The Free Association presents an all star improv comedy charity weekender, in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. The acts include the first live outing of Channel 5 show Borderline. The weekender, hosted by London’s leading improv theatre and school The Free Association, will be held November 26th-27th at The Free Association Theatre in Haggerston. […]

The Free Association presents an all star improv comedy charity weekender, in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital.  The acts include the first live outing of Channel 5 show Borderline. The weekender, hosted by London’s leading improv theatre and school The Free Association, will be held November 26th-27th at The Free Association Theatre in Haggerston. […]

Udderbelly Festival April 7th – July 17th, 2016 London Wonderground May 5th – September 25th, 2016 Part of Southbank Centre’s Summer Season Underbelly and Southbank Centre have announced the return of Udderbelly Festival and London Wonderground on London’s South Bank through the summer of 2016. Among the fantastic performances added to this year’s programme are Nina […]

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 […]

Photo by Pauline Eyre by Haresh Patel The Big Purple Cow is back on her back, legs in the air! It’s now an established marker of the arrival of summer days when the Southbank cultural quarter has her slightly less dignified, more raucous inflatable sister park herself on the lawn next to the more sensible […]

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 […]

Left to right: Andrew Hunter Murray, Joseph Morpurgo, Rachel Parris, Cariad Lloyd, Amy Cooke-Hodgson, Graham Dickson & Charlotte Gittins Austentatious are one of London’s most talked about improv shows.  The cast comprising of Andrew Hunter Murray, Joseph Morpurgo, Rachel Parris, Cariad Lloyd, Amy Cooke-Hodgson, Graham Dickson and Charlotte Gittins are renowned for improvising hour-long comedy […]

Austentatious Udderbelly Festival, Southbank July 4th, 2014 by Joanna Orland One of the most prominent of London improv shows, Austentatious took the stage last night at Southbank’s Udderbelly Festival.  Playing to a sold out crowd within the confines of a giant upside down purple cow, the cast comprised of Graham Dickson, Cariad Lloyd, Amy Cooke-Hodgson, […]

by Joanna Orland If anyone else were to hear voices in their head, you would likely express concern.  But with actor, improviser and character comedian Cariad Lloyd, these voices are more likely to lead to excellent performances rather than something sinister.  Cariad has taken her characters from her head to the page, the page to […]

Udderbelly Festival – April 10th to July 13th London Wonderground – May 7th to September 28th Festival of Love – May 30th to September 7th In its sixth year, Udderbelly Festival continues to bring the best of comedy, cabaret and circus to London’s Southbank Centre. On April 10th, Udderbelly Festival 2014 kicked off in style […]