SÉANCE FICTION AT IMPRO FEST FRI. 25 MARCH

Fri 25 March 2016 .
9.30pm

The Tristan Bates Theatre,
1a Tower Street,
London WC2H 9NP.

£10/£7
http://www.improfestuk.co.uk/2016/seance-fiction.html

Starring Dylan Emery, David Reed, Alison Thea-Skot, Suki Webster and Phil Whelans.

Join five of London’s leading improvisers on a ride into the unknown on the comedy ghost-train, as we explore the life and recent death of a character you help to invent. Three strangers have received a mysterious summons to take part in a séance. And so have you.
A voice is calling from beyond the grave! Who is it? We don’t know. What does it want? We don’t know. Why don’t we know? We don’t know. Because everything about the deceased will be improvised.

Like Derek Acorah or Psychic Sally, we’re making it up as we go along.

Dylan Emery is co-founder of Edinburgh, West End and Radio 4 Impro Hit The Showstoppers and Ken Campbell-inspired hard-bardics masterclass, the School of Night. Like an online Noah, building a virtual ark out of zeros and ones, then playing a nationwide game of animal characteristics, Dylan's Crunchy Frog Collective website brings all of the U.K.'s impro under One Worldwide Roof.

David Reed One third of monster hit sketch team The Penny Dreadfuls (two series and several one-offs on BBC Radio 4.) David has been on TV in such shows as Gary: Tank Commander, Fast and Loose, It's Kevin (which Phil was in too) and Father Figure.

Alison Thea-Skot - Recently starred in So On & So Forth for BBC Radio 4. Nominated for Best Actress at the 2014 British Independent Film Festival, Alison has worked everywhere - from Shakespeare's Globe to The Basil Brush Show* for the BBC. As an improviser, she guests with Chortle award winners Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel. She is also a member of 5 star improv super-group the Free Association.

Suki Webster - Comedy Store Player, Paul Merton's Impro Chum, Eddie Izzard's co-conspirator in Impro M.D. and One-Word Improv, and Ross Noble’s for his run of shows at the Cutty Sark. Suki has developed her own Impro Format, The Guest Speaker.

Phil Whelans - Writer and performer of his own Radio 4 sitcom, My First Planet, founder member of Pros from Dover - with whom he did two series of Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage. As a writer or performer, Phil has worked with everyone from Robin Williams to Chris Morris, Al Gore to Brian Conley, Joan Rivers to Basil Brush.* He improvises with Grand Theft Impro and Monkey Toast.
*Spooky