Ring in the New Year with the Fools

It’s time to celebrate another year of improvised laughter with Fools Play this Saturday, and what better way to ring in the New Year than with more belly laughs than you can drop a giant glittering ball on? Will invited guest Jake the Pink Fool be there to help kick off 2010? Find out!

Fools Play Cast 2009

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us this last year. Come on back, have some fun and celebrate another year of Foolishness.

The Jade Fool at Fools Play this Weekend!

It's confirmed! Taisha McFall the Jade Fool will be performing at Fools Play Santa's Lap this Saturday December 19. This puts her on guest list with the Yellow Fool and the ultra rare Pink Fool! Can the Maroon Fool be far behind in confirming his attendance too?

Our yearly yulefest will be one of our biggest this year with the three pictured Fools and the stalwart Oranges Purples Blues and Gingers of the world. Be there for your chance to embark on an epic journey of holiday joy.

The Biggest Christmas of All is THIS WEEKEND

Bust out the cookies and milk and then for the merriest Format of them all: Fools Play Santa’s Lap. Our yearly Christmas bash is THIS WEEKEND, SATURDAY the 19th! It's bound to be huge cuz we’ve got some extra special Fools wrapped up and waiting to be unboxed. Who among these will be there?


Geoff Gibbs the Yellow Fool, Josh Hird the Maroon Fool, and Jake Ynzuna the Pink Fool? You'll have to attend to find out!

See you there.

HARK HARD

The Holidays are a special time. Get cozy, warm up with some nice hot Mud Bay coffee and take part in the good cheer of Fools Play’s unique Holiday shows. This season we’re performing several perennials, and a brand new one, and of course we’ll be indulging in our massive star-studded yearly performance of Fools Play Santa’s Lap on December 19. We’ve got a present for you in the form of intangible Holiday-themed improv comedy every Saturday in December so come yule off with us.


Oh, and if you hate the Holidays and all the crass decorations and oppressive nutcrackers then you’re bound to enjoy our comical harking out. You can have it both ways at Fools Play.

GIVE THANKS

It’s time to give thanks the traditional way – by watching Fools being foolish.

This weekend marks our seventh annual performance of the Fools Play Thanksgiving Special. Find out how the pilgrims brought improv to the New World in a heretical improvised telling of the first Thanksgiving. It’s like eating a comedy yam.

This will also be your chance to see how the Ginger Fool and Orange Fool interact with the Yellow Fool. Orange and Yellow haven’t performed together in six years. And Ginger? Does Geoff even know there IS a Ginger Fool? Find out this Saturday!

FRESH FACES

Fools Play is bursting with pride to announce our latest Fools.

Please welcome Jamie Pederson the Ginger Fool. Jamie earned his Fooldom after a brief but memorable apprenticeship and has already clocked several shows. Come see him strut his stuff.

But there’s more! In a move that shocked the industry, Nathan Geyer the Orange Fool has returned to the cast after a six year absence! We’re tickled orange to have Nathan back in the fold.


His physical comedy and musical aptitude will be on full display this Saturday when Fools Play performs Conversation Starter, a melodious extravaganza in which conversations lead to songs that lead to scenes. Nathan will be rocking out on the guitar and keyboard, so be sure to catch the show and wish him a happy return.

Find out more at foolsplay.net.

AN EXTRA HOUR TO PARTY

This Halloween is more than just the usual holiday. It’s Fools Play’s big Trick or Treat show, it’s our apprentice Jamie’s chance to become a Fool, it’s our apprentice Jamie’s birthday, AND it’s also daylight savings time!

That means you have ONE EXTRA HOUR TO CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN!Fools Play Trick or Treat. After the hilarious show concludes you’ll have loaded up on candy AND have plenty of time to go to your next With these great savings, you have no reason not to indulge and check yourself into the most madcap Halloween party around, Halloween celebration. After all, the stroke of midnight will mean it’s really only 11:00. Splurge!

All you have to do is come to Mud Bay Coffee on October 31 at 8:00. Those of you really out to have a good time will want to arrive in costume, but then again you’ll probably be in costume anyway to take full advantage of this extra long Halloween.

