We’re famous! Kinda… Check out this very nice interview with Hazel Ward in LeftLion (the Nottingham magazine of culture and cool stuff) about MissImp, our 20th Anniversary and the late night ramblings of people faced with questions:
https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2018/october/miss-imp-improv-comedy/
While you’re there, you might also wanna take a peek at this month’s LeftLion The Goose Is Loose comic, written by Nick (and beautifully inked by Ryan Orridge).
Never-seen-before… Never-to-be-seen-again! Watch in amazement as some of the finest improv teams around live life on the edge, experiment and push the boundaries of what they do with hilarious results! Witness them take to the stage with nothing but their wits and transform YOUR suggestions spontaneously into scenes and stories bound to be breath-taking and bloody hilarious.
We’ve got another extraordinary show for you this week – the debut performance of MissImp’s all-female Harold team, The Vortex, plus the guys from MonkeyHeads with something you’ll need to see to believe.
What more could you want from a Wednesday?
This week’s line-up:
The Vortex
This fantastically funny female troupe will transform one of YOUR suggestions into a whole fantastic show with no scripts, no conferring, and nothing preplanned!
The Monkey-Meisner Mashup
Duncan and Colin from MonkeyHeads will be performing the Monkey-Meisner Mashup! It’s an organic form, creating scenes that are often closer to surreal than a gag-fest, yet often get laughs too.
“It broke all the improv rules that I’ve learned over the last 6 years, but it was compelling” – Jon Trevor, Birmingham Improv Festival
And always… The Smash Night Social Club
Our in-house team is a revolving cast of longtime vets of the improv scene. This ragtag collection of comedy cowboys play fast ’n’ loose with the rules (and their metaphors), throw off the hand brake, and whisk you away to a place you never dreamed of.
The Angel Microwbrewery | 7 Stoney Street, Nottingham NG1 1LG
7.30pm – tickets on the door £5/£3 | Join the Facebook event | Find it!
If you’re a MissImp regular, don’t forget to attend this week’s drop-in on Thursday at the Malt Cross – at the end we’ve got some special stuff to talk about!
Never-seen-before… Never-to-be-seen-again! Watch in amazement as some of the finest improv teams around live life on the edge, experiment and push the boundaries of what they do with hilarious results! Witness them take to the stage with nothing but their wits and transform YOUR suggestions spontaneously into scenes and stories bound to be breath-taking and bloody hilarious.
What more could you want from a Wednesday? Well, warmth for one thing. We advise you to wrap up warm and enjoy the show.
This week’s line-up:
The Same Faces
The Same Faces are one of the midlands’ leading improvised comedy groups, based in Leicester & Northampton.
“An endless feast of brilliant improv” – A Small Mind at the Theatre”
UoN Improv Society‘s longform troupe
Fresh from gracing The Nottingham New Theatre stage, UoN Improv are bringing an abridged version of their hilarious and entirely improvised play And Another Thing!
And always… Smash Night Social Club
Our in-house team is a revolving cast of longtime vets of the improv scene. This ragtag collection of comedy cowboys play fast ’n’ loose with the rules (and their metaphors), throw off the hand brake, and whisk you away to a place you never dreamed of.
The Angel Microwbrewery | 7 Stoney Street, Nottingham NG1 1LG
7.30pm – tickets on the door £5/£3 | Join the Facebook event | Find it!
Never-seen-before… Never-to-be-seen-again! Watch in amazement as some of the finest improv teams around live life on the edge, experiment and push the boundaries of what they do with hilarious results! Witness them take to the stage with nothing but their wits and transform YOUR suggestions spontaneously into scenes and stories bound to be breath-taking and bloody hilarious.
What more could you want from a Wednesday? Well, warmth for one thing. We advise you to wrap up warm and enjoy the show.
This week’s line-up:
Mark Craig’s Me Plus One
Mark has been performing on stage since the age of eight, and in all that time has managed to slightly improve. For the past ten years, this performing has mainly been improv and so far no one has put a stop to it. Based in Edinburgh, Mark regularly teaches improv to anyone who’ll listen and is a member of To Be Continued…, The Spontaneous Players, Four Folks Ache and any other group that needs an extra body onstage.
Tonight he will be joined on stage in a one-off twoprov that reunites him with Missimp’s own Lloydie!!
The Vox Pops
Each show they have a monologist (storyteller, to you and me) who will tell us a true story from their lives which The Vox Pops will then unpack to reveal the real meaning of the story through a cavalcade of characters and a smorgasbord of scenes. The truth has never been funnier.
