A very merry London Improvmas to y'all

Hold your breath, make a wish, count to three,
Come with me and you'll be in a world of ace improvisation,
Take a look and you'll see the power of imagination.
- Billy Wonka

Hey everyone,

It's that time of year when we don't do shows for a bit. Sad, isn't it? Do you miss us already? I do, and I am here, with us. It's a parabolic dome of emotion and the echoes of falling tears bounce in standing waves of sadness.

That's what you get when you ask a sound-engineer to write about feelings.

Regardless, we just thought we'd drop you a line and say We Will Be Back (Terminator, another great Christmas movie). London Improv shows start again on 10th January with our amazing all-inclusive Improv Party jam session. We did a similar thing at the end of the season last year and it was magnificent, so join us on the 10th, sign up and play. It will be monster-good.

The rest of the season is packed with some amazing acts from friends and groups old and new. Prepare yourself for regular showings of improvised Jane Austen novels, a reinvention of short-form, improvised puppetry and musicals, and - of course - our monthly improv smackdown Catch 23. Full listings will be up soon, but we're having a bit of a break. That's what you do this time of year, y'see.

Little known fact: most of the set in this clip was actually edible. Including Gene Wilder.
See you all soon, you lovely air particles,

Love and that
London Improv
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Jason Chin (iO Chicago) longform weekends in London and Brighton

Early bookings are now available for weekend longform workshops by Jason Chin, from the iO theatre in Chicago.

A student of Del Close, Jason Chin has been performing, directing, and teaching improvisation in Chicago since 1995. He was Director of the Training Center and Associate Artistic Director to the iO Theater for eight years and is the author of "Longform Improvisation & the Art of Zen". His creation, Whirled News Tonight, an improvised news satire, recently celebrated eight years of continuous performances.

He has taught and performed all over the world, from Chicago to Manila to Hawaii, and now he is coming to the UK to teach exclusively for the Maydays. This is a rare chance to get instruction from an experienced improviser coming from ground zero of modern longform.

Dates:
Brighton, February 4th/5th, 10am-5pm
London, February 11th/12th, 10am-5pm
Cost: £175 or £150 early bird if booking before Christmas (includes a free copy of Jason's Book 'Zen and the art of Longform Improvisation'
Locations TBC

For bookings and info, contact Heather Urquhart at mayday@themaydays.co.uk or 07818290562.

Prawns and Premieres: This Week at The London Improv Comedy Club

"Improv is a dish best served with sprinkles." That's what they says. Who they are no-one knows for sure but just as the Christmas elves are beyond the ice-wall waiting for the long Winter to send us into darkness, so is London Improv sitting on an ice-beach barbecuing a fine advent luncheon for you, buddy.

Tuesday 13th December

THE INFLATABLES
and DAVID SHORE & FRIENDS
Classic short-form impro from The Inflatables with loads of games and laughs and some special guests. If Who's Line Is It Anyway..? made a lasagne and filled it with air so it floated a couple of feet from the ground, you would call it The Inflatables. Also you would ask it who's feet they were and did the donor need them.

Then David Shore comes along with a super cast of lovely folk. Sara Pascoe, Briony Redman, Charlotte Gittins, Javier Jarquin and Richard Soames line-up for fun times in funville. They're all good aren't they?

Yes is the answer.

Tuesday 13th December
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5 on the door.
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


Wednesday 14th December
GRAND THEFT IMPRO
and THE PANEL SHOW
Grand Theft Impro ("At the forefront of the revival in impro" - The Guardian) give you an hour of fearlessly inventive, exciting and funny sketches, skits and songs, all made up on the spot, all inspired by audience suggestions. With a cast consisting of Dylan Emery (Showstoppers), Phil Whelans (Brass Eye) and Cariad Lloyd (Foster's Comedy award nominee) you'd be a silly so-and-so to not come along.

Grand Theft Impro.... mmm, like a hot soup on a winter's eve. With gruyere croutons. Tasty.

Then a whole new show happens as the pilot episode of The Panel Show airs on your stage-screens. Two actual real-life journalists arrive to discuss real topics along with our special guests, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel (aka. Sara Pascoe) and the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax (aka. Paul Foxcroft). It's all improvised and it's all a piece of comedy chocolate heaven. Mmm, yum yum yum.

Wednesday 14th December
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5 on the door
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


Wednesday 14th - Friday 16th & Sunday 18th December
SILLY STRING THEORY
The Silly String cast hit their second week of shows with their awesome-sauce. If you were to cross a piece of deep thought-provoking theatre with a Jason Robert Brown musical and add an Alan Bennett topping, you'd be on the right track.

