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Want to give the gift of impro? Gift certificates are available to purchase here, and can be redeemed for any of our classes and shows!
Upcoming Shows
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Impro Open Mic Night
7:30pm - 18 April, 30 May, 27 June, 19 September, October 31 Prompt Creative Centre, 8/205 Pirie St, Adelaide Welcome to Impro Open Mic, where improvisors old and new come together to put on one heck of a show! Each show is unique, and guided by an experienced On the Fly player. There may be classic impro games, open scenes, directed scenes, short form, long form and everything in-between. But one thing’s for sure - when nothing’s off the table, improvisors will be leaving everything on the stage! Want to get involved in an Impro Open Mic, and not sure how? Email [email protected], or message us on our socials. |
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Theatresports!
7:30pm - November 26, 27, 28 Rhino Room, 1/131 Pirie St, Adelaide It’s daring! It’s exciting! It’s everyone’s favourite impro show: Theatresports! Theatresports mixes the thrill of impro with the energy of a sporting event, putting you right on the sidelines of side-splitting scenes as our teams go head-to-head on stage, making everything up on the spot! Performing short games like the kind you see on 'Whose Line is It Anyway?', this hilarious show pits some of Adelaide’s best improvisers against each other in a battle for your love, laughter and the coveted SA Theatresports Cup trophy! TheatresportsTM is a trademarked Keith Johnstone format; its licence is held by ImproNOW! in SA and we perform it with permission. |
Past Shows
On the Fly Impro perform established improvised theatre formats including Gorilla, Maestro and Theatresports – as well as some of our own. All our shows feature On the Fly improvisers, sometimes joined by special guests!
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Gorilla Theatre
7:30pm - 26-27 September 2:00pm - 29 September Prompt Creative Centre, 8/205 Pirie St, Adelaide Five Directors. One Gorilla. Some Monkey Business. In this daring and hilarious format, five improvisors direct scenes to inspire, challenge and excite their fellow players. Succeed in the audience's eyes, and they win a banana! Fail, and the director will have to perform a forfeit - maybe apologise for their scene in interpretive dance, or explain what went wrong in rhyming couplets! Watch these directors compete to fulfil their artistic visions, since only one gets the ultimate prize: a week of quality time with the gorilla! |
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The Mullet - Mid-Year Grad show
7:30pm - 8 August 2024 Prompt Creative Centre On the Fly proudly presents its 2024 mid-year Graduation Show! These shows are a chance for some of On the Fly’s freshest improvisor talent to strut their stuff on the Prompt Creative stage, as they tackle Ryan Millar’s hilarious Mullet format. With business in the front and a party in the back, this classic show format gives the cast lots of opportunities to delight, enthrall and entertain! The cast of these shows is drawn from performers who have completed On the Fly’s four core improcourses by the end of July 2024. |
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The Saboteur
7:30pm - 2-3 August 2024 Star Theatres, 145 Sir Donald Bradman Dr, Hilton Five performers are all working hard to put on a good improv show. Well, almost all of them. One of them is trying to sabotage the show without getting caught. Will The Saboteur be unmasked before the evening is ruined? It’s a reality television show on stage, for fans of Whodunnits and Whose Line alike. It’s devious. It’s hilarious. It’s thrilling. It’s The Saboteur. Good luck. Fresh from hit seasons in Australia, New Zealand and the US, join us for a high- stakes, interactive evening of subterfuge, treachery, backstabbing, and laughs! Created by Jim Fishwick, presented by Jim Fishwick and On the Fly Impro |
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Maestro Impro™ | Adelaide Fringe Festival
7:30pm, 16 - 19 February 2024 9:00pm, 28 - 29 February 2024 Prompt Creative Centre, 8/205 Pirie St, Adelaide Performing hilarious, improvised games like you'd see on 'Whose Line is It Anyway?' Maestro pits Adelaide's funniest and brightest improvisers against each other in a winner-takes-all battle for glory. You choose who survives! With everything made up on the spot, Maestro is an unscripted, wild ride from start to finish. ★★★★ "The enthusiasm from all on stage is contagious... an experience not to be missed" The Advertiser 2022 ★★★★½ "Riotous laughs... all without a script" Kryztoff RAW. SOLD OUT 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2022! Maestro Impro™ is created (©) by Keith Johnstone (Keith Johnstone Workshops) registered in the USA, Canada and other countries. All Rights Reserved. Production rights are exclusively managed by International Theatresports™ Insititute: www.theatresports.com |
