Tickets cost a mere R80, and there are only 40 seats, so get yours booked asap.

The thing that brand new improvisers find so hard to believe is that they aren’t alone and that making stuff up is a shared experience. For a few show offs this is devastating news. Their vision is of being on stage in front of the audience and saying hilarious stuff, that they are just thinking about right there and then, and the audience laughing. For those people learning how to listen and share is a real challenge. But most brand new improvisers are suddenly filled with the sweetest relief when they really learn to believe that they will be making it up together. The weight of responsibility and fear and and self-consciousness starts to lift, and there is real give and take.

So teaching improv is really only teaching people how to trust.

Check out this video clip of a recent show, a style rollercoaster inspired by the lyrics “Hello, is it me you’re looking for?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlEbO489IJI

Thanks to Wine and Dine SA for the video!

On December 27 we perform our first experimental, free-form, long form, once a month improv show called Jam Sandwich there, Upstairs at The Alexander. It is a small stage, so it will be a few players, and we will be doing scenes, that are definitely made up. That’s pretty much all we know. Oh, and that it will be amazing. Please, don’t be sad you missed it. Tickets are flying off the Alexander Bar booking interweb place.

For those of you who want a leetle more info before you part with your hard earned R80, what it will definitely be is some of Improguise’s most experienced players doing some freshly made improv, just without the usual strict short game format of TheatreSports. I personally can’t wait. It is going to be pretty fabulous, and the theatre is gorgeous.