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A unique and intimate improvised show comprising a trio of spontaneously created one-act plays inspired by anonymous messages left on a mysterious mailbox by real members of the public.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £15 Including Booking Fee

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The home of improv comedy opens its stage to it's stand-up comedy friends. On one little condition…

They can’t prepare anything in advance!

Flop sweat is a mix of crowd work, true stories, made-up punchlines, and moments of “wait… I should write that down!” - All inspired by an audience suggestion.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £12 Including Booking Fee

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Good egg improv (Amsterdam) - some the finest improvisers in Amsterdam

Pretend Company (Essex) - spontaneous theatre of real depth and humanity. Beautiful, heartfelt and hilarious

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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A split bill improv show from Heatwave (London) and Falling and Laughing (Glasgow)

📍 The Union Theatre | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Asian AF (Asian As F***) is the premier comedy variety show in Los Angeles and New York, spotlighting both upcoming and established Asian American actors, stand-up comedians, improvisers, sketch performers, musicians, storytellers, and more.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £15 Including Booking Fee

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Impromptunes (Melbourne) combines the mischief of improvisation with the magic of musical theatre in an awe-inspiring show. Everything in this amazing show is made up on the spot - the music, the songs, the dialogue, the characters and the dancing.

My Sons (London) - My sons is improv with lots of guitars. Your suggestions are our setlist. the guitars are tuned, the vocal cords are warm, but none of the music is written until we take to the stage.

📍 The Union Theatre | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Groundhog (London) is an improv comedy group made up of four superstar improvisers from The Free Association Theatre

Squeaky Bum Time (Glasgow) - Their aim is to make you cry with laughter, our mission is to raise the bar on Scottish improv.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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With Ambika Mod

The flagship show from The Free Association, bringing together an all-star team of improvisers and mega-watt guests for a night of scintillating, salacious improv!

📍 The Union Theatre | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £12 Including Booking Fee

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SIX teams. One stage. You decide who wins. Scrimmage! is London’s underground improv fight night - a head-to-head comedy showdown where top improvisers deliver the best longform improv and the audience calls the shots.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Untold Stories - a joyous comedy improv show of laughter, games, and scenes shedding light on stories and experiences of black female identifying improvisers

Nana - began in 2022 as the house FA harold team. Since then they have become a tight group of friends performing at international festivals like Das and EIIF.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Smash Cut(Berlin) Turn down the lights and get out the popcorn! A team of Berlin’s finest filmmaking improvisers gather together to create live cinema right in front of your face!

The Descendents (London) The Descendants are experts in walking the tightrope of narrative improv. Taking inspiration from your suggestions, we create unique characters, gripping plots and thrilling relationships with a script nowhere in sight.

📍 The Union Theatre | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Cook County Social Club was named “Best Improv Group” by the Chicago Reader and a “Legendary improv team” by the Chicago Tribune. Their sold out show ran for over seven years at iO Chicago where their raucous, kinetic style of play quickly became a comedy fan favorite.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £15 Including Booking Fee

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Giant Steps (London) Improvisation meets improvisation as hilarious UK improv comedians and virtuoso jazz musicians inspire each other in real time into leaps of comedy and creativity.

A Very Capable Boy (London) Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, sometimes surreal, A Very Capable Boy blends improvisation, alternative comedy and kitchen-sink drama to create a uniquely surprising live comedic experience. 

📍 The Union Theatre | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Beer Beer Comedy (Toronto) Toronto's longest running long form improv show is bringing an all star cast to Big Scene Improv Festival! Featuring stars of canadian television and the second city.

Stupid (Liverpool) Stupid is a chaotic two-prov joyride where very clever (idiots) make very dumb comedy.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Party Crashers (Los Angeles, USA) Half the cast sets up a monoscene and midway through the rest of the cast comes crashing in with their own pre-planned bits or characters. Neither knows what’s been set up or what they’re going to do. Come join the party.

📍 The Union Theatre | SE1 OLR

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It’s a big free for all jam for festival players and audience. It’ll be a big fun late night mash up!

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

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St Doctor's Hospital (London) Welcome to St Doctor's Hospital... We'd like to save your life

For the brave frontline heroes at St Doctor's Hospital, no procedure is too convoluted, no disease is too made-up, and no relationship saga is too inappropriate for the operating theatre.

Mr & Mrs Fist (Berlin) Real-life couple, Mr and Mrs Fist, perform grounded twoprov that veers gleefully into the absurd. With the laser focus of plate-spinners, this perfectly tuned duo creates worlds populated with fascinating weirdos.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Belly Belly (Belfast) What is better than a belly laugh? A Belly Belly laugh! Join this charming Belfast quintet as they perform a loud and hearty Harold. This is their first show in England, but it won’t be their last!

Turtle Logic (Berlin) Turtle Logic brings sharp, character-driven, and unpredictable comedy to the stage. In Twin Flowers, two distinct stories unfold - separate yet intertwined -with connections that gradually reveal themselves in surprising and playful ways.

📍 The Union Theatre | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Tennessee Williams UnScript (Los Angeles)

Impro Theatre unleashes a brand-new, fully improvised Southern tragicomedy inspired by the electrifying world of Tennessee Williams. Fueled by audience suggestions, each performance becomes a fever dream of magnolias, moonlight, smoldering desire, and emotional mayhem.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £15 Including Booking Fee

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Impromptu Shakespeare (London, UK) Hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose. The Bard is back! With story and verse improvised in the moment, enjoy a riotous new Shakespeare play every time – performed by a whip smart cast.

Screamplay (London, UK) Watch an original horror short come to life on stage with one actor playing all the roles. Help create a terrifying score with a live musician.

📍 The Union Theatre | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Drunk Theatre (Los Angeles) A comedian takes 5 shots of whiskey in a row and tries to perform an improvised play with a sober cast. What could go wrong?!

Cold Cuts (London) Karlie and Daniel miss the East Coast, okay? They live in London now and they haven’t found a single decent deli, bagel or pickle. So they're going to do improv about it.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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Important Art This is the show that seeks to unearth lost cultural treasures and works of performance art, and restore them to you - the grateful public. Deleted scenes from the vaults of Martin Scorsese. Forgotten plays from Tennessee Williams. Virginia Wolf's diary? Maybe. Some Ballet? Sure, why not. Cultural curios from artists you've never heard of but definitely, probably existed? Almost certainly.

📍 The Union Theatre | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £12 Including Booking Fee

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Alan Gold returns with his hit Karaoke Party. Get up and sing, have a dance, or just watch from the audience.

It’s wild. It’s fun… and it features special ‘celebrity’ cameos.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

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Everybody, Get In Here: A big festival mash up, where teams from across the festival come together on stage. It’s the improv equivalent of the crossover episode on your favourite tv show.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £10 Including Booking Fee

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We close the festival with a bumper 90 minute All Star Armando show, featuring special guest players from across the festival and a special headline bonus set from Cook County Social Club.

📍 The Free Association | SE1 OLR

🎟️ £18 Including Booking Fee

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