IRON JOHN
In the forest, at the bottom of a deep pool, Iron John, wild, covered in rust-coloured hair, head to toe, awaits… you.
Your trusty dog? Has disappeared.
Thirty other hunters? Have all disappeared.
Will you go, find what lies out there, deep in the forest?
Award-winning performer and writer Jonathan Brown takes you on a new wild, newly-discovered each performance theatrical telling of this ancient myth,
including improvised aspects, live musical score (Dave Molz), and in-the-moment plunges into archetypal worlds. 
Jonathan was awarded…
Best Male Performer Brighton Fringe 2013,
Best New Play, Brighton Fringe 2012,
Best Male Performer Nominee Fringe 2007,
Best New Play shortlisting, Fringe 2013
and other accolades too.
“Thank you for your show. I loved it… brilliant piece of story telling. It was great to be part of something intimate …. engaging, moving, challenging, compassionate and funny.——pretty much anything I have seen in the theatre over the last couple of years. Afterwards, I felt that I had been taken on a journey and come back knowing something new – which is just what theatre should be like.”
Andrew Miller, co-director, Wishworks Puppet Theatre Company.
“The beacons are lit… the cry has gone out. The mother’s legs are as wide and high as mountains. Here comes the child who will repel the invaders…… And that’s not even the most surreal moment in this show. Award-winning… performer Jonathan Brown returns…. with an hour of comic mysticism – a trippy ramble through…. birth, death and politicians that escalate and topple into each other. Clutching a stick with a fox’s head carved into it, ….part jester, part cabbie….. he’s an off-kilter wild-man, ….. (with) nature-filled musings…… like elemental myths you might hear when huddled around a fire…..hypnotically unpredictable………. just peering over the dizzying edge of Brown’s sad, funny, mad world is……. a rush.” The Stage, 2015.
“We are very lucky to have an actor like Jonathan Brown on our doorstep” Britt Forsberg 2015
“I was blown away by this performance. Sharp, emotive, human and fresh. A herald to all fools fooling. Sacred theatre for the modern age.” Laura Gwynn. Lewes. 2017
“So enjoyed last night…fantastic to see the craft of the Fool” Kirsty Hurd Thomas, Totnes 2017 
“Very alive and skilful crafting of a few disparate threads, with a little of the sublime and plenty of the ridiculous. Scatological humour blended with heart character tones. We’re all reborn for Easter. I would welcome more, such a tonic. V. Daring and you pulled it off virtually seamless.” Vimmi Vatish, Ashburton 2017
“If you ever get a chance to see this guy GO! Fantastic improvised one man show – very intimate, inventive and honest performance.” Ranmal Burkmar, Brighton, 2015
“Really enjoyed the show! You are a brave man, improvisation for 1½ hours and it was excellent. I look forward to more.” Lisa Schneidau, Ashburton 2017
“We loved it! Thanks for a brilliant evening. Funny, touching, and bloody clever. What a skill!” Lianne Campbell, Lewes, 2017
“Just Great.” Hanna
“Thank you for the fire!” Deep Voice
“Well done – something GOOD was definitely happening!” Norina 
“Excellent, Thank you.” Fyffe
“Brave, Provocative. Emotional. Hilarious. Fantastic. Everyone should watch this.” Hannah
“I loved it. Choootspah!” Lucas.
Outstanding….
“masterly…such integrity….Brown’s extraordinary fluency & quick-change of voices, body language entertains first & foremost, …. mesmerising… why (isn’t) this virtuoso writer, director & performer already a national icon? There’s no greater writer/performer working in Brighton, or Sussex.” Fringe Review. May 2022
Also
The Lindworm
It’s your turn to be married, surely. But there’s a (surprise) older brother in the way. A hungry older brother, with scales, a lot of teeth, and a demand to be first wed. “No bride for you until a bride for me!” Well… in that time and tat land, eldest must always marry first.
With brides vanishing every night in the bridal chamber, who will come forward, to take the hand of this unwanted creature and bid him “take off his seventh skin”?
Award-winning performer and writer Jonathan Brown takes you on another wild, newly-discovered each performance theatrical telling of this ancient myth, including improvised aspects, and in-the-moment plunges into archetypal worlds.
“Thank you for your show. I loved it… brilliant piece of story telling. It was great to be part of something intimate …. engaging, moving, challenging, compassionate and funny.——pretty much anything I have seen in the theatre over the last couple of years. Afterwards, I felt that I had been taken on a journey and come back knowing something new – which is just what theatre should be like.”
Andrew Miller, co-director, Wishworks Puppet Theatre Company.
