Fools Play Facilitators
Jan 27 2021
Introducing the foolish facilitators for Fools Play Online!
This 6 week course starts on 25th Feb 2021. The deadline for applications is on Monday 1st February. It is only open to people who have completed Holly Stoppit's 5-day Fools School.
Each week will be led by a different member of Hollys' fooling troupe, Beyond The Ridiculous.
Read more >The New "Normal" photos from Joe Rosser
Oct 16 2020
We did it! Live art is still possible! Our documentary photographer, Joe Rosser captured the evening to give you a taste of how it felt to be in the Wardrobe Theatre during our first ever hybrid online / real life show, The New "Normal".
Read more >The New "Normal" poem by Bee Golding
Oct 16 2020
Here's the poem written by our Poet In Residence, Bee Golding, during Saturday night's performance of The New "Normal" by Beyond The Ridiculous.
Read more >Holly talks on The Quarantini Podcast
Oct 05 2020
I was interviewed by Pommy Harmar from The Quarantini, a Bristol-based podcast, which has been broadcasting since the beginning of lockdown.
Read more >What is Fooling?
Sep 29 2020
Here's Holly Stoppit and members of Beyond The Ridiculous demonstrating what their improvisation form, 'fooling' is all about.
Read more >BTR Live Online Show, The New "Normal" 10th October
Sep 10 2020
The Wardrobe Theatre presents Beyond The Ridiculous in a live, improvised, online celebration of the human condition!
Saturday 10th October 2020
“Both incredibly funny and incredibly moving.” -The Huffington Post
Poems for the players of 'Voices of Lockdown Live and Unleashed'
Jul 30 2020
Do you remember midsummer's night, June 2020? Lockdown was beginning to ease and the fools of Beyond The Ridiculous took a moment to reflect on their journeys through the strangest spring they'd ever encountered, in their first ever online show, 'Voices of Lockdown, Live and Unleashed'.
Bee Golding, our poet in residence, took Orla's live transcription of the show and her own embodied memories from being audience, and created a collection of poems to capture the night.
Read more >Behind The Scenes At BTR Online
Jul 02 2020
On 20th June, Beyond The Ridiculous performed our first ever online Fooling (solo improvisation) performance on Zoom. We were supported by The Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol to explore how our work might translate to a digital platform. It was a massive experiment for an ensemble of solo improvisers who usually perform live on stage.This blog charts the process of developing and performing the show and includes a newly commissioned poem from poet in residence, Bee Golding.
Read more >Cyber Fooling - Guest Blog from Bee Golding
Jun 11 2020
Hello dear readers, please welcome back to the stage, guest blogger, Holly Stoppit Workshops Radministrator and Poet in Residence, Bee Golding!
I asked Bee to write about her experience of being part of the Fools Play group, earlier this year and here's what she wrote:
Read more >Beyond The Ridiculous Online Show 20th June
May 31 2020
The Wardrobe Theatre present Beyond The Ridiculous in: