturing of Get Pleased was commissioned by the Barbican Centre, London
Manufacturing
Manufacturing Supervisor / Technical Stage Supervisor Simon Perkins
Deputy Stage Supervisor Carol Pestridge
PR by Nancy Poole PR (07957342850 [email protected])