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Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Join our lunchtime improv comedy classes at Bristol Improv Theatre for a creative power-up! Perfect for creatives & freelancers, these drop-in sessions with Rebecca MacMillan support you to explore your inner playfulness, boost your confidence and wellbeing, and unlock your inner comic genius. No previous experience needed – just come and enjoy the spontaneity!
Performing Improv L2: Approaches to Scenework
Performing Improv L2: Approaches to Scenework
This 7-week course delves into improvisation techniques and theory from a range of perspectives to help you stretch your scenic muscles and develop your own approach to scenework. A great course for those looking to develop their scenework skills and explore their personal voice as an improviser.
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. Our experienced facilitators will guide and support you on your journey towards performing.
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Discovering Improv
Discovering Improv
This six-week course is a voyage through spontaneity, creativity, and connection. Our experienced instructors will guide you through games, exercises, and reflections that will equip you with the tools to improvise, both on stage and off.
Performing Improv Level 1: Telling Stories
Performing Improv Level 1: Telling Stories
This seven-week course combines techniques inspired by legendary improviser Keith Johnstone and Pixar Animation Studios to equip students with a formidable toolkit of storytelling techniques and skills. From confidence and communication skills to knowing how to make bold choices to keep the story alive (or deliver a surprising twist ending), you’ll train the narrative instincts that will grab and sustain your audience’s interest.
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‘The Mastery of Self Expression’ Taster Session
‘The Mastery of Self Expression’ Taster Session
Equal parts performance masterclass and personal development course, The Mastery of Self Expression will help you grow your capacity for creative and spontaneous self-expression and discover how to come deeply into relationship with yourself and your ‘audience’ – both on and off stage. Come meet the facilitators and find out how. NB The workshop itself will take place April 11-13th offsite in south Bristol. For info: Facebook MasteryBristol
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Bristol Longform Takeover
Bristol Longform Takeover
Get ready for a takeover! Bristol Longform Comedy will be taking charge of the Bristol Improv Theatre to show you the wide range of wonderful improv troupes Bristol has to offer.
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Global Majority Improv Drop-In
Global Majority Improv Drop-In
This fun and friendly workshop for people from Global Majority backgrounds is open to all levels – you can be completely new to improv or looking to brush up on your basics and practise improv in a different context.
Improv Your Perspective with Emma Boddy
Improv Your Perspective with Emma Boddy
This is a dynamic course for those interested in both personal development and improv, and are eager to explore new ways of thinking. The course encourages participants to connect through playful improvised theatre games and exercises. It incorporates Playback Theatre forms as its central method, offering a creative way to explore a new way of seeing things.
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Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Join our lunchtime improv comedy classes at Bristol Improv Theatre for a creative power-up! Perfect for creatives & freelancers, these drop-in sessions with Rebecca MacMillan support you to explore your inner playfulness, boost your confidence and wellbeing, and unlock your inner comic genius. No previous experience needed – just come and enjoy the spontaneity!
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The Bish Bosh Bash: The Improvised Game Show
The Bish Bosh Bash: The Improvised Game Show
The Bish Bosh Bash: The Improvised Game Show is back, bringing songs, scenes and silliness - an easy going and mischievous evening awaits!
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International Women’s Day hosted by The Muses
International Women’s Day hosted by The Muses
Celebrate International Women’s Day with an all-woman line-up at the Bristol Improv Theatre, showcasing some of the Bristol improv scene’s fantastic female talent. Bristol’s own legendary all-women team The Muses are your hosts for the evening, which will also feature a team they have assembled for the evening from open auditions, bringing a new group of women improvisers to the stage.
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Improv Jam & Social
Improv Jam & Social
Join us for an evening of improv games, socialising and fun at our monthly jam at the Bristol Improv Theatre!
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Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Join our lunchtime improv comedy classes at Bristol Improv Theatre for a creative power-up! Perfect for creatives & freelancers, these drop-in sessions with Rebecca MacMillan support you to explore your inner playfulness, boost your confidence and wellbeing, and unlock your inner comic genius. No previous experience needed – just come and enjoy the spontaneity!
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Double Bill: Fabled & The Table Read
Double Bill: Fabled & The Table Read
Gather round weary travellers, for a fantastic storytelling double bill featuring London’s improvised fantasy adventure Fabled, and Bristol’s own The Table Read - exploring the film scripts that never quite made it.
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LGBTQ+ Improv Drop-In
LGBTQ+ Improv Drop-In
Join our LGBTQ+ improv workshop, led by experienced LGBTQ+ instructors! Perfect for all skill levels—whether you're a beginner or an experienced improviser—these fun and inclusive sessions focus on self-expression, celebrating your identity, and building connections in a supportive community. Discover the joy of improv in a safe and welcoming space!
Improv Taster Session
Improv Taster Session
Facilitated by an experienced Bristol Improv Theatre instructor, the class will explore the fundamental skills of improvisation using a smorgasbord of improv games and exercises. It’s a great chance to try improv and connect with others in a playful way.
