Told by an Idiot are a British theatre company which specialises in devised and physical theatre. Following their 1995 Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut, the group, occasionally referred to as The Idiots continue to create comedies based on bleak source material. Throughout their career, the outfit’s core members Hayley Carmichael, Paul Hunter and John Wright collaborated with The Royal Shakespeare Company, scottish actor and director Richard Wilson, former poet laureate Carol Anne Duffy and current poet laureate Simon Armitage.