FOOL(ish) Present Stuff & Nonsense

FOOL(ish)/York Explore/Improvisers Paul Birch, Sam Dunkley, Ned Lunn, Charles Merrit & Eve Ridgeway/Musical Improvisation Sam Dunkley/Poster Design by Mark Gowland/Photos by Gareth Buddo/2022

Improv comedy with a literary twist!

Inspired by Kate Atkinson’s Behind The Scenes At The Museum Yorkshire based improvisers, Fool(ish), will create an evening of comedy based around the life of a very special guest - Dr Fraser Mann (a hardcore Kate Atkinson fan who will be interviewing her at the Big City Read launch).

As with Atkinson’s novel, Fraser will introduce key objects from his life and share the true stories which they each evoke. These same stories will form the basis for some extraordinary improvisations in an evening of truth and comedy.

Join us for a unique evening where only the unexpected can happen and where surprising connections are made…

Fraser Mann

Dr Fraser Mann is Senior Lecturer in Literature at York St. John University, UK. He is a specialist in American writing with particular interests in conflict, testimony, and trauma. He has published research on a range of literary figures such as Ernest Hemingway, James Jones and Norman Mailer. He also works on music writing in the form of creative non-fiction and co-edited the Bloomsbury edited collection Music, Memory and Memoir(2019) and the forthcoming Equinox collection Venue Stories. His creative writing can be found on the Twistin’ My Memory, Man blogspace. His teaching interests include American Studies, autobiography and twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing.

Fool(ish)

Fool(ish) are a collection of Yorkshire performers who have been improvising for over 20 years and on a mission to ‘never perform the same show twice’. They have been trained by some of the world’s best Improv teachers at Chicago’s Second City and I.O. and are delighted to bring an American twist to UK Improv.