Improv Nonsense at Nonsuch Studios | Saturday 4 June 2022
Improvised musical comedy special!
Improvised musical comedy special!
The chance to repeat an amazing experience presents somewhat of a quandary: Will it live up to the memories? Or was its attraction largely one-off novelty? After consulting a few people, and seeing circumstances had aligned again, I found myself headed for another five-day improv retreat with The Maydays. First,
Very often in improv we perform in studio theatre stages, with just the front of the stage open to the audience, with the performers enclosed on the other three sides. It’s not the only kind of performance space though, arena stages and theatres in the round place the audience all
This week is a very special musical drop-in led by Sam Marshall and Jack from Rhymes Against Humanity. The best improv happens when we feel vulnerable, and simultaneously have an absolute mega-ton of support from the other players working with us. Musical improv can seem like wizardry and make us
James Lovelock (Showstopper, Music Box) and his herd of improvisers bring you the biggest, most chaotic and silliest musicals ever never written. Every show sees us take a suggestion from you, the audience, and transform it into a full-length musical before your very faces! Expect made-up songs, gripping drama and
The lmproclaimers are an improvised musical duo. The audience creates the set list, and The lmproclaimers craft the suggestions into an unforgettable set of pop hits. From heartfelt ballads to punk anthems, this promises to be a gig to remember.
Rhymes Against Humanity (RAH) is MissImp’s musical improv team. This group of intrepid players make up scenes, songs, and entire musicals from scratch. Andrew Lloyd Webber may have taken months to write the score for Sunset Boulevard but these guys don’t even get a rehearsal – they take the name of
New improvised musical team to form in Nottingham! Standing on stage, belting out a show-stopping number that makes the audience goes wild is a pretty awesome thing to do – especially when you’re improvising the whole damn thing. After some thought, some research and a fair bit of trying things
This week’s jam: Improv Shufflathon This week’s jam artiste is: Parky After the joy of last Friday’s show and the marvellous weekend of musical improv joy, this week’s jam has a tuneful flavour. This week will be two hours of lovely open scenes. The difference is that they will all
This Friday is your last chance to catch MissImp In Action at The Glee Club this year – so get yourself booked in for a VERY special show. The team are primed and wound up ready to bounce on stage and create sketches based on nothing but your fabulous suggestions
This week’s jam: Musical Playtime This week’s jam is run by: Lloydie and Pete. As part of our series of playtime jams where we are consolidating all the different things we’ve learned this year, this Thursday we will be getting musical. We know several different musical “games” or structures as a
I saw some incredible improv at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, packed tightly into just three days of action. What struck me most about the performers was how hard they committed to the show and the scenes they were in, and it paid off. Of course their acting skills, communication,
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