Trailer time! March 3rd & 4th it’s The Liverpool Improvathon!

Here it is!  A preview of things not to come at The 2012 Liverpool Improvathon!

Directed by the marvelous Doctor Captain Lee Isserow

It’s the 2012 Liverpool Improvathon poster!

Tickets available NOW from The Kazimier!

Improvathon, masterclass, shows and workshops… we spoil you something rotten!

Well, we can honestly say that if you thought Impropriety were busy before, you ain’t see nothing yet.

Following on from our season launch last month & our performance and ‘Impropriety Kids’ workshop at Threshold Festival we have a jam packed fortnight ahead!

AND YOU CAN COME TO ALL OF IT!!

Thursday 1st March @ Mello Mello, 6.30pm – 9.30pm. £10 - Improvisation Master Class – Impropriety is very excited to be able to offer you an Improvisation Masterclass with special guest teachers from DIE Nasty, Canada.

Whilst in Liverpool to perform in Impropriety’s 2012 Improvathon, Dana Andersen, Donovan Workun and Kory Matthewson, all members of the renowned DIE Nasty Improv group from Edmonton, Alberta, will be running this one off masterclass workshop. More details here.

This is a unique opportunity to learn from some of the finest improvisers in the world whilst they are here in Liverpool.

Places must be booked in advance. Please email improprietyliverpool@gmail.com to ensure you get a place. (PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is only suitable for people who already have some improv experience).

and then… DRUM ROLL

Saturday & Sunday 3rd & 4th March 1pm Sat – 10.30pm Sun @ The Kazimier – “Back To The Studio” – The 3rd Annual Liverpool Improvathon. Episodes every 2 hours from 1pm – £5 on the door. Weekend Pass – £25 (early bird online price £20 – available here. Children’s Hour (Sunday 11am – 1pm) – Children come FREE!

“Welcome viewers! For one weekend only, Impropriety becomes ImproprieTV- the newest thing in live broadcasting! Its live TV, coming to you, er… live! See the cut and thrust of modern media as it happens. From script to screen – without a script! Join us at our studio in the Kazimier for this ground-breaking continuous broadcast - The Revolution Will Be Improvised!”

And don’t forget our regular improvised fun…

Wednesday 22nd Feb @ Mello Mello (7-9pm) – Open public improvisation workshop. For £2 you can come & learn/share/play improvisation games with us. All abilities welcome.

Thursday 23rd Feb @ Mello Mello (8pm) - Impropriety Performs!! Scenes, songs & suchlike never seen before & never to be seen again….and all for FREE (donations very welcome!)

We warned you it was jam packed. See you there!

It’s nearly Improvathon time…

Firstly, a huge thank you to each and every one of you that came to, or contributed to our 2012 Season Launch and Fundraiser. The night was a sterling success and we hope you had as much fun as we did. We really and truly can’t do what we do without you. So thanks! You’re all the best. Yes, you too. And you. And even you, don’t think we can’t see you hiding at the back there.

Secondly, I have been desperate to write this blog for a few weeks now, but for various reasons, I’ve had to hold off. For those of you who were at the Season Launch, you’ll have heard our super exciting announcement about the upcoming Improvathon, but for those of you who weren’t, here goes…

From 1pm on Saturday 3^rd March until 10:32pm on Sunday 4^th March, we will be holding our third annual Improvathon at The Kazimier. Now, I know you’re thinking this isn’t news. We’ve been talking about this for a while now, but stick with me, it gets better. Just last night, we decided on a theme. For 33 and a half hours this year we shall be inhabiting the world of a TV Station and all the wonderous possibilities and characters that that suggests.

Weekend Passes are on sale NOW for the bargain price of £20 (usually £25) for a limited time only right now from here.

And now for the really exciting bit. As well as the many fabulous improvisers from around the country that shall be coming to play with us, this year we will be joined by 3 super awesome Canadians from DIE-Nasty. Now, for those of you who don’t know, DIE-Nasty is the company that created this crazy format that we call Improvathon (over there, its a Soap-a-thon) and have been doing them for the last 20 years. So this is a pretty big deal for us. The 3 Canadians, Dana Andersen, Kory Matthewson and Donovan Workun, are all regular cast members of DIE-Nasty, both the Soapathons and their long running weekly live Soap Opera, and have also performed with many Canadian Improv institutions including Second City, Rapid Fire and Atomic Improv to name but a few. As you can imagine, we’re so very excited to have them playing here in Liverpool.

So there you go. Exciting times here at Impropriety Towers. We’ll let you know more details over the next few weeks, but for now, get your tickets and come and have a weekend of sleep deprived fun with us.

Until next time…

Rosie

Upcoming shows!

More details to follow…

6th Feb – Mello Mello, corner of Slater/Parr Street
The Comedy Knight
FREE!

11th Feb – Threshold Festival
Details to follow

23rd Feb – Mello Mello
Impropriety @ Mello
Donations welcome

3rd-4th Mar – The Kazimier
The 2012 Liverpool Improvathon – 33.5 straight hours of improvised COMEDY
£5 an episode / £25 weekend pass

2012 SEASON LAUNCH – 26TH JANUARY @ THE KAZIMIER – 7.30pm

The New Season Launch Spectacular that we are planning for the 26^th of January at The Kazimier … IT IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!!! We are still going to be a little coy on the details but there will be wonderful Acts, Comedians, Music, Prizes, Competitions, the usual Impropriety Stupidities  and BINGO!!!!! Yes you read that right B I N G O ! ! ! ! But with a special twist that we are going to let you know about a little closer to the date!