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Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Join our lunchtime improv comedy classes at Bristol Improv Theatre for a creative power-up! Perfect for creatives & freelancers, these drop-in sessions with Rebecca MacMillan support you to explore your inner playfulness, boost your confidence and wellbeing, and unlock your inner comic genius. No previous experience needed – just come and enjoy the spontaneity!
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The Improv Gym
The Improv Gym
Part rehearsal room, part personal improv training, The Improv Gym is a facilitated space where you can work on your skills and draw upon the expertise of our experienced teaching staff.
Glam Jam
Glam Jam
Did you know we’ve been nominated for an award? We’re very excited, but since we can’t take everyone to the awards ceremony we’re hosting a celebratory improv jam for those that can’t go! A bit like an awards season after party, but earlier in the evening and with more improv… Dress code: Glam but still able to Jam!
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This Is Your Musical
This Is Your Musical
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!
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The Improv Lab
The Improv Lab
Welcome to The Improv Lab! Join us at The Bristol Improv Theatre for a weekend afternoon to watch 4 different groups from the local Bristol improv community. For free!
Double Bill: Night Fictions & The Bish Bosh Bash and Friends Presents: Story Smash!
Double Bill: Night Fictions & The Bish Bosh Bash and Friends Presents: Story Smash!
This Saturday’s double bill of interactive storytelling features Night Fictions and The Bish Bosh Bash and Friends Presents: Story Smash! Expect surreal, improvised adventures with music and soundscaping, plus four never-before-seen stories - only one of which gets an ending, decided by you! A night of mystery, creativity, and audience-driven fun.
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Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Join our lunchtime improv comedy classes at Bristol Improv Theatre for a creative power-up! Perfect for creatives & freelancers, these drop-in sessions with Rebecca MacMillan support you to explore your inner playfulness, boost your confidence and wellbeing, and unlock your inner comic genius. No previous experience needed – just come and enjoy the spontaneity!
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Little Improv Festival: Track 96 present The Oracle
Little Improv Festival: Track 96 present The Oracle
Join London's premier hip-hop improv crew for an unforgettable night where your destiny unfolds live on stage. Be part of an experience where freestyle meets foresight. Don't miss this unique blend of music, comedy, and spontaneous storytelling!
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Little Improv Festival: Improv Taster Session
Little Improv Festival: Improv Taster Session
As part of the Little Improv Festival you can join us for a taster session to give improv a go!
Little Improv Festival: Track 96 Greets and Beats Workshop
Little Improv Festival: Track 96 Greets and Beats Workshop
This fun, three-hour morning workshop is designed to introduce performers to the basics of freestyle rapping and beatboxing, helping them find their flow, work with a beat, and construct verses that enhance improvised scenes. Participants will learn hip hop fundamentals and how to initiate raps within improvisations, weaving their characters and scenes into on-the-spot creations. Whether experienced or brand new to hip hop, all are welcome to join us in Bristol.
Little Improv Festival: Saturday Day Event
Little Improv Festival: Saturday Day Event
The Little Improv Festival is a three-day celebration of Bristol’s improv scene, hosted by the Bristol Improv Theatre. With the Saturday Day Ticket you can enjoy a warm welcome, improv games, and a jam-packed lineup of back-to-back performances, showcasing exciting acts from Bristol and beyond!
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Little Improv Festival: Connected Improv with Rebecca Macmillan
Little Improv Festival: Connected Improv with Rebecca Macmillan
Improv is a co-creative art-form and not an individual sport - that can be hard to remember in scenes and on stage though! The sense of magic when two or more people are improvising in a connected way is totally enthralling to watch.
Expect slow-burn connected improv with a side-helping of possible ego-loss (in a good way!)
Little Improv Festival: Sunday Day Event
Little Improv Festival: Sunday Day Event
The Little Improv Festival is a three-day celebration of Bristol’s improv scene, hosted by the Bristol Improv Theatre. With the Sunday Day Ticket you can enjoy a warm welcome, improv games, and a jam-packed lineup of back-to-back performances, showcasing exciting acts from Bristol and beyond!
Little Improv Festival Closing Talk, Panel & Jam
Little Improv Festival Closing Talk, Panel & Jam
Of course we’re ending the Little Improv Festival with an Improv Jam! After the success of our fantastic Panel & Jam as part of last summer’s Improv Appreciation Weekend, we’ve brought this format back to get more expert thoughts on improv, kicking off with a talk on the Inclusive Origins of Improv by David Escobedo of the Improv Boost.
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Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca MacMillan
Join our lunchtime improv comedy classes at Bristol Improv Theatre for a creative power-up! Perfect for creatives & freelancers, these drop-in sessions with Rebecca MacMillan support you to explore your inner playfulness, boost your confidence and wellbeing, and unlock your inner comic genius. No previous experience needed – just come and enjoy the spontaneity!
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Global Majority Improv Drop-In
Global Majority Improv Drop-In
This fun and friendly workshop for people from Global Majority backgrounds is open to all levels – you can be completely new to improv or looking to brush up on your basics and practise improv in a different context.
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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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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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