Shows

Red String Theory: A theoretical framework based on the existence of playful red strings that link actors by the stories they tell and the characters they embody. On the surface you could mistake these strings as lonesome red dots. But you’d be wrong. Unlimited stories, 50 minutes 19 actors and one red string, in theory...

An improvised show where mime, acrobatics and music are combined in a funny and imaginative way. On stage are physical comedians Morgan Mansouri and Frédéric Pont from France, and Jacintha Damström from Finland, who will take you to the world of the wordless.

“The God created her, the Devil posessed, Forever she’s sinful, forever she’s saint, The good, and the bad, the tricky, sincere. The passion, despair, the smile, and the tear, And angel, and demon, and terror, and wonder, The peak over clouds, deph deep as can be, Beginning, the end, the woman - that’s me.” - Julian Tuwim

“7 Women of Different Ages” is also a title of a documentary film by Krzysztof Kieślowski, as it is a direct inspiration for their show, in which actresses and women from the audience share particular moments of their lives, what they realized, what changed with years, and based on that they take you to improvised adventure told in several stories about being a women in XXIst century.

The king wants a theatre play. He doesn't know what he wants, but he wants it right now. A playwright and a jester must collaborate to create a story to satisfy the king, and they only have 30 minutes to please the king's whim. Their lives depend on it. This improvised play highlights the importance of oral tradition and storytelling through two different and conflicting characters: a calm, brain-centered playwright and a wacky physical jester.

This ticket gives you access to:
          both the shows at 20:00 and 21:20,
          one of the shows at 22:45* and
          our grand after-party on Saturday, after the final show.

*Only limited seats available per late-night show so get your late-night card before the first main show starts. Ask at the entrance desk.

Free preshow this Monday: Long Form Musical Intensive 17:30 - 18:45

A passepartout gives you access to:
          six evenings full of shows,
          and our grand after-party on Saturday, after the final show!

Don't miss a thing!
Admit it, six evenings of improv is not nearly enough to get you through the winter, but it's a start....

It’s graduation night for the Grapevine High School improv comedy class! There’s just one small problem: the drama teacher fell sick at the last minute. Luckily the high school football coach, Ted Rookard, has volunteered to direct the show. He’s got a sports-minded attitude and a brand-new copy of “Improv for Dummies.” What could go wrong?
Work your own improv magic with cast members! No ticket needed, just hop in!

Sharpen your samurai sword for this fully improvised play in the style of Pulp Fiction’s Quentin Tarantino. It’s a show packed with clever dialogue, grindhouse music, and just enough violence to pay homage to this Reservoir Dog of a filmmaker.

A twisted musical tale inspired by Tim Burton and The Brothers Grimm. Starting with your suggestion, these award-winning improvisers weave a fantastical tale dripping with black comedy, disturbing characters and haunting live music that’s different every time. ""Fantastic! Improvisational theatre at its best!"" ***** (Broadway Baby). ""Certainly worthy of Burton"" (Chortle). ""Hilarious!"" (Colin Mochrie).

Loser Circus is an improvised narrative story that takes place in the golden ages of travelling circuses. It’s a show that brings the heartwarming feel of a classic underdog story together with the rush and valor of the live acts that can only happen inside a circus ring. A sneak peak, if you will, into the whimsical yet hard life that starts when the curtains are closed. Doris is known for their scenes with big heart and physicality, and in this brand new original format they will once again create dynamic scenes between strong characters, without forgetting the joyful comedy found along the way.

Tonight we have a great show for you with two solo-improvisers, both showing their unique take on solo improv.

Last year Theo Langason rocked our main stage with his group Blackout Improv. Now he's back! Solo and intimate... he creates improvised poems and songs inspired by the audience's happiest memories.

"Dance, Monkey!" is an improvised one-woman show with an ever-emerging cast of thousands of characters. Music inspires dance, movement, personalities, points of view, location, time, tone and pace as one scene moves to the next. "Dance, Monkey!" is comedic monologues and scenes just like a solo theatre piece, except everything is made up on the spot and the characters are talking right to you!

This ticket gives you access to:
          both the shows at 20:00 and 21:20,
          one of the shows at 22:45* and
          our grand after-party on Saturday, after the final show.

