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 DOTCOMEDY / Image: GetLost / Photographer: Roger Bamber

DOTCOMEDY

Comedy|Physical/visual theatre|Installation-based performance

SIZE OF COMPANY
Get lost 11 performers 4 crew, installation 2/4 performers. Solo 1 performer,walabout 1/4 performers ,The Chain 3/4 performers and crew.

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic director
Richard Stamp
Artistic director
William Wilding

ARTISTIC POLICY
dotComedy are renowned for their unique take on reality – creating installations, walkabouts, and shows that mix the mundane and the absurd with hilarious results. True mavericks of the street scene, dotComedy will mark your event with an unforgettable comedic edge that will be remembered long after they’ve gone.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Alice in Wonderland crossed with a Greek Myth – extraordinary.
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve –where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages.A company who do just that [apparently effortlessly] is dotcomedy.
Lyn Gardener,The Guardian

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Have you ever found yourself inside a labyrinth or lost yourself in a maze? Well, now’s your chance to do both inside GetLostdotComedy’s 20-foot square hedge maze filled with installations, soundscapes, a cast of the uncanny and a somewhat unpredictable minotaur.
The MISinformation Tent
Lost? Any Questions? The MISInformation Tent will supply (wrong) answers to all of life's questions. Comes complete with misleading maps, impossible diagrams and ridiculous public service announcements. Staffed by the most helpful but ill-informed local volunteers available.
The CarBoot Sale
Frighteningly authentic. The passing public at first think they’ve hit upon a real stall, but on closer examination start to notice that all is not what it seems. What is for certain is that whatever you buy you will treasure forever - or at least until you sell it at a car boot sale.  

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
The Dig
Archeology for troglodytes!
The dotComedy time team descend on a site of your choice, uncovering fascinating relics from the past, and formulating crackpot theories as to how they got there.
The Peter and Jane Family
Full of nostalgic charm,the Family look as if they have stepped from between the pages of a Ladybird book,embracing life’s simple pleasures in a larger than life format!
A spectacle from dot Comedy Why !!!
11 person walkabout
Follow the gaggle of  white coated boffins in their determined rsearch for  the ansawers of lfe.
Witness the live experiment, The Chain - a chain of events triggering a domino effect - leading to a loop of disasters which self-perpetuate one another ad infinitum. A random chain of slapstick blunders that develops into a physical conceit of chronological disaster – with hilarious results.
A community/student productioned including 3-4 dotComedy performers

WRAP-AROUND
DotComedy production The Chain is a community based show. We work with 8-30 people, either with no experience in theatre, or students.The process can be from a week to 6 weeks with performances as the conclusion of the workshops.
The production as been used several times as the opening and closing peformance of a Festival.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007
France Marseilles,St Andre:The Chain
2008 Australia, Adelaide, Womadlide:The Chain
2008 France,Sotteville ,Viva Cite: The Chain
2008 Scotland ,Glasgow, Merchant City Festival: The Chain

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All available 2009 onwards