Having spent over 30 years developing and teaching his structure of Fooling, Jonathan is an adept master at this work. He will cajole, caress and crack open The Fool residing deep within all of us. He will take you gently by the hand and lead you into a discovery of your inner world.
Fooling is a form of improvised theatre. The dramatic journey is as unpredictable and unknowable for the performer as it is for the audience. Foolish theatre is explicitly non-traditional and without rational considerations, because it is driven by feelings held in the Now. The act of “Thinking” is improvisational theatre’s most immediate and persistent assassin. Go with Feeling, not with Thinking.
The Weekend Workshop allows you to ‘dip your toes into the water’ and find out what it means to Fool on a stage. It gives you the opportunity to experience this foolishness. Once tasted it draws you in to discover a huge world, which you get to play in, create in and find your Fool in.
Whilst performers, clowns, storytellers and musicians will all find inspiration for their stagecraft, this workshop offers a space for anyone to meet their inner Fool and benefit wholeheartedly from the boons to be found in those inner landscapes. Lawyers, farmers, nurses, and facilitators have all found their personal pot of gold on these workshops.
In the Five Day Workshop, Jonathan will be entering into some of seven levels of the structure of Fooling. The structure provides tools and a direct means of opening to these transformative qualities that The Fool can offer us.
This way of theatre is specific to the art of improvised performance using the Fool archetype, because you could say that only a Fool would get up out of the audience, into a space with no props, set design or script and start to perform a play.
The Five Day Workshop is a fantastic chance to experience a taste of various levels of the structure at a level the weekend and online workshops do not allow. All of the workshops depend on the participants, and how much they are willing to give.
The best thing about all the workshops is that you don’t have to have performer aspirations. This suits everyone with an interest to explore themselves and the world of the Fool within a performance space. It can be a wonderful catalyst for change, knowledge, growth and fun.
Jonathan brings a wealth of experience and insight into the human condition as well as a storehouse of tangible tools, games and exercises to entice you out of the audience of your life