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FOOL’S PARADISE

By Britt Plummer & Jess Clough-MacRae

"THIS IS HIGH-END CLOWNING, DELIVERED WITH PRECISION. ONE OF THE MOST CHARMING SHOWS OF THE FRINGE."

(VAN BADHAM, VAN ABOUT TOWN)

You’re cordially invited to the wedding of the year!

From award-winning artistic team Britt Plummer and Jess Clough-MacRae comes a painfully relatable and heartbreakingly hilarious autobiographical new work.

Whether you're a fan of Amelie or When Harry Met Sally - ‘you’ll be laughing, throwing confetti, and tapping your toes to this clever, fun performance' (Fringe Feed ★★★★).

Australian artist Britt Plummer's bittersweet long-distance love story’s a ‘delectable and thought provoking' (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine ★★★★), heartbreakingly hilarious show which fuses storytelling, puppetry, and clowning into a modern-day fringe rom-com.

Britt invites you to find out if true Paradise really is a Fool’s errand?

Fest Magazine Top Theatre Picks 2024

ADELAIDE FRINGE AWARD WINNER 2023

‘TOUR READY’ AWARD PRESENTED BY FRINGE WORLD

fringe world weekly AWARD WINNER 2024

‘best theatre & performance’

ADELAIDE FRINGE AWARD WINNER 2024

‘TOUR READY’ AWARD PRESENTED BY NZ FRINGE FESTIVAL WELLINGTON

The Pebble Trust International Touring Bursary Incoming Winner 2024

BRIGHTON FRINGE FESTIVAL UK

THE LIST EDINBURGH FESTIVAL AWARDS NOMINEE

BEST SHOW FROM ADELAIDE 2024

“DELECTABLE AND THOUGHT PROVOKING, FOOL’S PARADISE IS A PLUCKY CHARM OF A PIECE.”

★ ★ ★ ★

(KATIE MCCULLOCH, EDINBURGH FESTIVALS MAGAZINE)

Creative Team: Performed by Britt Plummer, directed by Jess Clough-MacRae (Attenborough and his Animals and MANBO), movement by Paul Westbrook (Highwire Entertainment’s Rouge) with costume design by Chelsea Farquhar.

Presented by: FRANK. Theatre and Richard Jordan Productions in association with The Pleasance.

Richard Jordan is an Olivier, TONY, EMMY, and Dora award-winning artistic producer based in London, England. Britt Plummer is an Australian actor, theatre-maker, and director of FRANK. Theatre.

“THIS PERFORMER IS A VIRTUOSO AT DELIVERING FOCUS, EXPRESSIVE PHYSICALITY AND NUANCED ACTING.”

(LISA LANZI, THEATRE TRAVELS)

What the Press say about Fool’s Paradise:

“A BRILLIANT CLOWN, PLUMMER’S PHYSICAL COMEDY IS IMPECCABLE IN ITS NEGOTIATION OF THAT FINE LINE BETWEEN THE COMEDIC & TRAGIC AS SHE MAKES US PRIVY TO HER JOYS, DISAPPOINTMENT AND SORROWS. THIS, AFTER ALL, IS WHAT A GREAT MODERN CLOWN DOES!”

★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2

(JOHN DOHERTY, THAT GUY IN THE FOYER 2024)

“This multi-talented performer immediately draws you in, you will be laughing, sharing sympathy, throwing confetti and tapping your toes to this clever and fun performance.

Fool’s Paradise is definitely one to watch this Fringe season.”

★ ★ ★ ★

(JOY NORTON, FRINGE FEED 2024)

“this is a glorious double bluff of a show with bags of attitude, as Plummer utilises the DIY puppetry at play to make for an exuberantly executed hour that is funny, fragile and, for Plummer, quite possibly purging.”

★ ★ ★ ★

(neil cooper, the list 2024)

“ FANS OF ROM-COMS WILL LOVE THIS FRINGE-TAKE ON CLASSIC AND FAIRYTALE LOVE STORIES, AND WILL FALL FOR BRITT’S AUTHENTICITY AND RAWNESS.”

★ ★ ★ ★

(GEORGINA SMERD, GLAM ADELAIDE 2023)

"Genuinely touching"

"Excellent physicality and elements of clowning"

★ ★ ★ ★

(Arusa qureshi, fest mag 2023)

“The ending is simply stunning. Britt masters going from giving the audience goosebumps of sadness to making their heart swell with joy."

★ ★ ★ ★

(KATIE MCCULLOCH, EDINBURGH FESTIVALS MAGAZINE)

“A SCENE THAT MAY DO FOR HAND SANITISER WHAT GHOST DID FOR POTTERY.”

★ ★ ★ ★

(JAMES MURPHY, EVENTADELAIDE 2023)

“CLOWNING BRILLIANCE”

“HER PERFORMANCE FILLS THE ROOM WITH PATHOS AND HUMOUR.”

(FARRIN FORSTER, INREVIEW 2024)

“PLUMMER ANNOUNCES HERSELF AS A STAR WITH THE LOVELY CLOWN-SHIP AND THEATRICAL LOVE STORY. FOOL’S PARADISE IS EVERYTHING YOU WANT A FESTIVAL SHOW TO BE. ABSOLUTELY NOT TO BE MISSED.”

(CHUCK MOORE REVIEWS ABOUT 2024)

“Executed brilliantly by Plummer, the audience can’t help but fall into Plummer’s paradise.”

(Marina funcasta, Corr blimey 2023)

“IMAGINATIVE, LIVELY AND TRANSPORTIVE.”

(JOSEPHINE BALFOUR-OATTS, THE SCOTSMAN 2023)

“PLAYFUL AND WISTFUL COMEDY”

“In a touching, bittersweet script, Plummer describes Otto as corduroy and herself as velvet. You will never have seen a PANDA OODIE look so poignant.”

(CHRIS WIEGAND, THE GUARDIAN UK 2023)

MEDIA

THRee minutes with britt plummer interview with sa life 2023

REVIEW ~ THE LIST 2024

REVIEW ~ FRINGE FEED 2024

Review ~ theatre travels 2023

REVIEW ~ glam adelaide 2023

REVIEW ~ EDINBURGH FESTIVALS MAGAZINE 2023

FEST MAG’S TOP PICKS: THEATRE AND PHYSICAL THEATRE ADELAIDE FRINGE 2024

THE LIST UK’S COMEDY HIGHLIGHTS FOR ADELAIDE FRINGE 2024

THE STAGE UK’S ‘BEST SHOWS OF THE ADELAIDE FRINGE 2024’

Photos 1 - 10 by Ramsay Taplin at The Yurt

Photo 11 - 14 by Paul Westbrook, Late Cut Media at Summerhall