Charles Blake reviews Rhapsodes at the Pleasance, Edinburgh Improv doesn’t get much harder than this. Adam Meggido and Sean McCann, stars of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, return to the Fringe as “Rhapsodes”—a term used in ancient Greece for competitive poets. Over the course of an hour, they create […]
Charlotte Pegram checks out the opening night of The London Jam at Wilton’s Music Hall A week of improvised theatre is happening at the wonderful Wilton’s Music Hall. It’s all roughly planned out in advance though, isn’t it? No. Honestly, it isn’t. From an improvised Ibsen play for […]
It’s a simple set-up. The audience fills out a form while queuing for the show; they accuse someone they know of a crime, and they provide a line or two of substantiating evidence. Then the show gets up and running and one of these ‘criminals’ is called to […]