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Theatresports TM
7:30pm, 23 & 30 November 2023 Rhino Room 1/131 Pirie St Adelaide It’s daring! It’s exciting! It’s everyone’s favourite impro show: TheatresportsTM. Theatresports mixes the thrill of impro with the energy of a sporting event, putting you right on the sidelines of side-splitting scenes as our teams go head-to-head on stage, making everything up on the spot! Performing short games like the kind you see on Whose Line is It Anyway?, this hilarious show pits some of Adelaide’s best improvisers against each other in a battle for your love, laughter and the coveted SA Theatresports Cup trophy! TheatresportsTM is a trademarked Keith Johnstone format; its licence is held by ImproNOW! in SA and we perform it with permission. |
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Impro Open Mic Night
7:30pm, 22 June, 24 August, 19 October Prompt Creative Centre, 8/205 Pirie St, Adelaide Have you ever wanted to improvise a scene on stage with no stakes, no pressure and no need to organise your own show? Impro Open Mic gives anyone who wants to try their hand at improvising the opportunity! It's an incredible chance to see what being on stage in an improv show is all about, and to perform with the talented performers from On the Fly! Your friendly MC will take your name before the start of the show, call you up in a group of other performers, and guide you through your choice of scenes, games, or even a short narrative set of scenes. If you've ever been to one of On the Fly's Open Impro Jams, this event will be very similar - except it'll be on a stage and with a bar! Don't want to be in the spotlight, but want to see something unexpectedly amazing? We'd love to have you join us - there's no pressure to perform! So what are you waiting for?! See you at Impro Open Mic Night! |
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Five Ways From [Sunday]
7:30pm, 28 - 29 September 2023 Prompt Creative Centre, 8/205 Pirie St, Adelaide In Five Ways From [Sunday], our talented cast will spin five brand new ten minute tales inspired by just one word taken from the audience. But these aren't just any tales, each ten-minute section will be made up of a single 'monoscene', where comedy, tension and characters all have time to be pushed to the limit. Don't miss your chance to join us for the premiere of this new format devised in workshops at On the Fly. |
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Improv Mixtape
7:30pm 29 July, 3:00pm 30 July, 7:30pm 5 August Prompt Creative Centre, 8/205 Pirie St, Adelaide It's time to clear the (tape) decks for an evening of musical entertainment presented by On the Fly Impro. Our performers are ready to sing their way through a spontaneous mixtape of short musical games, scenes and stories - with every line, song and scene being completely improvised! Enjoy the show from the comfort of your seat with a drink in hand at Prompt Creative Centre - this mixtape doesn't have to be listened to from a boombox held up outside your crush's window! Led by the incredible Hunter Brown, who has travelled the world as musical director with improvised musical titans Baby Wants Candy, this is a show not to be missed! |
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Maestro | Adelaide Fringe Festival
6:15pm, 17 - 21, 23 February 2023 Prompt Creative Centre, 8/205 Pirie St, Adelaide Performing hilarious, improvised games like you'd see on 'Whose Line is It Anyway?' Maestro pits Adelaide's funniest and brightest improvisers against each other in a winner-takes-all battle for glory. You choose who survives! With everything made up on the spot, Maestro is an unscripted, wild ride from start to finish. ★★★★ "The enthusiasm from all on stage is contagious... an experience not to be missed" The Advertiser 2022 ★★★★½ "Riotous laughs... all without a script" Kryztoff RAW. SOLD OUT 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2022! Maestro Impro™ is created (©) by Keith Johnstone (Keith Johnstone Workshops) registered in the USA, Canada and other countries. All Rights Reserved. Production rights are exclusively managed by International Theatresports™ Insititute: www.theatresports.com |
