Utter Nonsense is the production company for new comedy plays, written and performed by ROY HUTCHINS AND TONY HAASE.
TONY HAASE is a writer, artist and performer, originally with Brightons Cliffhanger Theatre Co. He was a Perrier Award nominee with Les & Robert and has produced award winning solo shows; Gerty Naylor and The Black Room. His TV appearances include They Came From Somewhere Else, Mornin Sarge, Colins Sandwich, Alan Partridge and The Day Today.
ROY HUTCHINS has won 2 Fringe Firsts; a Charrington One Person Show Award; a Royal Television Society Award (presenting Heathcote Williams Whale Nation) and was voted Time Out Performer of the Year. Hes been nominated twice for The Perrier (if.comedy) Award and had his own 12 part series of dramatised comic stories performed on BBC Radio 5.
Playing an array of different comic characters, Hutchins and Haase have merged elements of the comedy-musical, the sit-com and the classic double-act to create an original and accessible style of comedy theatre. The influence of commedia dellarte is clear but their shows have also been described as, Morecambe and Wise meets South Park and Samuel Beckett meets the Marx Brothers. And, by THE LATEST as:
A sort of updated Pete and Dud...They have the ability to create something which, while seemingly effortlessly ad-libbed, deposits you at the end realising that you have experienced something finely honed and structured, as well as original. Catch them while you can.
another Morecambe and Wise-esque journey into the surreal and brilliantly bonkers. You'd be hard pushed to find a better use of a Friday night. Sussex Express
Utter Nonsense currently have 7 shows in production and will be touring over the coming year.
Our next live shows are at The Coach and Horses in London (29 Greek St.) on Sunday Dec 13th at 8pm, and at The Greys in Brighton on Monday Dec 14th at 8.30pm. Ring 07966 285792 to reserve tickets.
You can view clips from our previous shows on this page.