MORTAL FOOLS' COVID-19 STATEMENT:
Monday 23rd March
As this new week dawns, we all begin to create something of a new normal. Here at Mortal Fools, we’ve spent the last week trying to figure all this out, deal with the most pressing things to do and get creative about how we’ll be working for the foreseeable future.
Mortal Fools mission is to support people to build more positive inter-personal relationships with one another – and to do that using theatre and drama-based activities. Suddenly, we’re living in a world where we’re required to socially distance from one another, so how do we fulfil our mission in these new circumstances?
Here’s what we’re promising:
Promise 1: Even though we’ve had to cancel our group sessions – we’re going to create and share brilliant online activities for children and young people – with the support of some of our magnificent young people.
Promise 2: We will create a new digital offer to support businesses of all shapes and sizes to weather this storm – including ways to run great online meetings, being confident in leading online sessions and supporting the good mental health of your staff remotely.
Promise 3: We have around 20 associate freelance artists and facilitators who work with us – we will honour their existing contracts, paying them for cancelled sessions.
Promise 4: We will not sell our freelance associate team up the river. We will support them by sharing resources, including creating new paid work for them during this shutdown period.
Promise 5: We will rally the support of our wide Mortal Fools community during this unprecedented time – to give their time, expertise and money to help us weather this storm.
Promise 6: We will never give up.
For the foreseeable future our other work behind the scenes will continue as normally as possible. We’re dealing with the here and now as well as continuing ambitious planning for the future. In line with government advice, we’re working from home for the foreseeable future but we’d love to hear from you.
Take care and stay safe.
Kiz (Artistic Director & CEO) and the whole Mortal Fools Team
As this new week dawns, we all begin to create something of a new normal. Here at Mortal Fools, we’ve spent the last week trying to figure all this out, deal with the most pressing things to do and get creative about how we’ll be working for the foreseeable future.
Mortal Fools mission is to support people to build more positive inter-personal relationships with one another – and to do that using theatre and drama-based activities. Suddenly, we’re living in a world where we’re required to socially distance from one another, so how do we fulfil our mission in these new circumstances?
Here’s what we’re promising:
Promise 1: Even though we’ve had to cancel our group sessions – we’re going to create and share brilliant online activities for children and young people – with the support of some of our magnificent young people.
Promise 2: We will create a new digital offer to support businesses of all shapes and sizes to weather this storm – including ways to run great online meetings, being confident in leading online sessions and supporting the good mental health of your staff remotely.
Promise 3: We have around 20 associate freelance artists and facilitators who work with us – we will honour their existing contracts, paying them for cancelled sessions.
Promise 4: We will not sell our freelance associate team up the river. We will support them by sharing resources, including creating new paid work for them during this shutdown period.
Promise 5: We will rally the support of our wide Mortal Fools community during this unprecedented time – to give their time, expertise and money to help us weather this storm.
Promise 6: We will never give up.
For the foreseeable future our other work behind the scenes will continue as normally as possible. We’re dealing with the here and now as well as continuing ambitious planning for the future. In line with government advice, we’re working from home for the foreseeable future but we’d love to hear from you.
Take care and stay safe.
Kiz (Artistic Director & CEO) and the whole Mortal Fools Team
RELENTLESS touring production:
Wednesday 18th March
Following further advice from the Government this week, Mortal Fools have taken the decision to cancel our participatory sessions until further notice. Our priority is the safety of our members and staff team.
Unfortunately, this means that the Relentless tour and performances will not be able to go ahead.
We recognise how disappointing this is for everybody involved – cast, company and audiences. For some of our young people, this show has been the main thing keeping them going through what is a very stressful time filled with exams, coursework, and all sorts of other pressures, so we are doing everything we can to manage this and support the mental health and morale of all involved.
This is not the end of Relentless. Our intention is to get the show onto public stages in the future, most likely some time in 2021, but we can’t make any solid plans for this until we have a bit more certainty.
Tomorrow, in what would have been our final rehearsal before our premier show Queen's Hall Arts, Hexham, we will be filming a run through of the show. This means we'll be able to share share snippets of the show online, so you can all get a taste of the hard work that's been put in.
In the meantime, for audience members who have already bought their tickets to Relentless, we are asking to please consider donating all or a portion of the price of your booking back to the venues. We recognise that this time of uncertainty affects everybody differently, but if you are in a position to help these venues remain a vital part of the community, we would be enormously grateful.
Following further advice from the Government this week, Mortal Fools have taken the decision to cancel our participatory sessions until further notice. Our priority is the safety of our members and staff team.
Unfortunately, this means that the Relentless tour and performances will not be able to go ahead.
We recognise how disappointing this is for everybody involved – cast, company and audiences. For some of our young people, this show has been the main thing keeping them going through what is a very stressful time filled with exams, coursework, and all sorts of other pressures, so we are doing everything we can to manage this and support the mental health and morale of all involved.
This is not the end of Relentless. Our intention is to get the show onto public stages in the future, most likely some time in 2021, but we can’t make any solid plans for this until we have a bit more certainty.
Tomorrow, in what would have been our final rehearsal before our premier show Queen's Hall Arts, Hexham, we will be filming a run through of the show. This means we'll be able to share share snippets of the show online, so you can all get a taste of the hard work that's been put in.
In the meantime, for audience members who have already bought their tickets to Relentless, we are asking to please consider donating all or a portion of the price of your booking back to the venues. We recognise that this time of uncertainty affects everybody differently, but if you are in a position to help these venues remain a vital part of the community, we would be enormously grateful.
