It all started when…

In 2018, Britt Plummer returned to Australia from France where she had been studying theatre over two years with “Master of Clown” Philippe Gaulier. It was an environment where artists from all over the world created work in a melting pot of diversity and cultures. She had a vision of starting a company that would develop and present original work; exploring the human condition with honesty, humour, and heart; where conversations emerge out of the realms of joy and play with the audience. She wanted to nurture the development of young and emerging artists by providing training in specialist skills in devising new work and physical storytelling, and giving work opportunities for performers, collaborators and workshop facilitators.

FRANK. celebrates spontaneity, complicité and individuality. We believe theatre-makers and performers have a beautiful power to transport our audience and allow them to dream. We want to have tricky conversations in comfortable spaces, where we can laugh, breathe and have a sense of togetherness.

we present our own work and produce work that aligns with our values, please get in touch if you are interested in collaborating.

we work between australia and the united kingdom fostering connections between artists internationally.

We acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region and the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Boon wurrung peoples of the kulin nation on whose lands we live and work in australia. We respect their spiritual relationship with their country.

We pay our respects to all Elders past, present and emerging and we acknowledge that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living aboriginal people today. 

Director Bio

Brittany Plummer is a performing artist, teacher, theatre-maker, and director of FRANK. Theatre. Britt trained as an actor at the Adelaide College of the Arts and spent two years training with ‘Master of Clown’ Philippe Gaulier at École Philippe Gaulier, in France. She has also trained with British physical comedy troupe Spymonkey, Italian clown practitioner Giovanni Fussetti, UK performance artist and clown Lucy Hopkins and with autobiographical theatre-maker Bryony Kimmings.

Specialising in Bouffon, Clown, and Vaudevillian styles, Britt is driven by theatre rooted in the realms of pleasure, play, and connection with the audience. And is passionate about telling stories, exploring the human condition and exposing societal issues through an intersectional feminist lens.

Britt has worked with Vitalstatistix, APHIDS (VIC), Punctum (VIC), Flabbergast Theatre (UK), Stan’s Cafe (UK), Terrapin Puppet Theatre (TAS), Adelaide Festival Centre, Becoming Fallow, Slingsby, Foul Play, ActNow, Monski Mouse Productions, Five.Point.One, Early Worx, and State Theatre Company of SA as a performer, and Adelaide Festival Centre, SAYArts, and NIDA Open as a teacher and facilitator. Britt is a regular teacher of Le Jeu, Neutral Masque, Mask Play, Bouffon and Clown to acting students at the Adelaide College of the Arts.

Britt premiered Chameleon, her first solo work, in the 2019 Adelaide Fringe Festival at MakeSpace and received the Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award for Emerging Artist. In March, and May 2019, she performed with Punctum in the immersive durational work Punctum’s Public Cooling House at WOMADelaide, and Bunji Place as part of Climate + Art = Change Festival, in Melbourne. Later in May 2019, she worked with Stan’s Cafe (UK) on the installation work Of All The People In All The World, as part of DreamBIG Children’s Theatre Festival.

In June 2019, she joined the London cast of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit, Flabbergast Theatre’s The Swell Mob presented by Adelaide Festival Centre at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

In August 2019, Britt toured Chameleon to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and in January 2020 to FRINGE WORLD Perth.

In March 2020, she performed in APHIDS’ Howl as part of Art Gallery of SA’s Monster Theatres’ Program, presented by APHIDS, Vitalstatistix, RCC and Art Gallery of SA.

In Covid-19 lockdown, Britt began devising and rehearsing The Baroque with Swedish performer Oliver Nilsson, and developing a new show Fool’s Paradise.

In August 2020, Britt worked with Dan Thorpe and Forest Collective on You Are Jeff, as part of the Vitalstatistix Adhocracy Program. In September 2020, she presented the final version of her work Chameleon with a chorus of women as part of the RUMPUS 2020 Season.

FRANK. Theatre was the recipient of the The Mill Centre Stage Residency in 2020, Britt Plummer and Oliver Nilsson as part of the residency had the second stage development of the work The Baroque and then toured the show to FRINGE WORLD Festival Perth, and Adelaide Fringe 2021. Britt Plummer was awarded the Adelaide Fringe Emerging Producer Award -presented by MILKE for the Adelaide Fringe season.

In June 2021, Britt performed in L’Hôtel, an immersive cabaret experience of French intrigue presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre as part of Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

In late 2021 and early 2022, Britt co-directed Shakespeare South Australia’s production of Twelfth Night, with Jessica Clough-McRae at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Palm House and Carrick Hill.