See you on Saturday!

Halloween Is Fool Night!

For the first time in years, Fools Play night is Halloween night! It's a perfect match. Don't miss out, attend the most madcap Halloween party every conceived.


Wear your Halloween costume to Fools Play and you might get a chance to go trick-or-treating live onstage! When it's your turn, choose a house from the neighborhood of improv and ring the doorbell. If a Fool lives at the house you chose, you'll get free candy! But if it's a monster, it'll refuse to give you anything, so the Fools will have to do improvised "tricks" (scenes) until it changes it's mind!

But there's more! Last weekend, our apprentice Jamie made a surprising comeback. Can he overcome the tampering done to his soul to become the next Fool? What shirt color will he get? Halloween happens to be Jamie's birthday, so this show will be extra exciting!

Jack-O-Angry-Beef says: "Be there!"

All Star Cast for FPRL this Saturday 17th

Everyone's favorite fake pro wrestling show is this weekend, Saturday the 17th! Look who's going to be there!Pink Fool: Check.

Maroon Fool: Check

Yellow Fool: Check.

Jade Fool: Check

Also a big check.

And check.

What a great line up of rare Fools!

Be there!

Fools Play performs FPRL, the Fools Play Rasslin' League Saturday 17th at Mud Bay Coffee at 8pm. $5.

More info: foolsplay.net and the FPRL website.

FPRL is just TWO WEEKS AWAY!

And look at the entertainment lined up for your rassling pleasure:

It's the rematch of the year! Don't miss it on October 17th at the Mud Bay Arena! Check out the video while you're at it.

http://www.foolsplay.net

You know what October means: SPOOKY FUN SHOWS STARTING THIS WEEK!

Here’s your chance to see Taisha McFall the Jade Fool, Esa Hakkarainen the Periwinkle Fool, and all your other foolish friends as we kick off the season.

This show also marks Fools Play’s one-year anniversary at Mud Bay Coffee. Celebrate with a cuppa coffee! We'll be performing Fools Play Hideous Robot. Which of the Fools has been replaced by a mechanical double? You'll win big if you can guess.

Things really heat up as the month continues with FPRL on October 17th and a huge Halloween show on the 31st. Pick your costume out now, and we'll see you at Mud Bay!

http://www.foolsplay.net

FPRL is happening on October 17th at Mud Bay Coffee

Can you withstand the impact of Octoberfist?

Will Dirty Heel retain the FPRL world championship? Does fan favorite Rabbiddogg have a shot to reclaim his belt? Will the Shooting Star's neck heal? What exactly is Weird?

The answers to all these questions and more will be answered and/or asked at the next performance of one of our most (some say the most) popular shows. Check out the FPRL website for details!

Mr. Money and the fine folks at Soft Serve Brand Ice Cream invite you to spend an evening at the Mud Bay Arena engrossed in the wall-to-wall bare knuckle action of the Fools Play Rasslin' Leauge – the only professional wrestling organization wherein a small troupe of improvisers portray a cast of 40+ characters. Characters like:


You create new rasslers to compete, you book the matches you want to see, you watch as as your champion, the Rabbiddogg, defends his belt against the competitor of your choosing.

See you October 17th!

Fools Play: See It

Have you seen Fools Play lately? No? Then you're missing out!

Off the heels of some great shows like Fools Play Slumber Party and Fools Play RPG, the Fools meet fall with a new ally: Jamie, the new Fools Play apprentice. He's such a pro, he has a head shot!
We've got lots of great stuff coming up. Take a look at some highlights:

• September 19th - Fools Play Robot Repair Shop. A team of repairmen square off against broken robots in a futuristic city, and you get to decide what the robots do and how they're malfunctioning. Geoff Gibbs the Yellow Fool will be on hand for this one, folks.
  
  
  
• September 26th - Fools Play Home Cookin'. The Landlord of an apartment building and the owner of the restaurant on the ground floor are locked into a decades-long feud with the apartment tenants and restaurant staff trapped in the middle, with hilarious results.
  