It's gorgeous theatre and wonderful improvisation and London Improv recommends it like a good pie.

Plus it's at The Canal Cafe Theatre, and they serve really good pies.

Dates between 14th - 18th December
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: From £7.50 .. BOOK HERE
Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace,
London, W2 6ND.


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EVERYTHING is going on: This week at The London Improv Comedy Club

Tuesday 6th December
STAND UP FOR THE FIRST TIME
New comedians performing stand up for the first time ever, mixed with experienced comedians performing brand new material and improvising routines off the cuff.
It's the friendliest and funnest stand-up night in town, in the funnest and friendliest venue in town.

This week we feature:
Luisa Omielan (compere), Monica Heisey, David Shore, Jon Davies, Roderick Millar, Steve Roe, Jules Garnett, Joe Bains, Chris Bennion, Andy Smith, Emily Howell, Peter Edwards, Joshua Morris, Toby Behrman, Neil Sinclair, Steven Scaffardi, Wanda Keenan, Jonny Armstrong, Daniel Glover-James.

Treats!

Tuesday 6th December
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: FREE!
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


Wednesday 7th December
HAPPY PLACE: HORSE & LOUIS & MARBLES & 8BIT & KATY SCHUTTE & GUESTS & OTHERS
Christmas approaches like a train with a mission, so London Improv has an early yuletide present for you: a line-up of excitement that would rival a pudding scoffing contest on a cruise ship.

Horse & Louie ("Plenty to enjoy" - Chortle) get some of the finest musical and comedy guests around, and present them to you with love. They have an amazing eye for talent and are experts in finding the secret gems that the comedy circuit has to offer. Rest assured if they've been chosen by H&L, they are a dead cert - genius-wise.

This week their guests are:

• Loaded Laftas Finalist 2011 Tom Toal, who Stephen K Amos describes as ‘F**king Hilarious’.
• London's finest pizza-based sketch comedy Quattro Formaggio and their ‘Life affirming and buoyant’ (Three Weeks) examination of life in the suburbs.
• The ‘sheer comic gold’ (Metro) of character comedian Dave McNeill who will romp some ‘mesmerising’ (Time Out) personae-driven hilarity.

And in the second half, 8bit team up with Ryan Miller and Katy Schutte to create an unbeatable delta force of long-form improvisation. It's a really special treat, almost like Marbles has teamed up with 8bit, and then added extra Katy Schutte.

Actually it's exactly like that.

There isn't a bucket in the universe that could contain the amount of talent there'll be in the room. Try to find one. You won't be able to.

Wednesday 7th December
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th December
SILLY STRING THEORY
At last, it's here! The buzz can finally reach it's crescendo.
One of the most exciting impro projects (don't do it... "improjects"... ugh) this year. The cast have been rehearsing solidly for 2 weeks and on Thursday will debut Silly String Theory.

This ground-breaking show picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.
Belly laughs and tears, loyalty and betrayal, the banal and the fantastic.
An ever-changing theatrical feast with understated Broadway-style songs.

It's a huge project and it's going to be phenomenal. Don't miss out....

Dates between 8th - 18th December
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: From £7.50 .. BOOK HERE
Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace,
London, W2 6ND.


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Doctor Who helps us help people who help people with cancer. And their helpers.

Well the psychic dust has settled after our phenomenal Doctor Who show last week. The TARDIS has been put in storage and the myrka returned to his stable in the Cotswolds.

Thanks to the ticket pre-sales and the tremendous generosity of the audience making additional donations on the night; London Improv are delighted to announce that the princely sum of £460 will be given to Dimbleby Cancer Care who look after people with cancer and their supportive families. We would like extend a massive thank you to the audience for the extra donations and really hope you all had as much fun as we did. Also huge thanks to the cast and front-of-house folk who mucked in and made the show the amazing success it was.

If you were one of the lucky ones who got to see the show, wasn't it amazing?! For those who didn't, just to let you know - it really was fantastic. You missed out.

Some of the best improvisers in London were joined on stage by a real-life Sontaran, a martyr for the struggle against the Daleks, and one of the greatest companions The Doctor has ever had. It was nothing less than marvellous and loads of people have said they want us to do it again. So we are going to. If that's okay.