FRANK. Theatre co-produced four works as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2022 with the support of Adelaide Fringe and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet Arts South Australia. These shows were ‘Nella’ by Julia Mayer, ‘Hard To Reach Places’ by Anna Lumb, ‘A Not So Trivial Pursuit’ by Hew Parham, and ‘MANBO’ by Sam Dugmore (Edinburgh Fringe Award 2022).

Britt travelled to Europe May until September 2022 to participate in workshops with Lucy Hopkins and Bryony Kimmings (UK), and work with Amy Gwilliam on early stage development of new work Fool’s Paradise.

In October 2022, FRANK. collaborated with Fallow (Amber Cronin & Tom Borgas) on the development and execution of Tea House for the Nature Festival at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

Fool’s Paradise premiered as a work-in-progress at the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2023 at Adelaide’s newest hub The Courtyard of Curiosities at The Migration Museum which was also programmed by Britt Plummer. Fool’s Paradise won the Adelaide Fringe Tour Ready Award presented by FRINGE WORLD and has gone on to tour to Villa Neukölln in Berlin, Latitude Festival UK and Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the curated programme at Summerhall. In 2024, the production toured to FRINGE WORLD, winning a weekly Best Theatre & Performance Award, with a final season in Adelaide Fringe and winning the Adelaide Fringe Tour Ready Award presented by NZ Fringe Festival Wellington. Fool’s Paradise is touring to Brighton Fringe Festival UK thanks to The Pebble Trust International Touring Bursary Award, as well as Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing at Pleasance. This tour is co-produced by Richard Jordan Productions in association with Pleasance.

In 2023, FRANK. was commissioned to create duo act The Explorers at DreamBIG Festival.

Actor representation by RMT Management.

Testemonials

“Meet the Chameleon, Britt Plummer. If you don’t know who this is yet, then pay attention because this is definitely this reviewer’s personal favourite for outstanding performer of FRINGEWORLD 2020 so far. Plummer and her work are in a class all their own!”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (Fourth Wall Media 2020)

“This is a show that lingers in the audience’s mind.”

★ ★ ★ ★ (Gutter Culture on Chameleon 2020)

"Plummer is a serious purveyor of social change intent on achieving her goal with perfected physical comedy"

★ ★ ★ ★ (Fest Magazine on Chameleon 2019)

“In this charming, quirky performance, you can’t help but feel a part of something. Yes. Yes. Yes.”

(FRINGE FEED on Chameleon 2020)

“Co-directors of Twelfth Night Britt Plummer and Jess Clough-Macrae have produced an exceptional and elemental production where text, physicality and energy are key to the story and subsequently, the audience’s appreciation and perception of the whole.”

(theatre travels on twelth night 2022)

Collaborating Artists (to date)

Hew Parham (Director/Dramaturg), Ben Brooker (Writer/Dramaturg), Jules Mayer (Actor/Workshop Facilitator), Erin Perrey (Actor/Workshop Facilitator), Tim Mackie (Actor/Workshop Facilitator), Felicity Boyd (Dancer/Actor/Collaborator), Taylor Nobes (Actor/Collaborator), Bronwyn Palmer (Actor/Collaborator), Zola Allen (Actor/Outside Eye), Poppy Mee (Outside Eye), Dan Thorpe (Contemporary Classical Composer/Performer), Oliver Nilsson (Actor/Writer), Jonathan Tilley (Outside Eye), Sam Dugmore (Outside Eye), Jessica Clough-McRae (Co-Devisor/Director), Alys Daroy (Producer Shakespeare SA), Anna Lumb (Hoop Artist, Actor) Paul Westbrook (Actor, Director and Collaborator), Chelsea Farquhar (Costume Designer and Performance artist mentee), Amber Cronin (Collaborator), Tom Borgas (Collaborator), Ashton Malcolm (Performer/ Tea House Attendant), Sam MacMahon (Performer/ Tea House Attendant), Jazmine Deng (Performer/ Tea House Attendant), Kaiya Bartholomew (Placement - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland | Contemporary Theatre, Technician/Puppeteer Fool’s Paradise, Summerhall), Nicolas Angelosanto (Technician/Puppeteer Fool’s Paradise), Molly Dooner (Technician/Puppeteer Fool’s Paradise) and Belinda Gerard (Technician/Puppeteer Fool’s Paradise).

Our branding design is by local SA company Bigmouth Designs.

Our images have been photographed by Ramsay Taplin, Paul Westbrook, Jamie Hornsby, and Lauren Smeaton.