  
• October 3-31st - Halloween shows, including a special "Octoberfist" performance of the Fools Play Rassling League on October 17th, and a huge costume party performance of Fools Play Trick Or Treat on October 31st, Halloween night! Taisha McFall the Jade Fool will be at each performance in October.

Come on down and see us, won't you?

A New Fool

The rumors are true. Starting Saturday August 22, the Fools will be preparing a new castmate for the stage. Who will it be? What color will the new Fool wear? Will it be a boy or a girl? Who's the mother?

There's only one way to find out! Get your ass down to Fools Play so you can catch a glimpse of this new Fool. Be there when he/she/it debuts. And take in tons of great comedy by the existing and established Fools, too.

No Fools Play on July 4th

Because of strict fire codes, we will not be performing "Fools Play Indoor Fireworks Extravaganza" on July 4th.

We encourage you to take the day off to celebrate the revolutionary war and barbeque.

Fools Play will return with our regularly scheduled weekly show on July 11. See you then!

Fools Play - the Ultimate Summer Movie Experience

It's the season of Big Summer Movies! The reviews are in: Up and Star Trek are tremendous crowd pleasers while others like Wolverine, Terminator Salvation, Night At The Museum 2 and Land of the Lost compete to see who can score lowest on the Tomatometer. Not to be outdone, the Fools provide their own indoor cinema experience every Saturday night at 8 at Mud Bay - and Fools Play only costs $5. And like a Summer movie, Fools Play is air conditioned. And you can buy snacks. Like, really good snacks from Mud Bay Coffee.


Most amazingly of all, our unique Summer cinema experience consists of live performers improvising before your eyes! We realize this controversial move may outrage cinema purists, but in the interest of innovation we present a screen-less, film-less, 20-minutes-of-commercials-before-the-trailers-lesss version of cinema comprised entirely of live improv comedy. The reviews are in, and those who attended Fools Play recently say they were more likley to attend again than to pay to see the Summer comedy Dance Flick! Wow, thanks guys...

To keep with the theme of big Summer movies, Fools Play recently performed our Disaster Movie and Mini Series Formats. Look for more of your favorite Fools Play Formats all Summer long.

Be A Fool!

Fools Play is having auditions on May 16.

If you want to audition, just come to Mud Bay Coffee at 7:10 pm. Ask for Cassie.

All ages and levels of experience are welcome!

If you have any questions, just email us.

Fools Play performing at the Evergreen Improv Festival

Hey you cats and kittens,

Fools Play will be performing at the Evergreen Improv Festival on Sunday, May 3rd at 6:30pm at the TESC Lecture Hall on Evergreen campus. Swing on by and enjoy us!


Our old buddies Generation Friends, featuring Dana from L.A., are putting on the show, which runs from May 1st to May 3rd. It will also feature our old friends Quiet Monkey Fight, as well as many other improv troupes.

The festival is priced according to your budget:

$5 ALL-WEEKEND PASS- Get into every show, every night! Only available at the TESC Bookstore.
$2 THREE-SHOW TICKET- See all three shows in one night. Available at the first show of every night.
$1 SHOW TICKET- One whole improv show, for only a dollar!

For more info: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=61328673991&ref=mf

We'll be performing our regular Saturday night show at Mud Bay Coffee that weekend as well, so you'll have a rare chance to see Fools Play twice in a row if you so choose!

See you then.

April is A Month for Fools

1993 was when the Fools first performed live on stage in front of paying customers. Seems like just yesterday.

To celebrate, the Fools performed Fools Play Anniversary Special on April 4. This look back down memory lane garnered reappearances by the long-deceased (possibly fictitious) characters of Cow With A Mustache, Captain Subtlety, Helicopter Slim, and Frenetic Mushroom. Those in attendance also received a peek at one of our most demanding retired show formats, Fools Play Stop. That last one involves starting a scene over anytime an onlooker shouts "Stop". Look for it to come back soon as a theater game.

Yesterday saw the debut of a new Easter Format, Fools Play Egg Hunt. Those in attendance delighted at the sight of the Easter Bunny battling against Jesus, with appearances by the Tooth Fairy, Mrs. Claus, and The Green Man.