We're not sure when, but follow us on Twitter (@London_Improv) or sign up to the mailing list (who@londonimprov.co.uk) and we'll let you know as soon as we do. We guarantee an amazing cast, at least as good as the one below. And we'll be working on getting even more special guests.

Now, has anyone got Pertwee's phone number?

CAST - DOCTOR WHO'S LINE IS IT ANYWAY?
Jana Carpenter (Spontaneity Shop, BBC's Doctor Who)
Dylan Emery (Grand Theft Impro, Showstoppers)
Paul Foxcroft (Horse Aquarium, Catch 23)
Michael Legge (BBC 6 Music, London Comedy Improv)
Adam Meggido (School of Night, Showstoppers)
Briony Redman (Horse Aquarium)
David Reed (The Penny Dreadfuls, Shamblehouse)
Tom Salinsky (Spontaneity Shop, TheatreSports)
Dan Starkey (Commander Strax - BBC's Doctor Who)
and
brilliantly
Sophie Aldred (Ace - BBC's Doctor Who)

CAST - THE OOD CAST LIVE
Andrew Candish
Chris Fosten
Chris Mead
Laura Mead
and Jonathan Funkhouse Monkhouse

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Jinni Lyons, Rhiannon Vivian, Adrian Simpson, Rob Grundel, Chrus Werren, Sarah Fletcher.

Cat Idiot

We would like to apologise. We will never again let the London Improv cat mail any more mail-outs out. Stupid feline got the date wrong for tomorrow's Catch 23 show.

Tomorrow is tomorrow, and therefore it can't possibly the 23rd November - as stupid cat published. Stupid cat. Idiot.

Catch 23 is tomorrow.. cat. On the 30th November. It's going to be awesome. Here's all about it. Stupid cat.

Hold onto your value systems! Catch23 once more takes to the flight this November 30th (stupid cat idiot) for another night of fast-paced, improvised, fun-wonder!

Astonishingly, teams are almost being formed ahead of the show these days, that's what happens when the shows are regular I guess.

Defending Champions, returning for the third consecutive show (and I presume changing their team name again) are Joe Morpurgo (Austentatious) and Monica Heisey (Shakespeare For Breakfast) as The To Be Confirmeds.

Threatening their incredibly good-natured dominance are Ryan Millar (Marbles) and real, live Canadian powerhouses Steve Sim (Crumbs) (pictured) (stupid cat) and Allen Morrison (Perhaps the Vancouver Theatresports League's most Theatresportsy). They're going to improvise so hard that you may need to bring extra clothes and a partner. Team name? You're gonna have to show up to find out.

Also, the brilliant Maria Peters (8bit, Music Box) will be playing. So will at least one other person (brilliance to be determined)! HAH! Planning!

Holy hell there's a lot of Canadians in this show. Let's cap that off with our host, Canada's finest scribe, author and writer, Stephven Doctors is in "control" moving this joke-party into the future of winning.

Right, now we're off to punch the (stupid) cat in the mouth. See you tomorrow.

Wednesday 24th November
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

Impro war!: This Week at The London Improv Comedy Club

Hey all, this is London Improv's cat. Meow. London Improv is well busy, so it's asked me to write this. Meow.
As a cat, I am particularly excited about Wednesday: Monica Heisey and Joe Morpurgo have held the Catch 23 crown for about 3 months now, and with our special guest in, that might actually change. Meow. I know. Amazing.

Meow.

Tuesday 29th November
DO NOT ADJUST YOUR STAGE
and DAVID SHORE AND FRIENDS
Yo, yo, yo, wassup? We know you kids. We know you love nothing more than lazing at home in front of the telly with a can of Staropramen in your left hand and your own self-pity in the other, re-runs of 'Britain's Got Ironing Boards' rolling slowly over your life from the 42" flat-screen in the corner.

Well kick that apathetic life in the bin-bags, because you can change your ways over night and not lose all the comforts you're used to as Do Not Adjust Your Stage recreate - just for you - an entire evening's TV schedule in the first half of Tuesday's show. Soaps, reality shows, nature docs... whatever you want, you'll get. So it's okay. And you can order Staropramen at The Miller too. And self pity if you ask nicely.

One step at a time, my friend, one step at a time.

Following the TV 'ting, David Shore has assembled a cast of thrill-people and they will be performing their little socks off with some high-class fun fun. We don't know who they are yet, but rest assured David knows some pretty awesome folk so they are likely to be utterly magnifique. Bon.

