A Fool’s Company

15/06/2025

Our Fools George Shead and Charlie Underhill are working with Ratbags Theatre to bring back 'How To Art', for a short fundraising season before this silly clown show goes to Melbourne in October 🍌🍌

Winner of the 'Melbourne Tour Ready Award' at NZ Fringe, this fruity fable promises a night of meticulously organised chaos, non stop laughs and a clowning commentary on the contemporary art world.

See you there 🐀🍌

🎟️Tickets are on sale with early bird discounts
⏱️17-19 July 8pm
🎭Basement Theatre

14/06/2025

Check out our Fools Grace, Charlie and Aaron, who are working on their upcoming production 'Saint Joan' with

Peasant - Soldier - Saint

Flyleaf Theatre Company is proud to present Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw, coming to this June!

Featuring an incredible cast led by Bronwyn Ensor as Joan of Arc, you don't want to miss the chance to experience Shaw’s powerful masterpiece live on stage!

🎟 Tickets from 🎟
📍 Q Theatre Loft
📆 25 June - 5 July 2025

Design by Giulia Romano
Photography by
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14/11/2024

Two of our Fools (.llewellyn and ) have been collaborating with our friends on this Fruity show!

Georgie has been co-directing/devising alongside the hilarious and they are performing as a clown trio with the wonderful , and Charlie has been producing this clown-fruit-mashup of a show. They have had two full audiences so far this week and have three nights to go - tickets are Choose What You Pay.

Supported by the incredible talents of .haugh as composer, .knit as costume designer, as production and set design and
as object designer, the show will be a feast for the eyes while you cry with laughter.

6:30pm at Basement Theatre every night, closing Saturday 16th.

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11/09/2024

Two of our Fools Cameron and Shead performing their show about recycling over the weekend at Pou Theatre as part of their Kōanga Festival!

Photos by Ralph Brown

02/09/2024

Check out some of our Fools performing a kids show all about recycling this Saturday at the awesome Te Pou Theatre!

This Saturday we will be performing our show 'Rae Cycling and the Binfluenza; Operation Green' at Te Pou Theatre at 12:15-12:45pm. We are performing as one of the many awesome things you can see during their Whānau Day, which is part of their wonderful Kōanga Festival. It'll be a fun free day for the whole family with heaps of theatre to watch and activities to participate in!

22/07/2024

Melissa Cameron and George Shead featuring in a video showcasing the work they are doing with EcoMatters Environment Trust and Auckland Council Waste Solutions Department for the Rukenga Kai Food Scraps Service Rollout

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Auckland Council rolled out the rukenga kai / food scraps service across the city in stages during 2023. This was achieved through the help of many community...

18/07/2024

A Fool's Company Community Branch is now live on facebook and instagram (afoolscommunity). Give them a follow to see the work the Fools have been doing in collaboration with EcoMatters Environment Trust and Auckland Council's Waste Solutions Department. We will be performing our latest educational kid's theatre show, 'Rae Cycling and the Binfluenza; Operation Green' for a one off public showing in September, so watch this space for more info :)

27/06/2024

Last week A Fool's Company Community Branch had the joy of visiting the entire Auckland Council Waste Solutions Department for their Mid-Year Away Day to provide some lunchtime bin-tertainment. We performed a shortened version of our show, 'Freddie's Food Scraps Quest' with some extra jokes for the council, and even got Parul, Terry and Rebecca up onstage to help with some characters; wigs, choreography and all!

It was so lovely getting to spend time chatting to the wider team about the shows we have been taking into primary schools over the past year, and to be in a room full of people working towards keeping Tāmaki Makaurau green and clean 💚

We were so grateful for the support and feedback our wonderful colleague Rebecca passed on as she spoke about the importance of using art as a vehicle for education, as well as the reception and giggles we received from the whole team. 🌳♻️🌏

05/06/2024

And for anyone out there who is missing getting salty with us..while we have put our beastie baby of a show 'The Wedding' into hibernation (for now👹😉), these clowns have been cooking up the next Latnovian tale for you all. We have already done two story development blocks and are starting our first devising intensive in July for our new show, 'The £ #@&!!' (????). We are so excited to have all the Fools causing chaos in one room together again (with Emily zooming in while completing an arts residency in the UK!).

Keep your ears tuned for the sound of the Latnovian Bells when they usher in a whole new ceremony... Get your salt shakers oiled and ready..🧂🧂🧂

05/06/2024

Over the last fortnight, we hard launched the start of our second kids show tour, 'Rae Cycling and the Binfluenza: Operation Green'. Another very silly show for primary schools in Tāmaki Makaurau, this time to help teach our tamariki (and teachers!) what should and should not go into our recycling bins.

A Fool's Company Community Branch happy to be working on another wonderful project with our lovely friends at EcoMatters and Auckland Council's Waste Solutions Department.

This time there are more wigs, even more acro battles and so many more silly jokes.

We also learnt that it is in fact possible to entirely construct costumes, props, and set as well as conducting rehearsals and full runs all from the lounge. Thanks to Georgie's flatmates for letting us cause havoc amongst the laundry.

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