Big City Read 2022 takes a comic turn - Stuff and nonsense with a literary twist from York’s celebrated improv collective

This Friday York Explore is hosting an evening of comedy improv, music, and general fooling around with York-based improv collective Fool(ish) – ‘Stuff and Nonsense’!

This Friday York Explore is hosting an evening of comedy improv, music, and general fooling around with York-based improv collective Fool(ish) – ‘Stuff and Nonsense’!

Inspired by our Big City Read book, the award-winning novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Fool(ish) will create an evening of comedy based around the life of hardcore Kate Atkinson fan, Dr Fraser Mann

Ordinary objects will inspire stories and comedy and music. Fraser will bring his stuff and Fool(ish) will bring the nonsense in this unique, never to be repeated evening of Friday fun.

Stuff and Nonsense

York Explore

Friday 21 October at 7.30pm

Tickets at £5 are available from any library in York

or online https://StuffAndNonsense.eventbrite.co.uk

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.

Contact birchp@btinternet.com

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.