Hilary welcomes Theatre Practitioner, Museum Creator, Producer & Writer Jolie Booth to discuss theater and creativity as a spiritual path. Jolie details her journey into theater and fooling, beginning with a near death experience as a child, and discusses the fool archetype and its role in speaking uncomfortable truths. She shares her experiences conducting question-based circle plays designed to merge the inner and outer infinities, and speaks about the power of group ceremony and the relationship between creation and destruction. She then shares her personal experience with infertility and finding healing through two very different ayahuasca ceremonies. They close by discussing the play she wrote about three women accused of witchcraft that she performs in locations around the UK where accused witches were actually tortured and executed. From cosmic orgasms and therapeutic theater to reality as a simulation, this episode is full of fascinating stories and hard-won creative insights that will inform, inspire and empower.

Jolie Booth began her creative career working at an award-winning Tudor Re-enactment called Kentwell Hall. In 2003 she established Kriya Arts, a cutting-edge arts and production company, whose aim is to make the world a more compassionate and extraordinary place. In 2008 she began working with the world-famous fool Jonathan Kay as his Director of Fooling and then trained and performed with him, living on the road touring the UK and Europe for seven years. Together they created the Nomadic Academy for Fools. From 2012 onward Jolie produced and performed in many award-winning fringe theatre shows including Backstage in Biscuit Land by Touretteshero, TESTOSTERONE for Rhum & Clay and Kit Redstone, her own one woman show HIP, and has just returned from touring her new play Sisterhood. She is the co-creator and director of a pop-up museum called the Museum of Ordinary People and in the last few years has had three novels published; The Girl Who’ll Rule the World, Never Worn and, to go with the play, Sisterhood the novel.

Connect with her on Patreon, where she supports and nurtures people’s creativity – https://www.patreon.com/JolieBooth or her website www.kriyaarts.co.uk