If you missed any of these fine shows this month, take heart: Fools Play performs every week, and our next show is the über-fun Fools Play Audience Party. It's a like an improv show mixed with a drinking game!

In less cheerful news, those of you keeping tabs will already know of the unfortunate resurrection of our least fortunate and most evil creation, the Improv Spawn.


The Fools are powerless to stop this hellish offspring, who eternally vows to destroy Fools Play. Last week, the Yellow Fool stumbled upon a grand idea, and the Fools finally discovered the Spawn's weakness: ANGRY BEEF!


BEEF managed to scare off the Spawn, but now is at large in the Olympia area. If you see this flying piece of meat, please keep your distant. He's as dangerous as he is enraged.

You have been warned.

THIS SATURDAY MARCH 28 - WELCOME TO THE DREAM HOTEL

This scrappy 1940s hotel has everything you need for a good night’s sleep – including the dream you’ll be having the night of your stay!


You'll be met at the front desk by the courteous and professional Ms. Stapelton. Call ahead to arrange the dream you'd like to have during your stay.

Prior to bed, follow your nose to where chef Deluca oversees a gourmet kitchen filled with exquisite cuisine.

Wainright, our eager bellhop, will personally deliver your specially requested dream directly to your room. Sleep tight!

Dream Hotel is a fast talking improvised screwball comedy wherein the crack night crew of Stapleton, Deluca and Wainright must try to run the hotel smoothly despite the challenges left to them by the incompetent day crew. Along the way you’ll see plenty of dreams, which take the form of improvised scenes.

Join Fools Play for our fifth performance of this annual favorite on Saturday March 28.

New Fools Play Newsletter!

Fools Play has just released the latest episode of their hilarious animated newsletter, Issue #25! In this newsletter, Ghost and Tiki must fight the awesome might of the Internet.

Click Here to Watch The Latest Episode

If you didn't know that Fools Play has a newsletter, you're in for a treat; this isn't any regular newsletter. NOPE! It's an animated adventure starring the characters from Fools Play Island!

Fools Play has been putting out an animated newsletter since 2005, so be sure to check out the Newsletter Back Issues to enjoy all of the varied hilarity!

FPRL Results Are In

Last week's FPRL was a blast. Making its debut at Mud Bay Coffee, the Fools performed for fans and newcomers alike. By all accounts, everyone had a good time, cheering and booing the characters.

But who won? Who lost? What happened?

Check out the FPRL website for show results.

This time there were 5 performers playing 34 main characters. Here's a collage of the rasslers and staff who made an appearance:





To find out who these bastards are, be sure to browse around the FPRL website.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see the show!

Fools Play Rasslin' League is happening February 28th 2009!

It’s that time of year again. Time for pain. Time for honor. Time for utter insanity. It’s time for a Christmassacre – in February!

Yes, it’s time for FPRL!

And what better time to check out the FPRL website?

Mr. Money and the fine folks at Soft Serve Brand Ice Cream invite you to spend an evening at the Mud Bay Arena engrossed in the wall-to-wall bare knuckle action of the Fools Play Rassling Leauge – the only professional wrestling organization wherein a small cast of improvisers portray a cast of 40+ characters. Characters like:


You create new rasslers to compete, you book the matches you want to see, you watch as as your champion, the Rabbiddogg, defends his belt against the competitor of your choosing.

See you on February 28!


Watch the Video!

Come See Deity High School on January 24th

On January 24 Fools Play performs one of its rarest and most choice shows, Deity High School. Find out how the gods must graduate high school before they can come to Earth and attract worshippers. You come up with three student gods who will be taught by existing deities such as Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead and woodshop instructor, principal Zeus, janitor Thor, and school councilor the Holy Ghost. Will the students balance their studies with their personal problems to graduate, or flunk out and go the way of the golden calf? Find out this weekend!

Fools Play at Mud Bay Coffee is really cookin’, and still at the insanely low price of $5 per show, only $4 if you purchase any item from Mud Bay. And now you can see Fools Play for free with the Fools Play Show Card. Come on by and see how.