And always… Smash Night Social Club
Our in-house team is a revolving cast of longtime vets of the improv scene. This ragtag collection of comedy cowboys play fast ’n’ loose with the rules (and their metaphors), throw off the hand brake, and whisk you away to a place you never dreamed of.
The Angel Microwbrewery | 7 Stoney Street, Nottingham NG1 1LG
7.30pm – tickets on the door £5/£3 | Join the Facebook event | Find it!
Never-seen-before… Never-to-be-seen-again! Watch in amazement as some of the finest improv teams around live life on the edge, experiment and push the boundaries of what they do with hilarious results! Witness them take to the stage with nothing but their wits and transform YOUR suggestions spontaneously into scenes and stories bound to be breath-taking and bloody hilarious.
What more could you want from a Wednesday?
Tonight’s line-up:
Stürike Comedy
Passionate. Vocal. Creative. Funny. Sturike is a collective of filmmakers, podcasters, actors, standups, writers and above all improvisers creating and playing in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, The North of England and one day THE WORLD!
Baron Sternlook’s Improvised Musical
The Baron Sternlook herd of improvisers bring you the biggest, most chaotic and silliest musicals ever never written! Every show sees us take suggestions from you, the audience, and transform them into an improvised tour through the work of a (fictional) composer and lyricist. Expect made-up songs, gripping drama and outrageous silliness every time!
PLUS
SMASH NIGHT SOCIAL CLUB
Our in-house team is a revolving cast of the brightest and boldest of the improv scene. This ragtag collection of comedy cowboys play fast ’n’ loose with the rules (and their metaphors), throw off the hand brake, and whisk you away to a place you never dreamed of.
Spinning your suggestions into scenes and stories, characters and creatures, myths and monsters! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you may even find yourself questioning everything you ever knew… Only one thing’s for certain when these guys hit the stage: you ain’t in Kansas any more, punk!
The Angel
7 Stoney Street
Nottingham
NG1 1LG
7.30pm – tickets on the door £5/£3
Join the Facebook event
Find it!
The festival season is upon us once more, and we shall sacrifice the young to stave off winter… Or, go and see a bunch of cool comedy shows at the Nottingham Comedy Festival! It’s totally up to you. Here are the shows that MissImp are either running, or members of MissImp and the local improv community are doing. See them all! (Hint, it’s impossible.) Check out the full lineup here.
7.30pm
Ben Macpherson: The Fall of Byron Montrose, Poet, Gentleman, Lover
Venue: The Angel Microbrewery
9pm
Katie Zoe Mitchell: One Woman Labyrinth
Venue: The Angel Microbrewery
7.30pm
Katie Mitchell and Sam Lane: Psychopomp(s)
Venue: The Angel Microbrewery
7.30pm
UoN Red Herrings: One Word Story Land
Venue: The Angel Microbrewery
8.00pm
MissImp presents: Pub Poetry, Open Mic Comic Lit Karaoke
Venue: Canalhouse
A fun, free and informal night of lighthearted and downright comic spoken word and poetry in a pub. Without beer, literature is nothing. Bring your favourite amusing poems, stories or songs, whether they are yours or someone else’s. It’s a celebration of funny words to brighten a Monday.
9.00pm
Ben Macpherson: By Myself
Venue: The Angel Microbrewery
7.45pm
Nottingham Improv Comedy Experience: NICE – Nicely Does It…… (and you can join in too)
Venue: Lacehouse
8pm
Ersatz Animus
Venue: The Angel Microbrewery
7.30pm
MissImp Double Bill: Clones and the Vox Pops
Venue: The Angel Microbrewery
The Clones: witness the incredible as comics and improvisers Liam Webber & Lloydie James Lloyd make you laugh, may make you cry, one thing’s for sure: what they create that night will never be seen again…
The Vox Pops: each show takes a true story, and reveal its real meaning through a cavalcade of characters and a smorgasbord of scenes. The truth has never been funnier.
7.30pm
Gorilla Burger: Improv Comedy Carnage
Venue: Malt Cross
Your evening of live improvised comedy carnage returns! It’s theatre karaoke where you can be the star. At Gorilla Burger you can get up on stage whether you’ve played before or not. Hugely supportive and tons of fun this is a delightful way for you to experience improvised comedy.
7.30pm
Rhymes Against Humanity & Four Far Away: Improv Double Bill
Venue: The Angel Microbrewery
Four Far Away: adventure and intrigue, mystery and magic await as we spend an hour exploring an original sci-fi or fantasy landscape made up entirely on the spot.
Rhymes Against Humanity present to you a fully improvised musical! No scripts, no conferring, no pre-planning, just totally spontaneous, hilarious musical madness!
