On Fire: The Next Generation – Improv Comedy Show – Saturday 7 October

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Brave, Bright New Faces

We have a superb show for you – tomorrow night at the Talent 1st Organisation we’re unveiling a host of new faces and players for the improv comedy stage. Hailing from MissImp and University of Nottingham Improv Society, these are the folks we’ll be laughing at on stage for years to come. Join us at 7.30pm for an explosion of improvised scenes and games.

Backed up by some folks you’ll recognise from other shows, this is all about having a great time, mixing up classic improv games with theatrical delights, it’s going to be a fine night for everyone. Come to the show and cheer em on!

There are just a few tickets left – remember – you can only buy tickets online! Do it, do it now.

L-R
Marilyn Ann Bird, Sam Marshall, Nick Tyler, Minder Kaur Athwal, Richard Minkley, Ian Sheard, Molly McConnell, Jack Cross, Emily Brady, Joe Hadley, Nick Parkhouse, Milou Manie, Phil Carruthers

Saturday 7th October

Talent 1st Organisation
(was the Nottingham Actors Studio)
Kayes Walk
Nottingham
NG1 1PY
Doors 7.10pm
Starts 7.30pm
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Improv Jam – Thursday 26 May 2016

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This week’s jam: Games With Stories

This week’s improv jam is brought to you by: Nick

Of late we’ve been revisiting games we often only play at Gorilla Burger or Interrobang. This week we’re going to play the games that tell a story. We’ll begin with the simplest versions and get more complicated. The aim is to get a feel for a how a story is structured, and how best to help it on its way.

Thursday 26 May 2016

7.30 – 9.30pm
The Malt Cross
16 St James’s St
Nottingham
NG1 6FG
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£5 / 3 concessions

One Week Left to Register on MissImp's Level 1 Improv Comedy course!

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The next Improv Comedy Beginners course starts on Monday!

Level1This is a complete introduction to the skills and fun of improv comedy. Your teachers will be Marilyn and Ben, two of our finest improvisers, as seen each month at The Glee Club for MissImp in Action. Over the six week course we’ll teach you how to play games, inspire others and feel brilliant about what you do. This is an excellent way to get into improv, develop new skills or enhance your ability to create and enjoy yourself.
Course Details
When: 6 week course every Monday evening starting on 13 October 2014. 7-10pm each week.
Where: The Corner, 8 Stoney Street, Nottingham, NG1 1LH (opposite the Old Angel pub)
Cost: £75 for the course
More course information here.
We Want You!
choose-boldly-and-kick-assTo join up, email us at [email protected] and we’ll send you the payment instructions right back.
We’ll be restricting the total number to around 12 so please sign up and pay ASAP to guarantee yourself a place. If you have any questions at all please email us or phone (Nick) on 0786 3122 959.

One Week Left to Register on MissImp’s Level 1 Improv Comedy course!

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The next Improv Comedy Beginners course starts on Monday!

Level1This is a complete introduction to the skills and fun of improv comedy. Your teachers will be Marilyn and Ben, two of our finest improvisers, as seen each month at The Glee Club for MissImp in Action. Over the six week course we’ll teach you how to play games, inspire others and feel brilliant about what you do. This is an excellent way to get into improv, develop new skills or enhance your ability to create and enjoy yourself.

Course Details

When: 6 week course every Monday evening starting on 13 October 2014. 7-10pm each week.
Where: The Corner, 8 Stoney Street, Nottingham, NG1 1LH (opposite the Old Angel pub)
Cost: £75 for the course
More course information here.

We Want You!

choose-boldly-and-kick-assTo join up, email us at [email protected] and we’ll send you the payment instructions right back.

We’ll be restricting the total number to around 12 so please sign up and pay ASAP to guarantee yourself a place. If you have any questions at all please email us or phone (Nick) on 0786 3122 959.

Improv Jam: Thursday 16th January 2014

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This week’s jam: The Sound of Improv

This week’s improv jam is run by: James

SoundzOfMoozikA lot of sounds we hear in our improv jams are usually from our mouth words, and every so often we force ourselves to add sound effects using our mouths on and off stage to help bring our scenes to life more. This Thursday, we’re going to dive back into the world of sound effects and improv!

You will explore different ways of creating sounds such as foley, vocal foley, sound effects, musical sounds and other types to challenge our improv games.

A foley table, mic setup, and sound system will be provided on the night, and also a welcome return to The Mysterious Wheel of Sound Effect Judgement!

Four things will be required…

1. Your lovely selves
2. Your weird and crazy voices
3. Some props that make all kinds of sounds for our foley scenes.
4. A hand to help quickly set it all up

There is even further reading and some videos James linked to previously at The Sound Of Improv.

