2015-12-31 16:32
Aside from the technical miracle of punning - and the sitcom/stand-up rhythm of a set-up, joke, set-up, joke - the best comedy, to me, comes from vulnerability. This makes us laugh because t… Read More
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2015-03-26 22:13
Catch 23 is a competitive improv night, so you might expect that a team arriving 'fresh' from a 33 hour improvathon would be at a disadvantage. Oh no: because, despite having to ask for a ti… Read More
2015-03-26 21:40
A night of solo improvising begins with Steve Roe, who promises honesty and delivers it as if you were sitting opposite him after five pints in the pub. That is to say, with a level of commi… Read More
2015-03-09 16:51
Improv is always a bit like spinning plates, but what impressed me about Criminal is how many plates are spinning at once. First, there's the character each improviser is playing; second, th… Read More
2015-03-09 16:51
Improv is always a bit like spinning plates, but what impressed me about Criminal is how many plates are spinning at once. First, there's the character each improviser is playing; second, th… Read More
2015-01-21 07:38
You could be forgiven for thinking Victoria Beckham doesn't have a sense of humour, especially after watching this toe-curlingly toady and superficial 'interview' with Vogue, in which the de… Read More
2015-01-14 18:05
An all-lady improv night, hosted by Breaking & Entering (Lauren Shearing & Maria Peters) that also featured a dazzling additional cast: Cariad Lloyd, Briony Redman, Lucy Trodd, Susan… Read More
2015-01-14 18:05
An all-lady improv night, hosted by Breaking & Entering (Lauren Shearing & Maria Peters) that also featured a dazzling additional cast: Cariad Lloyd, Briony Redman, Lucy Trodd, Susan… Read More
2015-01-08 22:12
Pitched somewhere between Inception and Ben Hur, the soundtrack that precedes Adam Riches' show seems designed to get the adrenaline pumping. Clues to coming attractions are dotted about. Mo… Read More
2015-01-02 19:16
The story: A wannabe famous outlaw (Chris Pratt) who was taken from Earth at a young age, finds himself at the head of a ragtag band of outsiders who try to save the galaxy from an… Read More
2015-01-02 18:31
Christmas is a great time for keeping busy. It can be a whirl of sensory and social distractions, almost whether you want it to be or not - and the moments I slid out of that festive mi… Read More
2014-12-07 18:02
This is pretty personal so, if you're after a review of something film or improv/comedy-related, please feel free to skip. But I had to post it somewhere, to get it out. So:I have two childr… Read More
2014-11-26 00:14
Grand Theft Impro is, as the title suggests, a punchy format, one that rolls with a lot of audience interaction and a more purely theatrical madness than you might usually associate with imp… Read More
2014-11-21 14:19
The Free Association is an improv night that takes place in a rather lovely, intimate little space (the COG ARTSpace) above a rather larger pub (the De Beauvoir Arms) that's slightly too far… Read More
2014-11-17 18:36
The second in this current run of Austentatious Presents, a non-Austen night of improv comedy run by a rotating collection of that troupe. First in Andrew Hunter Murray's selection is Do Not… Read More
2014-11-02 20:16
The story: In a post-apocalyptic time, a two-person team (Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough) keep watch over a crucial energy source on an Earth. Any action movie starring Tom Cruise has to dea… Read More
2014-11-02 20:16
The story: Based on the true tale of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man born in New York State, who is kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery.At the start, you can feel S… Read More
2014-10-07 13:13
John Kearns's show has a surface weirdness that seems designed to challenge. To start with, he paces the stage as the audience filter into the auditorium, walking up and down, fiddling with… Read More
2014-09-08 15:25
The story: The true-life rise and fall of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonard DiCaprio).Biopics are typically dramas, but the first two thirds of Martin Scorsese's picture are flat… Read More
2014-09-07 20:10
Cariad Lloyd (improviser extraordinaire) and Louise Ford (character comic extraordinaire) saunter the stage with purpose and style for their two-woman show, which has a bracing but un-threat… Read More
2014-09-07 19:05
The story: The dwarfs and their burglar (Martin Freeman) continue the quest, stopping to steal an important jewel from a big dragon played by Benedict Cumberbatch.The first Hobbit movie was… Read More
2014-09-07 18:11
The story: Millie (Helen Twelvetrees) marries young and has a child, but the union ends and she slips into a dissolute, single life. Years later, she fights to save her daughter from predato… Read More
2014-08-12 17:23
People understand noir even if they haven't seen the actual films, so Improv Noir chose good ground for their spunky ensemble riff. There's a lot of energy on the stage too, especially from… Read More
2014-07-28 14:33
More than acting, improv depends on the players being willing to display themselves on stage - and Racing Minds come across as a likeably old school, intellectual bunch who revel in picking… Read More
2014-07-16 11:57
The last in the current run of Austentatious's popular Presents evenings - a mini-monthly festival of improv, here curated by Rachel Parris - was less well-attended than usual, partly becaus… Read More
2014-07-02 15:06
The story: Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) crashes out of network news, and funds his way into a new medium - 24 hour cable news. Like the Veronica Mars Kickstarter movie, Anchorman 2 suffers fr… Read More
2014-07-01 16:54
The story: On an overpopulated and polluted Earth, a luckless criminal turned factory worker (Matt Damon) tries to escape to a space station where the elite live in luxury and good health.Li… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Improv is so much more than I thought it was. Having liked Cariad Lloyd’s (@ladycariad) comedy since watching her iPlayer pilot (here – she’s got an amazing skill for creat… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The story: Young boy Sherman (Max Charles) has difficulty adjusting to school, and his time-travelling, canine adoptive father (Ty Burrell) attempts to help. Things go wrong.As an adult, thi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The story: An author (Jude Law, Tom Wilkinson) visits the Grand Budapest Hotel and meets its owner, a mysterious man (F. Murray Abraham) who explains his rise to the top under the tutelage o… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The story: A rich, spoiled woman (Dorothy Mackail) makes it her business to marry an ambitious, blue collar worker (Joel McCrea), employed by her father, who refuses to take charity.The firs… Read More
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