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Theatresports TM
7:30pm, 7, 8 & 14 December 2022 Lowlife Basement Bar (under Rhino Room), 1/131 Pirie St Adelaide It’s daring! It’s exciting! It’s everyone’s favourite impro show: TheatresportsTM. Theatresports mixes the thrill of impro with the energy of a sporting event, putting you right on the sidelines of side-splitting scenes as our teams go head-to-head on stage, making everything up on the spot! Performing short games like the kind you see on Whose Line is It Anyway?, this hilarious show pits some of Adelaide’s best improvisers against each other in a battle for your love, laughter and the coveted SA Theatresports Cup trophy! This season of TheatresportsTM was produced by ImproNOW! with support from On the Fly Impro. |
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Back In My Day | Improv at the DOB
7:30pm, 21, 22 & 29 July 2022 The Coleridge Room at The Duke of Brunswick, 207 Gilbert St, Adelaide Have you ever heard an amazing story from an older person's life and wished you could have been there? This July, join On the Fly's Level 2 performers for a trip down memory lane as they bring tales from "back in my day" to life! Come and see 100% unscripted, spontaneous fun which may or may not make sense (a bit like Grandpa's stories sometimes)! Don't miss your chance to see some live improv to warm your soul this winter. |
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Maestro | Adelaide Fringe Festival
The Sky Room at The Griffins 38 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide, 5000 6:00pm, 1 - 6 March 2022 Performing hilarious, improvised games like you'd see on 'Whose Line is It Anyway?' Maestro pits Adelaide's newest and brightest improvisers against each other in a winner-takes-all battle for glory. You choose who survives! With everything made up on the spot, Maestro is an unscripted, wild ride from start to finish. ★★★★½ "Riotous laughs... all without a script" Kryztoff RAW. SOLD OUT 2018, 2019 & 2020! Maestro Impro™ is created (©) by Keith Johnstone (Keith Johnstone Workshops) registered in the USA, Canada and other countries. All Rights Reserved. Production rights are exclusively managed by International Theatresports™ Insititute: www.theatresports.com |
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Sink or Swim
The Duke of Brunswick Hotel 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide, 5000 7:30pm, 24, 30 September & 8 October 2021 In Sink or Swim, our teams of improvisers battle it out to tell the most exciting story - but will they make it all the way to the end? That's up to you! The audience decides which story they want to see more of, while the rest sink to the cutting room floor! It's a no-holds-barred competition of wit, storytelling and genre. With each team performing in a different genre of film/TV, there's guaranteed to be something for everyone, from Teen Drama to Spy Thriller to Horror. Cheer on your favourite story, genre or improvisers and enjoy the white water rapids thrill of seeing stories come to life and die each night! Four shows only; every night is completely different! |
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Maestro | Adelaide Fringe Festival
The Rhino Room 1/131 Pirie St, Adelaide 5000 6 - 7pm, 2nd - 6th March 2021 Performing hilarious, improvised games like you'd see on 'Whose Line is It Anyway?' Maestro pits Australia's best improvisers against each other in a winner-takes-all battle for glory. You choose who survives! With everything made up on the spot, Maestro is an unscripted, wild ride from start to finish. |
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Theatresports
The Duke of Brunswick 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide, 5000 6:30-9pm Thursday 12th, 19th, and 26th November 2020 Performing short games (like the kind you see on Whose Line is It Anyway?) this is hilarious show pits some of Adelaide’s best improvisers in teams against each other. After performing each game, YOU get to decide who won! Making everything up on the spot, in a battle for your love, laughter and the coveted SA Theatresports Cup trophy, Theatresports is guaranteed entertainment. |
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5th Maestro Improvised National Games | Adelaide Fringe Festival
The Duke of Brunswick 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide, 5000 7-9pm 21-22 and 28th-29th February 2020 Performing hilarious, improvised games like you'd see on 'Whose Line is It Anyway?' Maestro pits Australia's best improvisers against each other in a winner-takes-all battle for glory. You choose who survives! With everything made up on the spot, Maestro is an unscripted, wild ride from start to finish. |
