Theatresports Grand Championships | ImproMafia
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Theatresports Grand Championships | ImproMafia

I counted fourteen different scenes across the show, which I thought was an impressive number for an hour-long show, and served as a tantalising sampler of the wide, wild world of impro possibilities. Over those scenes, the performers each showcased their strong individual talents for improvisation, imagination, and characterisation – and their sheer joy at being on stage was palpable. There was a great sense of chemistry between all of the performers, which allowed them to skillfully, smoothly riff off each other through even the most surprising changes in a scene.

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Cool Story Bro, Culprits & Interstate Mates | Brisbane Improv Festival
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Cool Story Bro, Culprits & Interstate Mates | Brisbane Improv Festival

Scenes developed at a rapid pace and build and strange, weird and wonderful directions. They go forward and back in time, explore the most obscure ideas. The improvisers jumped in whenever they got an idea and everyone was given a chance to play and lead. Jasmine’s love of peanut butter and disappointment in how small the containers are at the supermarket, unfolds as a scene of a couple’s illegal obsession with tiny anthropomorphic foods and Aarons tale of travelling in a tiny sleeper train in winter develops into a son taking his parents to school for a career day, who just happen to be stuck living in a fridge.

Those meagre descripions are in no way doing justice to the chaotic hilarity that unfurled before us.

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Tit’s Up | Good Chat Comedy Club
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Tit’s Up | Good Chat Comedy Club

There was something really welcoming about an all-woman line-up. There was no bros club vibes, no borderline sexist jokes to bore the women in the crowd, no locker room humour, plenty of smut but all of it was self-directed, this was art that punches up – and really there should be no other kind – nobody made anyone uncomfortable, except in a nerdy kind of way, and it was a real relief to be honest.

It was a solid way to spend a Friday night. Would go again. Would recommend.

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By Request | Jenny Wynter
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By Request | Jenny Wynter

Jenny and Angie Wynter made a great team. I assumed they had set rhythms of songs they were going to perform and then Jenny improvised the lyrics. Her talent as a professional singer shone through, unbelievable that she could sing so beautifully and be constructing lyrics at the same time. I fully expected to see smoke coming out of her ears, that’s how fast her brain appeared to be working.

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