Thursday 16th January

7.30-9.30pm

The Corner
8 Stoney Street
Nottingham
NG1 1LH
Entry Price: £3

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Unspeakable Acts – Theatre on Bath Salts – Tuesday 19th November 2013

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Unspeakable Acts – A Deadly Mind Trip into Theatre

We bring you a mutant hybrid of scripted drama and improvised comedy – taking the best / worst of Hollywood and showing you the film that plays out when our improvisers get their kaleidoscopic brains on it.

The players will begin performing a scripted play chosen by the audience; as the show progresses, the script is distorted, violated and abandoned. In its place we will create a new narrative, a squalid perversion of the playwright’s intentions or a beautiful butterfly made of broken dreams.

Challenging, deviant, endlessly inventive and surprising. Oh – and funny. Funny is important too.

Tuesday 19th November
7.30pm – £4
The Corner
8 Stoney Street
(off Broad Street)
Nottingham

**Bring your own drinks (yes, including alcofrolickal ones) and a jumper**

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Register for the MissImp Improv Beginners Course Now!

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The next Improv Comedy Beginners course starts on Monday!
InspirationThat means you only have two days left to register for the course – eek! This is a complete introduction to the skills and fun of improv comedy. Your teachers will be Nick and Parky, two of the faces most often seen at The Glee Club for MissImp in Action. Over the six week course we’ll teach you how to play games, inspire others and feel brilliant about what you do.
Course Details
When: 6 week course every Monday evening (except the late May Bank Holiday) starting on 13 May 2013 (so 13 and 20 May, 3, 10, 17 and 24 June). 7-10pm each week.
Where: The Corner, 8 Stoney Street, Nottingham, NG1 1LH (opposite the Old Angel pub)
Cost: £65 for the course
More course information here.
We Want You!
choose-boldly-and-kick-assTo join up, email us at [email protected] and we’ll send you the payment instructions right back.
We’ll be restricting the total number to around 12 so please sign up and pay ASAP to guarantee yourself a place. Please bear in mind that it is unlikely that we will be running any more beginners courses until October 2013 at the earliest.
If you have any questions at all please email us or phone (Nick) on 0786 3122 959.

Fuktotage: Improv Comedy Carnage – Thursday 6th December 2012

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MissImp presents… Fuktotage: Improv Comedy Carnage. Improv karaoke, only without the ghastly wailing!
This magical show is one in which ANYONE can perform – whether you have experience or not, whether you’ve ever improvised or not. We want YOU.

How the Christmas cheer does that work?

Everyone is welcome to throw their name into a hat and take to the stage when it’s drawn out. If you’d rather just hang out, meet some great people, watch and enjoy the performers drinking and playing totally uncensored improv, that’s cool too.

How Do I Get In?

This is a private party and you need to get on the guest list! Email now It’s something to do with it being a dinky little venue and there being enough booze.

*Entrance is just £2 whether you play or not.
*Joyously there will be a bar which won’t fleece you. If there are any special requests for drinks we can probably sort that out.

Find Us, Watch Us

The City Gallery
14a Long Row
(off the Market Square by The Works, down an alley filled with betting shops)
Nottingham
NG1 2DH

£2 entry
Doors open at 7pm with a licensed bar open till 11.30!
Show starts at 7.30pm.

This is a dinky little venue, so to be sure you can get a seat email us and we’ll put you on the priority list.

Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/487003351339804/

Consenting Partners – Friday 17th August

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MissImp presents…

Consenting Partners – the new wave of improvised comedy theatre for the Midlands. Mashing sketch comedy with long form and short form improv skills to provide you with high-velocity injection shots of comedy theatre.

Take Your Partner By The Hand/Foot

We’ve taken some of our most entertaining improvisers, teamed them up with each other and are letting them loose to perform unique, uncontrolled and unpredictable twenty minute shows. First up we’re serving weird and wonderful two player improv followed by a dessert course of three-way fun. Make no mistake, this is an intense experience requiring teamwork, Vulcan mind-melds and a six-pack of Pandora’s Boxes of imagination.

This is a brand new theatrical experience for Nottingham – be part of the most exciting new comedy and theatre in the Midlands – join us!

The teams*:
Bagging Area – Lloydie & Martin
Munchkin Bundle – Trilly & Marilyn
Bitchcock Kerfuffle – David & Nick

*all team names subject to whimsical change

Find Us, Watch Us

The City Gallery
14a Long Row
(off the Market Square by The Works, down an alley filled with betting shops)
Nottingham
NG1 2DH

£3 entry
Doors open at 7pm with a licensed bar open till Midnight!
Show starts at 8pm to finish by 10pm with an interval.

This is a dinky little venue, so to be sure you can get a seat email us and we’ll put you on the priority list.

Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/423553087686737/