9pm
Katie Zoe Mitchell: One Woman Labyrinth
Venue: The Angel Microbrewery
Never-seen-before… Never-to-be-seen-again! Watch in amazement as some of the finest improv teams around live life on the edge, experiment and push the boundaries of what they do with hilarious results! Witness them take to the stage with nothing but their wits and transform YOUR suggestions spontaneously into scenes and stories bound to be breath-taking and bloody hilarious.
What more could you want from a Wednesday?
Tonight’s line-up:
NICE NICE BABY
Nice Nice Baby are Nottingham Improv Comedy Experience’s (NICE) new performance team consisting of Geoff, Sabrina, Paul, James, Johanna and Ben. Tonight they squeeze some short form improv games into 15 minutes with as much energy as a busy maternity ward.
FOUR FAR AWAY
‘liens! Vampires! Spaceships! Libraries! All this and more as four improvisers craft a fantastical world based on your suggestion. Adventure and intrigue, mystery and magic await as we spend an hour exploring an original sci-fi or fantasy landscape made up entirely on the spot.
PLUS
SMASH NIGHT SOCIAL CLUB
Our in-house team is a revolving cast of the brightest and boldest of the improv scene. This ragtag collection of comedy cowboys play fast ’n’ loose with the rules (and their metaphors), throw off the hand brake, and whisk you away to a place you never dreamed of.
Spinning your suggestions into scenes and stories, characters and creatures, myths and monsters! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you may even find yourself questioning everything you ever knew… Only one thing’s for certain when these guys hit the stage: you ain’t in Kansas any more, punk!
The Angel
7 Stoney Street
Nottingham
NG1 1LG
7.30pm – tickets on the door £5/£3
Join the Facebook event
Find it!
Never-seen-before… Never-to-be-seen-again! Watch in amazement as some of the finest improv teams around live life on the edge, experiment and push the boundaries of what they do with hilarious results! Witness them take to the stage with nothing but their wits and transform YOUR suggestions spontaneously into scenes and stories bound to be breath-taking and bloody hilarious.
What more could you want from a Wednesday?
Tonight’s line-up:
THE CLONES
Witness the incredible as The Clones take to the stage. With no script, no staging, and only a pair of chairs for a set, Liam and Lloydie spin a simple audience suggestion into hilarious, spontaneous entertainment. Plots and sub-plots galore, and a whole cast of characters effortlessly juggled by the two improvisers. You will laugh, you may cry… Who knows what’ll happen? They sure don’t.
THE VOX POPS
The Voxpops are a Missimp House team who turn true stories into great comedy. You’ll never guess the twists a story can take with the Vox Pops and the truth has never been funnier.
PLUS
SMASH NIGHT SOCIAL CLUB
Our in-house team is a revolving cast of the brightest and boldest of the improv scene. This ragtag collection of comedy cowboys play fast ’n’ loose with the rules (and their metaphors), throw off the hand brake, and whisk you away to a place you never dreamed of.
Spinning your suggestions into scenes and stories, characters and creatures, myths and monsters! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you may even find yourself questioning everything you ever knew… Only one thing’s for certain when these guys hit the stage: you ain’t in Kansas any more, punk!
The Angel
7 Stoney Street
Nottingham
NG1 1LG
7.30pm – tickets on the door £5/£3
Join the Facebook event
Find it!
Last month’s madness:
Never-seen-before… Never-to-be-seen-again! Watch in amazement as some of the finest improv teams around live life on the edge, experiment and push the boundaries of what they do with hilarious results! Witness them take to the stage with nothing but their wits and transform YOUR suggestions spontaneously into scenes and stories bound to be breath-taking and bloody hilarious.
What more could you want from a Wednesday?
This week’s line-up:
The Sacrificial Chickens
An improv troupe sanctified by Dionysus, god of wine, theatre, and madness. We’ll play three games, and after each game, you, the audience, decide who will be the next sacrifice!
Rhymes Against Humanity
What if you could choose the title of a brand new musical and then see it performed instantly? That’s what is going to happen to one audience member when the East Midlands’ favourite musical improv team takes to the stage. When you arrive you will be asked to write down the title of a musical that’s never been seen before; if yours is drawn out of the hat, Rhymes Against Humanity will perform a brand new, fully improvised musical immediately – no scripts, no conferring, no pre-planning, just totally spontaneous musical madness!
And always… Smash Night Social Club
Our in-house team is a revolving cast of longtime vets of the improv scene. This ragtag collection of comedy cowboys play fast ’n’ loose with the rules (and their metaphors), throw off the hand brake, and whisk you away to a place you never dreamed of.
The Angel
7 Stoney Street
Nottingham
NG1 1LG
7.30pm – tickets on the door £5/£3
Join the Facebook event
Find it!
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