Tuesday 29th November
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


Wednesday 23rd November
CATCH 23
We have a very special guest this week at the London Improv Catch 23 comedy league. Delightfully, Mr Stephen Sim from the massively respected Crumbs Improv will be appearing alongside our other competitors. Crumbs have been together since the early 1990's and are one of those groups that always gets mentioned by people who've been doing improv for a long time. In good ways. We're honoured to have him, and so are you. Like his mum was.
Catch 23 is blimmin' ace, and Stephen will be like a frothy topping on a hot chocolate laugh-mug.

Wednesday 24th November
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

SILLY STRING THEORY

Oh yeah, sure as Purple Rain is Prince's best film, Silly String Theory is the hottest ticket for Christmas Improv. It's an improvised play with songs, and it's a collaboration of some of the most innovative and brilliant people improvising around at the moment.
CAST IS: Rachel Blackman, Jason Blackwater, Jinni Lyons, Jules Munns, Katy Schutte
MUSIC BY: Phil Lunn
DIRECTOR ING: Katy Schutte
PRODUCER STUFF: Jules Munns

It's a huge project and it's going to be phenomenal. Don't miss out....
Tickets available from the Canal Cafe Website.

WHEN:
Thursday 8th December 7:30pm
Friday 9th December 7:30pm
Saturday 10th December 7:30pm
Sunday 11th December 7pm
Wednesday 14th December 7:30pm
Thursday 15th December 7:30pm
Friday 16th December 7:30pm
Sunday 18th December 7pm

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PPP 3 - What are You Doing?

It took me a while to work this out in writing because it’s a really simple and obvious idea and therefore easily overlooked. I think missing this is what caused me a lot of confusion when I started out learning improv.

Performance

This is a quote from the 1977 December issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction;

“Intelligence and creativity are not what readers want. What readers want is the result…”

This is the sentence that confirmed in my mind the idea of the performance or the product in improv. When you get up and switch on your mental engine of creativity what is the output that you are creating? In terms of shows it is very easy to see the different kinds of performance.

For example I saw a scene from Music Box a while ago which was set in a Jacuzzi and some of the cast created the whole thing through physicality. That was really fun to see, another image that sticks in my mind is Showstopper where the cast created a beating heart on stage.

This is completely different from the style that the Milk Monitors use for Austentatious. They create a Jane Austen novel for their show, even to the point where their suggestion slip looks like a Penguin classics cover. They don’t use that kind of physicality at all, I’m guessing for practical reasons because you can see how they dress for their shows on their site. Also it makes stylistic sense to me, they are playing in a Wilde/Austen space where things happen in abbey gardens, drawing rooms and library annexes. Watching them feels like watching an actual play that you go to the theatre for.

Very simple difference and makes complete sense, I think you can also think about performance on the smaller scale when it comes down to single scenes and other creations. Even a monologue can have its own form. At iO we were coached to give monologues that were about personal stories to us and also finish it up with a summation of how we felt about it or what we learned on that occasion. That gave really memorable monologues that were easy to take into Harold scenes.

That is not the only way to give a monologue, but that little extra effort of listening to your own monologue and then reacting to it at the end makes a world of difference for other players who are going to use it. Especially in a Harold which is about expanding a single word and exploring all the themes that come out, practicing monologues like that is hitting the ground running. If you are doing a Harold, other shows need different things.

Seeing monologues like that was the last part of the puzzle for me when I was thinking about how to approach improv. Knowing what I want to create and supporting that kind of play is the goal for me in improv right now. Looking it is this way makes it easier for me to learn how to make different kinds of scenes, because it teaches me that I need to put myself in a different mode for different kinds of improv. Same basic engine of adding to what I am given but it’s plugged into a different machine. Doing who, what, where uses a different part from reacting emotionally and they both need their own practice time. Practice them apart and it becomes easier to slip between different modes and be more flexible as an improviser. I will happily learn a certain style of monologue because it helps create a certain show, but I certainly won’t cling to that as ‘how I do monologues’ or ‘the right way to do monologues’.

Conclusion

I try to look at things in terms of Process, Partnership and Performance. There is how I do stuff, how I do stuff with other people and what is this stuff?

This had made it easier for me to use all the conflicting ideas that float around and the different styles. There are good things to find everywhere and there are also dead forms/games/scenes that don’t support anything and are being done by rote. My goal is to find the play in it all so I can enjoy creating a variety of different performances. Cutting it up without seeing that as a cast-iron definition allows me to easily digest all these different experiences I am bombarded with as I improvise. Much like cutting up a lovely potato allows me to stick it in my gob.

Now go and eat a potato.