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Theatresports
The Duke of Brunswick 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide, 5000 Thursday 14, 21, 28 November 2019 Performing short games (like the kind you see on Whose Line is It Anyway?) this is hilarious show pits some of Adelaide’s best improvisers in teams against each other. They go head-to-head on-stage, making everything up on the spot, in a battle for your love, laughter and the coveted SA Theatresports Cup trophy! |
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Campfire Improv
The Duke of Brunswick 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide, 5000 Thursdays 13, 20, 27 June 2019 As winter rolls in, warm up with Campfire Improv – a brand new improv show from Adelaide’s own On The Fly Impro. Remember those frosty winter nights: telling stories around a campfire. A log shifts; sending a crackle and sparks into the dark sky. Mulled wine and marshmallows scent the air. And everyone has their favourite tale to tell. Each night at Campfire Improv, you’ll see three completely new tales brought to life by some of South Australia's newest improv stars, based entirely on your audience suggestions. From ghosts and graveyards to mysterious treasures and long lost heirlooms – huddle in close. You'll never know what you'll hear next, or what might be lurking in the shadows... Cast: Alex Bassett, Elja Parsons, Andrew Saul, Curtis Shipley, James Vinicombe, Laura-Alice Vinicombe |
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Adelaide Fringe: Maestro
The Duke of Brunswick 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide, 5000 7pm–9pm, 22–23 February, 1–2 March 2019 Performing hilarious improvised games – like you’d see on ‘Whose Line is It Anyway?’ – 'Maestro' pits Australia’s best improvisers against each other in a winner-takes-all battle for glory. With everything made up on the spot, Maestro is an unscripted wild ride from start to finish. “Riotous laughs... all without a script” ★★★★½ Kryztoff RAW. |
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Theatresports
The Duke of Brunswick 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide, 5000 7.30pm–8.30pm, Thursdays 9, 16, 23, 30 August 2018 Performing short games (like the kind you see on Whose Line is It Anyway?) this is hilarious show pits some of Adelaide’s best improvisers in teams against each other. They go head-to-head on-stage, making everything up on the spot, in a battle for your love, laughter and the coveted SA TheatresportsTM Cup trophy! Plus, our 9 August performance showcases the talents of our graduating Intro class. |
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This Improvised Life
The Duke of Brunswick 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide, 5000 7.30pm–8.30pm, Thursdays 12, 19, 26 April 2018 Everyone loves a good story! In this hilarious improvised show, performers take true stories as told by guest monologists and ride them off the rails into completely unscripted territories. There'll be truth. There'll be beauty. There'll be laughter. Join us! |
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Adelaide Fringe: Maestro
National Wine Centre, Hackney Rd & Botanic Rd, Adelaide 7pm–9pm, 23–24 February, 2–3 March 2018 Performing hilarious family-friendly improvised games -- like you'd see on Whose Line is It Anyway? -- Maestro pits Australia's best improvisers against each other in a winner-takes-all battle for glory. You choose who survives! With everything made up on the spot, Maestro is an unscripted wild ride from start to finish. "Riotous laughs... all without a script" ★★★★1/2 – Kryztoff RAW "Hilarious and always impressive... a guarantee that you will laugh out loud" – Kryztoff RAW |
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Theatresports
The Studio, Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, Thursdays 9–30 November 2017 It’s daring! It’s exciting! It’s everyone’s favourite impro show: Theatresports! Theatresports mixes the thrill of impro with the energy of a sporting event, putting you right on the sidelines of side-splitting scenes. Performing short games (like the kind you see on Whose Line is It Anyway?) this is hilarious show pits some of Adelaide’s best improvisers in teams against each other. They go head-to-head on the Bakehouse stage, making everything up on the spot, in a battle for your love, laughter and the coveted SA Theatresports Cup trophy! Fast paced, completely unscripted and full of energy – this is the show to see for all comedy lovers. |
