What is the show that you are bringing to the stage in this Festive season?

 

It’s our Winter Wonderland, which will be a mix of improv, stand-up and prizes to be won in our music quiz. The stand-up comes from Kayleigh Cassidy (“the right amount of mental”), the improv from Do The Right Scene (“fast paced and funny”), from Dingbats (Judi Dench: “hilarious”), and from our show How To Be Human. We’re excited about all of it and there are more details about each act on the Facebook event/ticket link below.

Will there be a bit of festivity in your show?

 

We’re on January 4th which is definitely the tail end of the season, but that seems all the more reason to make it an island of festive joy – with mince pies and tinsel and a bit of cosy wintery music. And comedy, of course. And prizes. Prizes feel festive – they may even be wrapped. Come find out!

What are your favourite things about the festive season and why?

 

Robin: For me it’s the way everything stops. There’s a bubble around Christmas that shouldn’t be pricked in a way there nearly is but not quite around Easter. I like that bubble to extend around Winter Wonderland, like the USS Enterprise extending its shields.

Rosie: Coming in from the cold to somewhere cosy, singing All I Want for Christmas Is You and drinking mulled wine.

Carly: Getting drunk with reindeers.

Andy: (tumbleweeds)

What advice would you give for people performing around the festive season – is it important to drop a Christmas related theme into it?

 

If you want to do it, do it.

We put a lot of effort into making everyone feel welcome and hopefully that comes across. We’ve done a few of these nights now and we want them to feel good for everyone; we also want to put on a range of acts to show people what improv can do without getting all in their faces about it. And there’s the prizes, too, in the music quiz – those are usually quite good and the quiz itself is fun.

What is YOUR favourite show you have done this year and why?

Our Summer Fling at the end of August, as it was the first time we’d run a full night at the Miller and everyone seemed to have a nice time, and that’s always the best reward for organising a night. It was a good turn out, too, so that was pleasing.

Big lovely time.

(Please note: the majority of these come from Andy.)

This could be one of those legal thrillers, like “The Pelican Brief” or any John Grisham.

Forrest Gump with a deer.

I Won’t be Home For Christmas

A conversation between an inmate and their partner with the telephones and glass between them.

Aerobic class. Xmas theme. Everybody is full of turkey and nauseous.

Home makeover show. This has no Xmas meaning to me at all.

For 364 days of the year, LITERALLY nothing is different.

During the school Nativity, one boy’s obsession playing the drums leads his schoolmates to consider him irritating.

A lonely mouse celebrates the festive period by dressing up a collection of dried fruits and having a dinner party with them.

A possessive apostrophe goes missing.

A grove far away from people, where Christmas trees live on their own terms and raise families, undecorated and free.