The Festival of Critical Comedy is over the moon to present two performances by the legendary award-winning, independent theatre team Ridiculusmus. David Woods and Jonathan Haynes have spent over 20 years making plays that get into your mind.
Alas! Poor Yorick will be performed at dusk (8pm) on Saturday
How to be Funny will be on Sunday at 3pm
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. Jon Haynes and David Woods pull out every trick in their theatrical playbook to create a fresh take on Shakespeare’s much-loved clowns, re-enacting all the preceding acts of the original and meticulously staging the famous graveyard scene in all its 420 year-old glory.
“Existential Clowning”
The Guardian
“A meticulous distilled absurdist homage to Shakespeare”
Leipziger Volkszeitung
“As an articulation of the chaotic nature of life & the sheer exhilaration of which theatre is capable, Ridiculusmus would be hard to better”
The Irish Times
In How to be Funny Dr David Woods and Dr Jonathan Haynes will be joined by Dr James Daley for a performance lecture on the entire comic theory canon with practical demonstrations.
This is one Masterclass you won’t want to miss!
Following the success of the first-ever Festival of Critical Comedy in 2023, the gaggle at the Not-for-Profit Awkward Giraffe has set out once again to put our preconceptions under the magnifying lens of humour.
Festival bookings (Sat 16/11 and Sun 17/11):
Full price (1 day): $50
Conc price (1 day): $25
Season (2 days) full price: $70
Season (2 days) conc: $35
Free for under 18
Bookings:
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1280358
Limited tickets available at the door
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