Adrienne Quartly

Adrienne trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her sound designs for Told by an Idiot include Napoleon Disrobed, Get Happy, The Ghost Train, Too Clever by Half, You Can’t Take It With You, And the Horse You Rode In On and I Am Thomas.

Other work includes Opening Skinner’s Box (Improbable), Splendour (Donmar Warehouse), Bad Jews (Theatre Royal Haymarket), A Raisin in the Sun (Sheffield Crucible), The Whipping Man, After Electra (Theatre Royal Plymouth), The Ladykillers (Watermill), Every Last Trick (Spymonkey), Sex And The Three Day Week (Liverpool Playhouse), Grand Guignol (Southwark), Untold Stories (West Yorkshire Playhouse), A Tale Of Two Cities, Body of an American (Royal and Derngate), Inside Wagner’s Head (Royal Opera House), Fräuline Julie (Barbican/Schaübuhne), Rings Of Saturn (Halle Kalk, Cologne), Thomas Hobbes (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Container (Young Vic), The Shawl (Young Vic),Stockholm (Frantic Assembly), The Roundabout Season (Paines Plough), 93.2FM (Royal Court, London), 4000 Miles (Theatre Royal Bath), The Fastest Clock In The Universe (Hampstead Theatre) and Woyzeck (St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York).

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A Conspiracy of Boredom

A collection of musings on theatre from our Artistic Director, Paul Hunter
Idiot Show Archive

your opportunity to see a different Idiot show each week
Idiots in Isolation

As we all live through these extraordinary times of constraint we have put together an exciting programme of activity that responds to our current sense of isolation and allows people to continue to engage with our work digitally.
Top 10 Films that inspire the Idiots

Film has always been a seminal influence on our work, we are fascinated by movies but we’ve never sought to imitate them. Over the past twenty seven years we have created performances that explore the ways in which film uses visual storytelling, rhythm, music, editing, and ambiguity. Here are ten movies that have left their mark on Told by an Idiot, and which we think are worth having a look at during these days of quarantine.

Idiot Show Archive

your opportunity to see a different Idiot show each week
Amalia Vitale on being an actor that doesn’t speak…much. At least not in a normal way.

Amalia Vitale shares her interest in working with linguistic restrictions, voicing Lula in the new Shaun the Sheep film Farmageddon, and the joys of playing Charlie Chaplin in 'The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel'.
Idiots in Isolation

As we all live through these extraordinary times of constraint we have put together an exciting programme of activity that responds to our current sense of isolation and allows people to continue to engage with our work digitally.
Week 3: The role of the designer

Ioana Curelea shares her thoughts and process behind designing the set for 'The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel'. Including why, at one point in the process, she considered moving to Nepal...
Week 2: The past interrupts the present, reality turns into fantasy, fantasy turns into reality

Andrea Cabrera Luna, Assistant Director for 'The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel' gives us a sneak peek into week two of rehearsals...
The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel

Touring across the UK and in Luxembourg from November 2019 - March 2020.
What we do

Told by an Idiot explores the human condition through theatre that is bigger than life. We take creative risks, we tell universal stories & we include everyone.
Week 1: Rehearsals begin!

Andrea Cabrera Luna, Assistant Director for 'The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel' gives us a sneak peek into week one of rehearsals...
Week 4: Taking risks and not tiring, even up to the final minute

'Every actor in the cast is a brilliant improvisor and they complement each other in a unique dynamism. I notice they are “yes and” actors. I watch them trying different options and taking risks throughout the day, not tiring even up to the final minute.' Welcome to week 4 of rehearsals...
Top 10 Films that inspire the Idiots

Film has always been a seminal influence on our work, we are fascinated by movies but we’ve never sought to imitate them. Over the past twenty seven years we have created performances that explore the ways in which film uses visual storytelling, rhythm, music, editing, and ambiguity. Here are ten movies that have left their mark on Told by an Idiot, and which we think are worth having a look at during these days of quarantine.