Welcome to MissImp!

MissImp is the Nottingham comedy scene’s improv group. We’re a monthly resident at The Glee Club and you can find us improvising wildly elsewhere too. Comedy improv is the fusion of sketch and theatre, with the script lying ignored on the floor. We’ll take you to places you’ve never been… they may only exist in the gap between your suggestion and the yawning emptiness between our ears. We’ll fill them with the weird and wonderful – characters of jabbering insanity driven by the random engines of improvisation.

Want to know more? Come to a show, or join us at a workshop or jam in Nottingham.
Check up on us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, follow the MissImp blog or listen to our improv podcast.

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MissImp in Action – Friday 25th May

May 24

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Hot Damn – Improv Heatwave!

Nobody knows what’s going to happen at this Friday’s show but we are pretty certain there will be more laughs than at any “comedy” movie you can see at the local multiplex… plus MissImp In Action is a hell of a lot easier on your pocket too.  Less than the price of a cinema ticket – and way more entertainment.

Get yourself to The Glee Club on Castle Wharf, Nottingham this Friday when doors will open at 8.00pm and close at 8.15pm. We advise grabbing a beer at the bar downstairs first – that’s open from 7pm onwards (and it does great food).

Tickets are £6 on the door or just £4.50 when you book online now (online booking discount ends at 4pm on Friday and NUS/IVC card holders only pay £3).

Taking your suggestions and turning them into bizarre, silly and hilarious scenes this month are Brendan, David, Lloydie, Marilyn, Nick and Trilly.  You can find out more about this month’s players here.

Treat yourself to some end of month comedy – and be part of the improv comedy explosion that’s happening around the UK in 2012

See you on Friday

Details and Booking Your Tickets Right Now

Book ahead for discounts (it’s worth it – £4.50 in advance online or £6 on the door).
Students always get in for £3 because you are special people.
Doors open at 8.00, close at 8.15 and the show kicks off at 8.30.
Book at at Glee.co.uk.

Expect more of this:

And maybe this:

Perhaps…

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Improv Jam: Thursday 24th May 2012

May 22

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This week’s jam: The Extra Jammy Jam

This week’s jam is run by me: Lloydie

This week’s jam is all about playing.  From 7.30 it will be names and games out of the hat.  Lots of games and open scenes, and, for the benefit of Friday’s playing team, a lot of games featured in Friday’s show.

From around 8.45pm we will have the wonderful Pete Allott taking to the keyboard and there will be improvised songs.  I realise some people don’t “do” singing so if you’d rather watch this bit, that’s fine.  Equally, if you’ve not done it before but fancy a go, you’ll have a bunch of people there willing you on.  As a result of Pete’s arrival at 8.45, we may go on for an extra 15 / 20 mins.  If you need to be somewhere you are more than welcome to duck out at 8.30.  No judgements.

Really important: we are not at TAO Nottingham for jams anymore. As with the last few weeks, we’re in the nice place at 39 Stoney St.

New place usual time:

39 Stoney St
Hockley
NG1 1LX

Thursday 17th May 7.30pm – 9.30pm
£2

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Improv Jam: Thursday 17th May 2012

May 15

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This week’s jam: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

This week’s jam is run by me: Parky

I would start by saying that this week’s jam is going to be quite workshop-py for the first hour or so.  If you prefer lots of games and quickfire open scenes, we’ll be doing that towards the end of the jam but I’ll be doing some specific exercises first.  And, as I know some people like to know in advance, there may be some side-coaching and stopping/restarting scenes to get my ideas across.  Just so you know!

The exercises will be based on two of the strongest emotions we can use in improv: hate and love.  There will be lots of murdering followed by lots of loving.  And then we may use both of these emotions in open scenes for the remainder of the jam.

Really important: we are not at TAO Nottingham for jams anymore. As with the last few weeks, we’re in the nice place at 39 Stoney St.

New place usual time:

39 Stoney St
Hockley
NG1 1LX

Thursday 17th May 7.30pm – 9.30pm
£2

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Effortless Improv

May 15

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There’s a moment every improviser loves – it’s the moment where everything that is happening on stage is effortless and, at the same time, really good.  Sometimes that feeling can happen for several scenes, and sometimes it can be absent for whole shows.  To many of us, it’s a mysterious little feeling that, if we could bottle it, would sell for a very hefty sum.  Last night, with Marshall and Nancy from Zenprov, Chicago, we came as close as some of us every have to bottling that state of effortless improv.

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Improv Slam Winners!

Improv Slam Winners!

May 15

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Coming Upstairs?

When we received an invitation from the brand spanking new, Birmingham-based Upstairs Improv to perform in their inaugural show on 26th April 2012, we were of course thrilled and in some respects relieved. Discovering another force for improv in the sunny Midlands was somewhat like meeting someone with the same slightly strange celebrity crush as you – the one you won’t dare admit to in public. “GOD yes - I’d do that, in a heartbeat. THANK YOU.”

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