Tickets are £5 on the door or you can buy them online on the Kazimier website.  Get them while they’re hot!!!!!

This is deffo one to put in your diary as our last Season Launch was a dazzling affair with the Kazimier packed to the gunnels and chock full of happy audients!  Be one of them this time around!

More info on FACEBOOK!

New Year, New News!

Happy New Year Everyone!

Such a lot of exciting things going to happen with Impropriety at the moment, we are very excited to tell you about all of them so the Blog updates will be coming thick and fast telling you much more about the New Season Launch Spectacular, The Soap Opera, and The Improvathon but what we are going to shout about just now is the return of The Improv Jam Workshops!

If you have been in Mello-Mello lately you will have no doubt seen the Keep Calm and Make Stuff Up posters advertising the return of the Jam workshops… there is a very important change this year, we have gone back to Wednesday night for the workshops, this is to let us pack the other goodies that we are going to offer in to the weeks ahead.

Like last year the workshops will be fortnightly and headed up by various members of the Impropriety Cast and will be a fun exploration of improvisation games and techniques to help release your inner joker.

The first Jam Workshop will be on  11^th of January at Mello Mello starting at 7pm (as always get there early and have a chat and a cup of something nice from the bar. (Facebook Event Here!)

Later for now…

Ian xxx

Happy holidays!

Happy Holidays from Impropriety Towers!!!!!

We’ve got lots of wonderful things planned for the New Year but in the tradition of the Festive season we are not going to let you open those particular presents yet… stop shaking the boxes! Yes, Yes… that one does sound like an Improvathon… but it might not be… It could be socks! And yes that other one is the right shape for a Soap Opera… but isn’t it more likely to be a tin of Quality Street? No… that one there is a box of smellies from Aunty Jean… what do you mean she promised you a Launch Event and some wonderful new Workshops… well she lies that woman… and drinks far too much sherry.. now come away from that tree! Now or else there’ll be no Mulled pies and Minced Wine for you… and I mean it!!!

So no cats let out of Santa’s bag there then!… more details to follow, but until then the lovely folks at Impropriety Towers would like to thank you for being part of our wonderful family and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year.

Happy Christmas to one and all… and as Tiny Tim observed “God bless us every one!”

New Faces 0f 2011

Hello there everyone!

Just a little note from Impropriety Towers to let you know what’s happening at the moment… If you have been to any of our recent shows you will have noticed a few new people treading the boards in the name of Impropriety, some of whom you may know from other improv groups and some who are new to the improv scene. What’s going on you may ask?

Well for one thing, here at Impropriety we are committed to not only promoting and using established performers but also bringing talented new faces to the improv stage and so some

wonderful people that we have discovered through our workshops are making their way to the stage for us. It’s always exciting to let loose new talent on our audiences and all of the unhinged individuals we have found are just brilliant additions to our team.

The other reason that new people new to Impropriety are popping up in our shows is that we are also very dedicated to working closely with other improv groups both in the area and further afield. To this end we are delighted to announce that we are going to be working very closely with the brilliant folks at ‘Sticky Floor’. You will see people from Impropriety in their shows and people from Sticky Floor in ours. It will be like an unholy loved-up comedy remake of the human centipede right in front of your very eyes (there’s a thought for you)!

It’s wonderful to be working so closely with such a quality improv group… stay tuned for more news from Impropriety Towers very soon,

Ian xxx.

Autumn News

As we head towards Autumn we though it would good to let you know what has been happening.

We have confirmed our monthly gigs which will be happening at Blundell Street. Please come along to those and join the mailing for details of offers on admission.

Over the summer, we have been getting to know the folks at Sticky Floor and have performed with the awesome Scriv and Mark – big shout out to them. We seen the welcome return of Dannielle Malone and Keddy Sutton who have performed with us again after a little break. Dannielle can be seen here can be seen with Ed Croft talking about representing Impropriety at “Come and Have a Go If You Think You’re Bard Enough”. This was a unique performance of “Richard III”  starring 23 Liverpool theatre/performance companies, who each took on a scene of the play, to perform in their own style. As an improv troupe, Impropriety played their part in the form of a game, which was a cross between our regular games ‘Pick Up Line’ and ‘Actors Nightmare’. One performer had a script, one had a script that had been shredded and scattered across the stage and the third had to completely make up their lines.

Just returned from Canada are honeymooners Trev Fleming and Angie Waller, with our own Artistic Director, Rosie Wilkinson. We’re delighted to have them back for two main reasons:

1) Performing in 50 hour soap-a-thons can be bad for your health but that’s exactly what they were doing when they took part in Die Nasty’s 19^th annual Soap-A-Thon

2) Rosie in particular had such a good time that she has been making worrying noises about living there permanently

You can check out Trev and Ange being all interviewee and performery, (and struggling with a costume scarf) here on Canadian TV, where they were promoting the show.

Check us out live this Autumn and watch this space for more details of when/where you can….