*Only limited seats available per late-night show so get your late-night card before the first main show starts. Ask at the entrance desk.

Free open stage this Wednesday: Presented by Coach Rookard 17:30 - 18:45

A passepartout gives you access to:
          six evenings full of shows,
          and our grand after-party on Saturday, after the final show!

Don't miss a thing!
Admit it, six evenings of improv is not nearly enough to get you through the winter, but it's a start....

It’s graduation night for the Grapevine High School improv comedy class! There’s just one small problem: the drama teacher fell sick at the last minute. Luckily the high school football coach, Ted Rookard, has volunteered to direct the show. He’s got a sports-minded attitude and a brand-new copy of “Improv for Dummies.” What could go wrong?
Work your own improv magic with cast members! No ticket needed, just hop in!

Magic can deepen reality. Time can be fluid. People can be anything. Day to day life is sparked with a touch of fantasy; and future, past and present are happening all at the same time. No one is asking "what is true?" or "what is fake?", there is just pure acceptance of things as they are. The tension is building, the narrative unfolds and an improvised show of magic realism is taking its place.
Inspired by great writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende and Toni Morrison, this show is a tribute to the mid-twentieth century genre of "magic realism".

4 are alive. 3 have careers. 1 is rich. 4 want a change.
3 are happy. 4 are feminists. 2 are mothers. 3 feel alone. 2 are political. 4 are badly paid. 1 just wants sex. 4 lost someone. 2 won't ask. 1 is still smiling. 2 are religious. 2 are heterosexual. 1 is polyamorous. 2 are depressed. 1 doesn't shave. 2 own apartments. 4 are middle class. 2 are searching for a lover. 4 are from different countries. 3 don't believe in true love. 1 is a communist. 4 have vaginas. 2 nearly quit theatre. 4 enjoy improvisation. 2 fear the unknown. 3 are precarious workers. 2 are afraid. 3 are brave. 4 play.

“Saudade” is often regarded as the most untranslatable of all Portuguese words. The main reason you can’t convey it in another language is its inherently paradoxical nature, which a poet once described as a “wellness you suffer of and an evil you enjoy.” The root of the word is Latin for solitude, yet it has, throughout history, united the Portuguese as a people living a common experience. It is something abstract that you feel, but also something somewhat more concrete that you have. It’s usually defined as a longing for the past, but you also feel it for things that are yet to be. You can feel it for objects, moments, places, people, and not only those you’ve experienced: it allows you to remember just as fondly the smell of your childhood home and a fishing trip your grandfather likes to talk about, a certain June morning, 1951. It’s as if every point in time was just a location you could find on a map, but it is always so distant that is utterly unattainable.

Which brings us to “Saudade”, the show. We can’t translate “saudade” with words, but we’ll try with improv. We begin by taking inspiration in memories from the audience, which will trigger monologues where we’ll explore a memory of our own, on the topic of a related subject we have “saudades” about. From there we start a journey of diverse short and medium length scenes, some funny, some bittersweet, turning our initial inspiration into a machine to create stories, moments and new memories.

Origami Swan is a show about the resonance of a relationship. In the Japanese art of origami, a single piece of paper contains a world of possibilities, with each fold guiding the material towards its final form. Yet even as it stands completed, the origami swan still holds within it the possibilities of what might have been. In Origami Swan, Ella Galt (BIG, Barcelona) and Dan Seyfried (La Carpe Haute, Strasbourg) present an intimate theatrical exploration of quantum multiverse theory, in which every choice you've ever made and never made exist in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes. As the reach of our possible worlds unfolds before us, we discover that the decisions we make are at once intensely powerful, and totally meaningless.

This ticket gives you access to:
          both the shows at 20:00 and 21:20,
          one of the shows at 22:45* and
          our grand after-party on Saturday, after the final show.

*Only limited seats available per late-night show so get your late-night card before the first main show starts. Ask at the entrance desk.

Free open stage this Friday: Presented by Coach Rookard 17:30 - 18:45

A passepartout gives you access to:
          six evenings full of shows,
          and our grand after-party on Saturday, after the final show!

Don't miss a thing!
Admit it, six evenings of improv is not nearly enough to get you through the winter, but it's a start....