by Joanna Orland This past weekend, London improv collectives Monkey Toast and The Free Association jointly hosted the first annual Haggerston Improv Festival. Dividing their shows between Haggerston’s Proud Archivist and The ARTSpace, the festival not only exposed the art of improv to a wider audience, but also raised money for charity with all proceeds […]

by Joanna Orland with Ruth Thomson, Katharine Fry & Ella Jean Foreword Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a huge undertaking.  The longer you are there, the less meaning time has to your existence.  You fully immerse yourself in a summer camp for the arts, a playground filled with high school dramas, tears, broken dreams and shattered […]

Folie à Deux by Ruth Thomson Folie à Deux are the winning combination of Charlotte Gittins and Andrew Hunter Murray from the acclaimed group Austentatious who improvise an entire show in the style of Jane Austen based on a single word from the audience. In this context, hastily created to fill a vacant fringe slot […]