Since meeting at London’s Poor School in 1992, Ridiculusmus artistic directors and performers Jon Haynes and David Woods (The Importance of Being Earnest) have jointly devised, written, and performed in all Ridiculusmus’s shows and presented a substantial body of work in the U.K. and throughout the world. Previous shows include Ideas Men, Say Nothing, Yes Yes Yes, The Third Policeman, Three Men in a Boat, Paranoid Household, How to be Funny, and The Exhibitionists. The company has performed throughout the U.K., Germany, Malta, Finland, Italy, USA, Canada, Australia, and Africa.
Founded in 1992, the much-awarded Ridiculusmus produces unconventional, innovative, and accessible theater. Work is written, created, and performed by David Woods and Jon Haynes. The company makes work that is ‘seriously funny’ and deadly serious, which has earned them a reputation as one of the most exciting theater companies working in the U.K. Their work has been called physical theater, political theater, avant-garde theater, dadaist, realist, anarchic, comedy—the company’s work is all of these things.
Ridiculusmus has won awards from Time Out, Total Theatre, Adelaide Festival, the Herald Angel, and have twice been nominated for a Melbourne Comedy Festival Barry Award. In addition, the Barbican Center won the Peter Brook Empty Space Award for a season of work with Ridiculusmus. The Importance of Being Earnest is their first production of a pre-scripted play and their first collaboration with a director and a designer.
