Brian Logan’s claim that improvisation is “finally catching on in Britain” seems to step over a rather substantial history of companies and performers using the form in this country. At the very least, any company working with forum or playback theatre forms is heavily dependent on the skills and conventions of improvisation. I’m thinking here …
A brief twitch before my brain caught up: If, like me, you’ve been to all previous 10 years of the Chicago Improv Festival, you might have been wondering what happened to the annual April confab of spontaneously funny people. Isn’t it now almost June? Well, this year the writers’ strike got in the way. That’s …
Idil: the Brechtarians appear in the doctor who Season 5 finale the cliffhanger comes about when they threaten social change me: joke about alienation about now I think. alien – nation! ha! Idil: ha!! me: JOKE Idil: BRECHTARIANS ENJOY JOKES me: BUT THEY WILL NOT HESITATE TO DESTROY THE CATHERINE TATE Sent at 12:24 PM …
Great news: Aeneas Faversham Forever has just been crowned Best Comedy Show at the Brighton Festival Awards. Congratulations to Thom, Dave, Humphrey, Idil and Neil. Work has me (happily) pinned down in Scotland, so I’ve been an absentee producer for far too many months this year – but the show’s in great shape and that …