No, a real one.

The Cloister Bell Tolls for Improv: This Week at The London Improv Comedy Club

Tuesday 22nd November
GRAND THEFT IMPRO
with THE NEW WAVE
Level 4 students from David Shore's classes open the evening with a little bit of what they've done. This time they're trying out the Armando - improv inspired by monologues.
Their special guest monologist this week is David Armand (who you might've seen dancing on BBC's Fast and Loose). Heh! "Armand's Armando".. brilliant.
If you haven't seen an Armando, check it out. It's a lot of fun.

In the second half, Grand Theft Impro have assembled a special cast from some of Britain's most experienced improvisers. Watch them spread their wings and fly like squirrels. Flying squirrels. Featuring David Reed (Penny Dreadfuls, Fast And Loose), Dylan Emery (Grand Theft Impro, Showstoppers), Andrew Pugsley (Showstoppers) and our very own Steve Roe (Hoopla, Music Box, his Mummy's tummy).

Tuesday 22nd November
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


Wednesday 23rd November
DOCTOR WHO-WHAT-WHERE
with THE OOD CAST
---(SOLD OUT)---
It is highly likely that this is the most awesome thing that The London Improv Comedy Club has ever seen. To celebrate the anniversary of the first ever broadcast of Doctor Who in 1963, we're putting on a Who show.

In part one, we have gathered together the most exciting sci-fimprov cast ever to create an improvised episode of classic Doctor Who. Featuring cast from the BBC series', old AND new, performing alongside some of the greatest improv talent in the country. It's actually going to be so good that time speeds up.

We're not giving anything away about who's appearing, but it's going to be Ace.... and also lactating Sontarianly good.
And David Reed.

In the second half, great friends of London Improv: The Ood Cast present an on-stage performance of their cult Whovian podcast followed by thousands of fans around the world. They're pretty big in the USA, I can tell you.
The Oods will be going Reduced Shakespeare Style, re-creating the entire of the new series' of Doctor Who since Christopher Eccleston arrived in "Rose"... in 45 minutes. Live. With sketches. And songs. Geek-bliss.

Now we don't want to put a downer on the whole thing, but we are massively sold out for this show. All the tickets sold way back in October. You can try and get in, but you'll have to wait and see after all the ticket holders have entered. Sorry about that.

Amendment: We're very sorry but we will not be able to admit anyone who does not already have a pre-bought ticket. It simply isn't legal. But we do plan to do another one of these one day, so keep your eyes peeled.

All proceeds will be going to help people with cancer and their families; in memory of Who-actor Elizabeth Sladen, so feel free to drop by and just give us some money anyway. It's all for good.

Wednesday 23rd November
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5.. turn up at the door, but expect not to get in. Sorry!
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


Sunday 27th November & Sunday 4th December
THE 7TH ANNUAL MAKE-A-WISH THEATRESPORTS CUP
Teams of comedy improvisers will play out a series of sketches and games – all completely made-up on the spot. Cheer! as your favoured team triumph. Boo! as they are humiliated by their opponents. Hand over money! as they battle to the death to win the precious Theatresports Trophy, and all for a good cause.

In 2003, London's top comedy improvisation companies came together to perform a very special series of shows to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a charity which grants the wishes of terminally ill children. Three hysterical comedy shows later and the Make-A-Wish Foundation was £3,000 better off! We just had to do it all again!

Sunday 27th November & Sunday 4th December
Time: Doors 7pm.
Cost: £6.50
Where: Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street, London NW8.

SPECIAL MENTION
Check out THIS CAST. Awesome.

This ground-breaking show picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together. Belly laughs and tears, loyalty and betrayal, the banal and the fantastic. An ever-changing theatrical feast with understated Broadway-style songs.

It's pretty much The Canal Cafe's Christmas show this year, and it's going to be phenomenal. Get your tickets quickly, from hither: www.sillystringtheory.co.uk

WHEN:

Thursday 8th December 7:30pm

Friday 9th December 7:30pm

Saturday 10th December 7:30pm

Sunday 11th December 7pm

Wednesday 14th December 7:30pm

Thursday 15th December 7:30pm

Friday 16th December 7:30pm

Sunday 18th December 7pm

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Cabaret and Laugh-Fighting: This Week at The London Improv Comedy Club

Tuesday 15th November
THE MUSIC BOX CABARET
Dan Attfield, that lovely funny bloke with the guitar, who's in Do Not Adjust Your Stage and Music Box, and also sings amazingly funny solo comedy songs - well he's also in a musical comedy band called The Rasputins! And they're gonna open the evening at The Music Box Cabaret, that's awesome.

