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The beginning

Ramshacklicious was co-founded in the summer of 2006 by siblings Jack Splats and Holly Stoppit. They both had a hunger to create theatre for the street that took risks, featuring fully fleshed-out characters, complex narrative arcs and an edge of anarchy, interesting street theatre that respects the intelligence of it's audience.

With their long history of performing together in their dad's circus (Arts Play Umbrella) and in various music, circus and theatre projects, it seemed to be the most logical step to form a company that would showcase all of their shared skills and help them develop new ones.

So we gathered together an amazing team of theatre artists and made 'The Road To Nowhere', a show about family, love and death. This show toured the UK and Ireland for 2 fantastic summers.

...The next bit

In 2009 Ramshacklicious disappeared into a room together with even more incredible theatre artists to develop our skills and ideas of how to incorporate more puppetry, music, new writing and interactive set design into our shows. This R&D planted the seeds of ‘The Small Time’ - a vaudeville show on a tricycle. This show was created in 2010 and toured for three summers.

In 2011, alongside touring ‘The Small Time’, Ramshacklicious began to lay down the foundations for their first mid scale production 'Grime'. In 2012, the company was getting busier, creating and touring another new show, 'FinkSoup'. This was to be their first foray into non-verbal storytelling and their first fully amplified show. Ramshacklicious had gone electric!

In 2012, we also continued researching and developing 'Grime', collaborating with a huge pool of talented artists, we tore apart our original ideas, found some new ones and stuck them all back together, discovering that we had the makings of an unbelievably epic show, now we just needed to find the money to make it.