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Discovering Improv
Discovering Improv
This Course Has Now Sold Out! Improv isn’t just about being funny (although it is often very funny). For us, improv is about building confidence, celebrating the screw-up and connecting with amazing people. This six-week course is a voyage through spontaneity, creativity and connection. We’ll show you the basic tools to improvise both on stage…
Building Better Characters with Maria Peters
Building Better Characters with Maria Peters
Push the boundaries of your comfort zone and break new ground in improvising characters outside of your default character range. In this six-week course you will explore and develop the range of characters you can become with the expert assistance of Maria Peters. Everyone has their go-to characters in improv, whether they’re realistic and natural,…
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Intro to Performing Improv
Intro to Performing Improv
Following on from our hugely popular Discovering Improv course, this six-week course will immerse you in the fundamentals of improvising for an audience through games, exercises and scenes. You’ll explore and build on the concepts of acceptance, support and listening with fun and thought-provoking exercises and games. Intro to Performing is the perfect course to…
Performing Improv Level 1: Creating Characters
Performing Improv Level 1: Creating Characters
Be anyone (or anything) you want to be! This course introduces the tools, techniques, and tricks used to create characters on-the-spot in performance. Physicality, status and relationships between characters are all explored as you build your confidence when stepping into another character’s shoes. Expect lots of fun, games, and shared joy along the way! Performing…
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The Bish Bosh Bash: The Improvised Game Show
The Bish Bosh Bash: The Improvised Game Show
Friday 3rd March | 20:00 Friday 7th April | 20:00 Friday 5th May | 20:00 Friday 2nd June | 20:00 The Bish Bosh Bash: The Improvised Game Show is back, bringing songs, scenes and silliness. The Bish Bosh Bash is a great introduction for those who’ve never seen improv before. An easy going and mischievous evening awaits.…
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Biscuit Barrel’s Comedy Tin
Biscuit Barrel’s Comedy Tin
4 acts, hosted by a sketch show? Bristol’s weirdest comedy night returns for 2023! Featuring over 30 sketches from the Barrel, as well as some of the finest acts in stand-up, improv and beyond. “An excellent comedy show” ★★★★ – Broadway Baby (2022) ★★★★★ – Veronica Lee’s ‘Best of the Rest of the Fest’, Scottish…
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Truth in Comedy – Student Showcase
Truth in Comedy – Student Showcase
Come and see the graduates of Maria Peters’ Truth in Comedy course as they share some of the skills they’ve been building over the 8 weeks of the course. Maria's students will be improvising sketches and scenes drawn from honest observations on life, creating hilarious and moving moments not by making it all up, but…
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Tales of Adventure
Tales of Adventure
Join our brave band of heroes in an epic fantasy quest, improvised LIVE before your very eyes! Led by the all-powerful Gamemaster – our heroes will search for treasure, battle deadly foes, and contend with dangerous twists of fate as they struggle against evil to save the world! Our heroes will enter a magical fantasy…
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Bareback Kings – Find Your Drag Persona
Bareback Kings – Find Your Drag Persona
Deconstruct gender characteristics and play with drag as a medium to tell stories led by Francesca Reid from Bareback Kings - the improvised drag king group of unique women playing average lads.
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Stage Craft for Improv
Stage Craft for Improv
Saturday 11th March | 13:00 - 17:00 Ever watched an improv show & simply seen two talking heads in front of you? Whilst the improv may still be great, there’s so much more you can add to your scenes to make them more engaging. In this workshop, we’ll explore how you can add gravitas and…
The Dirty Immigrant – A Stand Up Comedy Show
The Dirty Immigrant – A Stand Up Comedy Show
If you’re someone who thinks we should question everything about life, love, religion and politics then you’re going to love traveling Romanian comedian Victor Patrascan.
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The Dirty Immigrant – A Stand Up Comedy Show
The Dirty Immigrant – A Stand Up Comedy Show
If you’re someone who thinks we should question everything about life, love, religion and politics then you’re going to love traveling Romanian comedian Victor Patrascan.
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BBFC Presents: PLANET OF DINOSAURS (1977)
BBFC Presents: PLANET OF DINOSAURS (1977)
As Adam Driver battles prehistoric beasts in the big budget 65, we opted for a much lower budget alternative – 1977’s Planet of Dinosaurs!
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This Is Your Musical
This Is Your Musical
Friday 16th June | 20:00 Friday 21st July | 20:00 Friday 18th August | 20:00 Friday 15th September | 20:00 (Doors open 19:30) Prepare to be amazed as you witness the creation of a brand new musical theatre show, courtesy of The Bristol Improv Theatre’s flagship musical theatre company, This Is Your Musical! Take your…
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Bristol Improv Theatre’s Armando Night!
Bristol Improv Theatre’s Armando Night!
Bristol is an incredible city for improv comedy and this is a celebration of just that! After the success of last year's debut, a collection of players from Bristol’s leading improv teams are performing together for a night packed with talent, energy and ideas. Inspired by stories from incredible special guests, your improvisers will do…
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Fishing for Memories and Resistance
Fishing for Memories and Resistance
First UK theatre performance by women of the Colombian feminist and pacifist NGO Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres
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MTB’s Leavers Cabaret 2023
MTB’s Leavers Cabaret 2023
Join MTB's Leavers for a cabaret filled with all your favourite shows. Chicago, Hamilton and Waitress as well as many more will be performed by our lovely cast. We hope you enjoy!
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Improv Double Bill: Spacecats & Real Positive Poles
Improv Double Bill: Spacecats & Real Positive Poles
The Bristol Improv Theatre presents a double bill of improvised comedy especially sourced from the South West. SPACECATS Spacecats is a surreal episodic comedy show, where you will see improvisers play anything from atoms to asteroids. Like brave astronomers, like wise philosophers, like kittens playing with a ball of yarn, they delve into the great…
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Sticky Notes! Bristol Revunions Student Comedy Night
Sticky Notes! Bristol Revunions Student Comedy Night
The Bristol Revunions are back to host a night of student comedy! With special guests Bristol Improv and a host of local stand-ups. What more could you want?
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Improvise Freely with Patti Stiles
In this workshop we challenge the rules as absolutes and create freedom in our improvisational work as we focus on the tools, techniques and choices.
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Gender & Genre with Patti Stiles
Gender & Genre with Patti Stiles
Many of the genres we perform reflect out dated social rules heavily categorised into male and female behaviour. Today’s world is different yet our storytelling is still shackled to these historical gendered roles.
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Masterclass on You
Masterclass on You
Master Class is designed for the experienced improviser and is focused on providing specific feedback on the individual from an experienced outside eye.
Info about
group bookings
Looking for a fun and unique experience for a night out? The Bristol Improv Theatre can organise discounts and added value experiences for groups.
Our shows include improvised musicals, high energy comedy game shows and more great improvised theatre from Bristol-based companies and visiting acts.
Interested in bringing your party to the UK’s first dedicated improv theatre?
We have put together a great value deal for group bookings, which we can tailor to your needs.
10 Tickets 2 Bottles of Prosecco Standard cost: £150
Experiences and prices are negotiable.
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get involved?
Find out more about work and volunteer opportunities, improv groups, and the Friend Scheme – BIT’s philanthropic initiative to help more and more people get into improv.
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