Genre: Improvised Theatre
Review: ShakeItUp – The Improvised Shakespeare Show
High class, high octane improv from masters of their craft
Review: ECHO
Ultimately, the most telling line ”We are all immigrants across time” defines what remains an extraordinary experience
Review: Lights Up! The Improvised Musical
The sheer energy and fun that the performers are clearly having cannot help but transfer to the audience’s mood.
Review: Bingewatch
Inventive show with humor and drama, very well performed. Every show is completely different!
Review: Artificial Intelligence Improvisation
Professional improvisers beware. The robots are after your jobs.
Review: Nine Lessons and Carols
The Almeida’s another country. They do shows differently there. A bold communing of theatre stories with the fresh poignancy of what’s happened during 2020
Review: Bumper Blyton
A superior example of improvised nonsense and mayhem set at a time when things were more hidden and inuendo more obvious.
Review: Forgotten Dialogue
A beautifully realised, genre-crossing show that stands out from the crowd
Review: The Birth of Death
“A profoundly moving and disarmingly funny journey, looking at death and how we approach it…”
Review: Impromptu Shakespeare
One of the many plays that Shakespeare might have written, but didn’t. And there'll be a different one tomorrow.
Review: Showstopper: The Improvised Musical
An improvised musical with a bizarre plot that they somehow manage to pull off
Review: Bear North
Do come if you want charm, unpredictable choruses and weather. And where else can you see a dancing bear not even brushed backwards in the making of this show?
Review: Murder She Didn’t Write – The Improvised Murder Mystery
Top class improv from a top flight troupe of practitioners.
Review: Boris & Sergey: Preposterous Improvisation Experiment
Sublime puppetry and improvisation performance with lots of laughs and an underlying sensitivity
Review: Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Non-stop jokes keep the audience laughing throughout.
Review: Unreachable
A profoundly quizzical play about directorial and film-mogul silliness, using one liners and silliness to address these questions.
Review: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
In a stunning New Venture Theatre production Accidental Death of an Anarchist explodes with a cast of six. Rod Lewis directs
Review: Hip
Hip is a must see show. A Brighton-spirited séance with tequila, nibbles, tenderness and laughter.
Review: Extravaganza
An absurd yet deliciously delectable action packed hour and ten minutes of clowning, acrobatics, physical theatre and slapping
Review: Sound & Fury’s ‘Lord of the Thrones’
A reluctant hero, an assortment of creatures and characters, a quest and plenty of chaos!
Review: Here is the news from over there (Over there is the news from here)
A smorgasbord list from the Middle East sent that day and turned in to theatre that night
Review: This is Your Trial
Truthfully Improvised law in a courtroom, unlike that kiddy on stuff in a High Court
Review: Shit-faced Shakespeare
A slick show with strong performances and impressive improvised interventions
Review: The Maydays:The Last Ten Years
"skilled actors, singers, performers and superb musical backup"
Review: ‘Hitchcocked’ by Sound & Fury
A nouveau-vaudeville spoof of Alfred Hitchcock’s best-known movies.
Review: Aaaand now for Something Completely Improvised
High quality improvisation in a style of Victoriana that is nothing short of spiffing wonderful
Review: This Is Soap : the Improvised Soap Opera
Intelligent, witty character and plot development in a unique edition of ‘Galloway Towers’
Review: Buddhism: Is it just for Losers?
Surreal and entertaining gallop through aspects of religion and philosophy. Includes jokes about solipsism.
Review: Wuthering Heights
A highly impressive, witty, absorbing and intriguing take on the issue of masculinity through the eyes and lens of a classic text that is never dull and frequently inspirational.
Review: Exterminating Angel – An Improvisation
A disturbing, beautifully played and directed dark comedy
Review: White Rabbit Red Rabbit
White Rabbit Red Rabbit is brave piece of experimental writing and thoroughly deserving of your attention this fringe.
Review: The Improverts
The Bedlam Theatre is celebrating its thirtieth year at the Fringe, while the Improverts are entering their third decade. Time, then for them to get complacent, or to up their game to ever higher levels?
Review: Interrobang?
Any question you want answered, on the spot. Here’s one: should you see this show?
Review: Spontaneous Broadway
A highly enjoyable musical impro show with a strong and original format.
