Hoipolloi’s work celebrates the imagination, taking our audiences into fantastical worlds and blurring the line between reality and fantasy. Our work is playful, theatrical, physical and funny.
Since 2005, Hoipolloi has been producing the work of emerging Welsh artist Hugh Hughes. He has his own website www.hughhughes.me which is packed with lots of Hugh-related content for his audiences to enjoy.
Our work reaches out beyond the stage in a very real way, and engages audiences directly through a mixture of live performance and online digital content. It’s about telling joyful stories which entertain audiences, whilst playfully challenging their sense of reality.
Most importantly, we make shows which are accessible to as many people as possible.
Hoipolloi was set up in 1994 by Shôn Dale-Jones (our Artistic Director) and Stefanie Mueller (our Associate Director). We’re based in Cambridge in the UK, and have produced 17 new theatre shows, a film and a range of online content.
In September 2011, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a new adaptation of Floating by Hugh Hughes. The piece won Best Scripted Comedy Drama at the BBC Audio Drama Awards.
We have toured extensively around the UK and across the world including Australia, Singapore, Colombia, Finland, Russia, Ireland, Canada and the USA.
To discover more about us, please browse around our website or read through our blog, which acts as an informal archive of our activities since 2008.
Hoipolloi is a member of the ITC. Simon Bedford, our Executive Producer, was elected to their Board of Directors in 2010.