WE'RE LOOKING FOR FLYERERS!

We're taking Beautiful Evil Things, our critically acclaimed new show, to the Edinburgh Fringe this year, and we are looking for excellent people with plenty of experience to flyer for us and help us engage new audiences.

We will be performing Beautiful Evil Things at The Pleasance Queen Dome from 1 - 27 August.

Highlighted by  The Guardian as a 'surefire show' to catch at this year's festival, Beautiful Evil Things received rave reviews in its premiere tour. We are so excited to be bringing the show to the Edinburgh Fringe, and we are looking for excellent people with plenty of experience to flyer for us and help us engage new audiences.

This is a great opportunity to work for a small but vibrant theatre company on an exciting new show!

Find out more about the show

We are looking for energetic and approachable people who share our enthusiasm for theatre and will relish the challenge of telling all of Edinburgh about our new show! You will be a core part of our marketing campaign. We would ideally like you to have had experience of being at or working at the Edinburgh Fringe or a similar festival, alongside some customer service or sales experience. You must be happy talking with the general public in a polite, confident and friendly manner.

We actively encourage people whose backgrounds, lived experience and skills are underrepresented in the sector to join us and positively impact our working practice. We are particularly keen to receive applications from people who self-identify as disabled or neurodiverse, from the global majority and working class.

We are committed to creating a more diverse and representative workforce and will work with flyerers to provide any access support or working arrangements that are required

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will work for 2 hours each day (13:40 - 15:40) between Wednesday 2 and Sunday 20 August (not 7 & 14 August).

This role will be paid at a rate of £13/h, and you'll also get a Pleasance Pass to access shows at Pleasance venues for free (subject to ticket availability).

We're not able to provide accommodation or transport for this role, so you will need to arrange this yourself.

For more information and a link to the application form please visit our Opportunities page here.

If you have any questions about the role or would like this information in a different format, please email mia@ad-infinitum.org.

Beautiful Evil Things

As we come to the end of this tour of Beautiful Evil Things we want to take a moment to celebrate and thank everyone involved in this production.

Starting with the amazingly talented Deb Pugh: Deviser, Performer and Co-composer. “Her performance is variously adrenaline charged, roaring and delicate. She brings tears to your eyes and raises your heart rate” (The Guardian). Couldn’t have put it better ourselves!

On the road with Deb throughout this tour, and providing incredible Technical Stage Management and more, has been Fergus Waldron. What a dream team!

The wonderful creative team on this project has been Director and Co-creator George Mann, Associate Director Megan Vaughan-Thomas, Sound Designer and Co-composer Sam Halmarack, Lighting Designer Ali Hunter, and Set and Costume Designer Katie Sykes. We had “exhilarating sound design” (The Guardian) and “hauntingly atmospheric lighting design” (Morning Star), and it was such a pleasure to work with you all.

As one audience member said, “integrated BSL interpretation is wicked! Deborah and Kyra’s delivery was so engaging and the stories could have been yarns amongst mates down the pub!" Huge thanks to the amazing interpreter Kyra Pollitt and BSL Consultants for this show, Mary-Jayne Russell de Clifford and Lynn Stewart-Taylor.

We couldn’t have done any of this this without such excellent Production Management from Ethan Hudson, Frontseat Media. Big thank you also to Emily Darley (Stage Manager in Bristol), Lydia Morgan (SM in R&D) and Lily Ball (Assistant Workshop Facilitator).

The fabulous Camilla Adams created our awesome trailer and produced so many beautiful photos we’ve been spoiled for choice. And a big shout out to Mobius PR & Emma Berge for all their work.

A very special thank you to all the supporters of this project which was co-commissioned by Tobacco Factory Theatres with support from The Wardrobe Ensemble. Made possible through funding from Arts Council England.

The Learning & Engagement project was supported by funding from Theatre Orchard and Culture Weston; ‘Into the Arts’ administered by Quartet Community Foundation and The Nisbet Trust.

And of course, THANK YOU to all our audiences! It’s been an absolute pleasure to share these stories with you, as always. And this isn’t goodbye from Medusa, just a ‘see you later’…

NPO announcement

We're very pleased to announce that we have been successful in our bid to join the Arts Council England national portfolio for 2023-26. Through this investment we'll collaborate with exceptional artists and companies to create new, experimental productions over the next three years and tour our critically acclaimed shows to places across the country and the world. Encompassing learning, engagement and sector development, our programme of activity will work with partners locally and internationally to foreground the experiences of underserved and underrepresented artists, communities and audiences.

Thank you to our board, collaborators and partners for your ongoing support, advice and creative brilliance. We can't wait to get started.

Ad Infinitum’s Co-Artistic Directors Nir and George said:

When we founded Ad Infinitum back in 2007, arriving at this point seemed like a distant dream. We have had the generous support of an extraordinary Board of Trustees who have guided the organisation from strength to strength. After 15 years of making what has sometimes seemed like the impossible actually happen - bringing a diversity of voices and a collective of incredible people, artists and creatives together in collaboration; growing our brilliant and massively dedicated core team; working flat out; finding the funding project by project; touring the world with our theatre shows, learning and engagement work and many other events; and getting through those tough pandemic years and emerging more determined and resilient than ever - becoming an NPO is a truly pivotal moment in Ad Infinitum’s journey.

While we feel hopeful and excited about this announcement, we’re also simultaneously aware that it arrives within the context of major challenges to the wider arts community, including over a decade of damaging cuts to funding, following CV-19, and as we are all dealing with the energy and cost-of-living crisis to mention just a few - so for us it’s also a moment of heartfelt solidarity with friends and colleagues, especially those facing a very different outlook to ourselves.

Arts Council England’s NPO investment will ensure we can now look further ahead strategically with more stability. Most excitingly, we will be able to continue developing our inclusive work, and reach more people - artists, participants and audiences, here in the UK and around the world. We know there’s a great amount of potential to unlock - and we just can’t wait to get going!

Phil Gibby, Area Director, South West, Arts Council England said:

It’s great to be welcoming Ad Infinitum into the 2023-26 National Portfolio. The company is well-known for its playful, disruptive, inclusive productions, and their significant contribution to opening the doors for local artists and performers in the south west. Their shows, such as Extraordinary Wall Of Silence, have been very well received for their universal themes, and the broad audiences they attract - so we’re pleased to invest in their long-term plans, which certainly contribute to a more representative portfolio and help us achieve the vision we set out in Let’s Create.

Chair of Ad Infinitum’s Board of Trustees, Lauren Clancy said:

I couldn’t be more thrilled that Ad Infinitum will become an NPO in the 2023-26 funding period. It’s something the organisation has been working towards for a long time and it follows an extensive period of collaborative organisational development - and a lot of hard work from our dedicated team.

Ad Infinitum now begins a new chapter full of creative growth and development. As Chair, I’m looking forward to continuing to work with my fellow trustees to deliver strong governance and strategic direction against a culture of radical inclusivity.

Images

Bucket List
Photo by Alex Brenner, Design by Max Johns, Lighting Design by Peter Harrison, Sound Design by Chris Bartholomew.

Extraordinary Wall of Silence
Photo by Alex Brenner, Set & Costume Design by Anna Orton, Lighting Design by Jo Palmer, Sound Design by Sam Halmarack.

Ballad of the Burning Star
Photo by Alex Brenner, Costume Design by Serena Montesissa, Set Design by Francesco Gorni, Lighting Design by Peter Harrison, Musical Director Adam Pleeth.