And then, the Fat Kitten gang are going to take us back in time with their Victorian Themed impro show Party Like It's 1899. That's one intense half of comedy folks!

Then after the interval Music Box are taking the stage with their next improvised musical. Since Edinburgh we've had musicals set in a Giant Toy Factory, the Gentleman's Toilet in Mordor, and a carnival in Margate. Where's the next one going to be? Will we see more New York gangster Badgers, divorced Rabbits, bog goblins or fairytale princesses? Come along and find out.

Tuesday 8th November
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

Sunday 27th November & Sunday 4th December
THE 7TH ANNUAL MAKE-A-WISH THEATRESPORTS CUP
Team of comedy improvisers will play out a series of sketches and games – all completely made-up on the spot. Cheer! as your favoured team triumph. Boo! as they are humiliated by their opponents. Hand over money! as they battle to the death to win the precious Theatresports Trophy, and all for a good cause.

In 2003, London's top comedy improvisation companies came together to perform a very special series of shows to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a charity which grants the wishes of terminally ill children. Three hysterical comedy shows later and the Make-A-Wish Foundation was £3,000 better off! We just had to do it all again!

Sunday 27th November & Sunday 4th December
Time: Doors 7pm.
Cost: £6.50
Where: Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street, London NW8.

SPECIAL MENTION
Check out THIS CAST. Awesome.

This ground-breaking show picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together. Belly laughs and tears, loyalty and betrayal, the banal and the fantastic. An ever-changing theatrical feast with understated Broadway-style songs.

It's pretty much The Canal Cafe's Christmas show this year, and it's going to be phenomenal. Get your tickets quickly, from hither: www.sillystringtheory.co.uk

WHEN:

Thursday 8th December 7:30pm

Friday 9th December 7:30pm

Saturday 10th December 7:30pm

Sunday 11th December 7pm

Wednesday 14th December 7:30pm

Thursday 15th December 7:30pm

Friday 16th December 7:30pm

Sunday 18th December 7pm

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Game Shows and Mega Cabaret at The London Improv Comedy Club

Tuesday 8th November
THE FAUX PAS
and
FINGERS ON BUZZARDS
There's been a murder! An ACTUAL murder. Oh holy Mongolia, that's bad news. Death in a theatre is so bad for backstage morale; all the dancers cry and I'm not allowed to 'console' them anymore.
But do not fear, The Faux Pas are here: experts in the art of improvised crime-solving. Let Detective Super-Intendant Rosy Fordham guide you and her team of CSImprovisers through the who-what-&-wherefores of the murder. Hopefully by the time we go for a break, the meany-murder-chap will be bought to justice. And spanked.

Then the questioning carries on as we all prepare to put our Fingers On Buzzards... the only improvised pub-quiz/game show/comedy show mash-up in existence. Except for the one on Canada. But that was made by the same people so it's okay.
The audience are blessed/blighted with their own mascot improviser in a fight to be crowned "The Most Knowledgeable About Weird Stuff". It's a title we all hope for. Admit it."A bit of a find"
- Chortle
Tuesday 8th November
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

Wednesday 9th November
MARBLES and HORSE & LOUIS present...
HAPPY PLACE
Marbles are teaming up with comedy-sketch act disguised as a musical comedy duo, with a penchant for silliness and a flair for dicking about - Horse & Louis ("Hugely Enjoyable" - Time Out) for an eclectic evening of comedy, music and improv.
Featuring:
Canadian Comedy Awards nominee and musical comedienne: Mae Martin
★★★★ “She knows how make an audience laugh… Full of the confidence of a veteran comedian" - Scotsgay

BBC New Comedy Award Finalist and winner of the Comedy Store King Gong: Tez Ilyas
"Handsome and hilarious, see him now before Channel 4 gives him a series" - Scott Capurro

Regulars on the London sketch and cabaret circuit: The Expeditionary Force with a combination of high concepts and low morals
"Clever, witty, well-observed and engaging" - The Good Review

and - of course - longform two-prov improvisers Ryan and Dave. Marbles themselves presenting what they do best. Which is telling stories and engaging with the audience. And philosophising about odd stuff. Marbles.

Wednesday 9nd November
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

HEADS UP!
The Canal Cafe this year has an improvised musical pretty much as their main Christmas Show. These are all the details you need to know (unless you want to be in it, then click HERE):



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