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Keith Johnstone's Gorilla Theatre
The Studio, Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, Thursdays 17–31 August 2017 Five Directors. One Gorilla. Some Monkey Business. In this daring competition, five improvisors direct scenes to inspire, challenge and excite their fellow players. Succeed in the audience's eyes, and they win a banana! Fail, and the director will have to perform a forfeit - maybe apologise for their scene in interpretive dance, or explain what went wrong in rhyming couplets! And through all of it, a gorilla will be in on the action - and it is the prize to be won! Featuring Pouya Baniasadi, Claire Bottrall, Louise Cameron-Duxbury, Marshall Cowan, Alex Fowler, Jake Johnson, Mitre Khammash, Dane McFarlane and Jarrad Parker. PLUS Open Mic Improv on 31 August at 8.45pm Gorilla Theatre is a format devised by Keith Johnstone, and licensed to On the Fly Inc. by the International Theatresports Institute. |
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Semester 1 2017 Graduation Show
The Studio, Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, Thursday 10 August 2017 Check out nine of On the Fly's newest improvisers in 2017's first Graduation Show! After starting with us earlier this year, they're ready to strut their stuff in a show that will have you laughing like nobody's business! Will the next star of the Improv Adelaide scene be uncovered? Come and judge for yourself! It'll be an hour of improvised gold! Featuring: Tim Bates, Eleanor Brasted, Hannah Mattner, Nick Munday, Ryan O'Dea, Tamara Tipple, Martin Vale, Evan Woolford and Dylan Yee. |
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Adelaide Fringe: Maestro
LIVE on 5, Adelaide Oval, War Memorial Dr, North Adelaide 7.30pm–9.30pm, 24–25 February & 3–4 March 2017 May impro be ever in your favour! It's that time of year again when each district in Australia sends two of its best improvisers to Adelaide to compete in the National Maestro Impro Games. Our players will compete against each other in a range of family-friendly improvised challenges set by our directors until only one remains and is crowned the victor. You choose who survives! Performed in the Maestro format, this show is made up of 'Whose Line is it Anyway?" style challenges that will push our players to the limits. ★★★★1/2 "An evening of riotous laughs, all without a script" – Kryztoff RAW |
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SA Theatresports Cup
K-TUNES Lounge, 116 Grote St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, 17 November 2016 You aren't dreaming, it's that time again for the SA TheatresportsTM Cup! Presented by Impro NOW! and featuring players from On the Fly Inc, the SA TheatresportsTM Cup is everyone's favourite short-form impro show! Watch teams of performers battle it out in Whose Line is it Anyway?-style games, score them as you see fit, and cheer wildly for the winner of the coveted SA TheatresportsTM Cup trophy! |
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Crossover City
K-TUNES Lounge, 116 Grote St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, 20 October 2016 What happens when worlds collide? Come and enjoy this month's improvised comedy developed in On The Fly's Incubator workshop series. We'll smash your suggestions together to see who will work together and who just wants to take over the world!!!! Featuring: Marshall Cowan, Joshua Kapitza, Curtis Shipley, Samuel Parsonage, Dane McFarlane, Pouya Parseyan and Eden Trebilco. |
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Back and Forth
K-TUNES Lounge, 116 Grote St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, 15 September 2016 Straight from the mind of our co-artistic director, Jarrad Parker, comes this Incubator show – Back and Forth! Ever go to a party and think – how on Earth did those two get together? Where are they going to end up? Discover the answers to those questions for three couples – very different love stories. – that you help create. Featuring: Claire Bottrall, Simon Coad, Maria Humphreys, Dane McFarlane, Jarrad Parker and Curtis Shipley. |
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Semester 2 2016 Graduation Show
K-TUNES Lounge, 116 Grote St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, 18 August 2016 Come and check out On the Fly's bright and shiny new toys in the 2016 Graduation Show! After starting with us earlier this year, they're ready to strut their stuff in Ryan Millar's brilliant Mullet format! It'll be an hour of improvised gold! |
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Ryerson Studio Presents...
by Ryerson Studio Performers K-TUNES Lounge, 116 Grote St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, 21 July 2016 The Ryerson Studio performers, On the Fly's most advanced group of players, have been tinkering away in their improvisation workshop to bring you a brand new show with all the juicy goodness that improvisation can possibly deliver. It's been a secretive process full of furtive glances and meaningful winks. Come and see what they've come up with (The suspense is killing us!) |
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Apocalypse... Now?
by Marshall Cowan K-TUNES Lounge, 116 Grote St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, 16 June 2016 WARNING! The final mission to save humankind has failed. Disaster and human extinction are imminent. Don’t panic. On the Fly presents Apocalypse... Now?: an improvised comedy about everyday people coming to terms with their ultimate demise as catastrophe unfolds around them. Enjoy the countdown to the END OF DAYS. |
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Keith Johnstone's Gorilla Theatre
K-TUNES Lounge, 116 Grote St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, 19 May 2016 Do you love bananas and hilarious impro? So does On the Fly's resident gorilla, and he's hungry! Come get a ring-side seat for the battle of the year! Loved all over the world, Gorilla Theatre is a format direct from Keith Johnstone, creator of Theatresports. In this daring competition, five of our finest directors will fight tooth and nail to win bananas and ultimately the gorilla himself. You get to award good scenes with bananas and demand forfeits for the rest! Don't miss this event of jungle-proportions. Featuring Claire Bottrall, Sam Griffin, Peter Ianella, Jarrad Parker, Pouya Parseyan and Steva Stankovic. Hosted by Kirsty Wigg. |
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Galactic Trek 5
by Steve Brady K-TUNES Lounge, 116 Grote St, Adelaide 7.30pm–8.30pm, 21 April 2016 Not too many centuries from now, a brave crew of women and men are travelling the outer reaches of the galaxy. Far from home, they have no-one else to turn to in times of trouble other than themselves. This is Galactic Trek 5. |
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Adelaide Fringe: Without a Hitchcock
Live from Tandanya Theatre 8pm–9 pm, 2–4 March 2016 Hitchcock. The master of tension and suspense. In his film Rope, he pushed his audience to the edge with ten-minute takes, close quarters and high stakes. In Without a Hitchcock, his techniques are used to tell brand new, suspenseful, improvised stories. Come and see the show go off without a Hitch. We'll ratchet the tension right up until it inevitably…snaps. Featuring: Claire Bottrall, Marshall Cowan, Maddy Gibbons, Curtis Shipley and Jarrad Parker. |
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Adelaide Fringe: Maestro
Saturdays @ The German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 7pm–9pm, 13 & 20 February 2016 9pm–11pm, 27 February 2016 It's that time of year when each district in Australia sends two of its best improvisers to Adelaide to compete in the National Maestro Impro Games. Our players will compete against each other in a range of family-friendly improvised challenges set by our directors until only one remains and is crowned the victor. You choose who survives! Performed in the Maestro format, this show involves Whose Line is it Anyway? style challenges that will push our players to the limits. South Australia's best improvisers will compete against each other in the first two shows for the right to compete on the national stage on 27 February 2016. |