Liverpool Improvisation Festival 2023

21 Apr 2023 - 22 Apr 2023

Unity Theatre

We look forward to welcoming you to the first edition of the Liverpool Improvisation Festival – a new two-day festival supported and hosted by Unity. The festival opens on Friday the 21^st of April (3pm) and runs through till late on Saturday the 22^nd of April (10pm).

We have a packed and exciting programme of work from artists and companies from across the North-West. There are 12 shows across the two days, all the work is improvised and draws upon numerous art forms including clown, comedy, fooling, music, puppetry, storytelling, and theatre. There are also four workshops in which participants can learn and expand their knowledge of improvisation.

Schedule			Friday 21st April

Show Time	Venue	Company	Show
3pm	Unity 2	The Insiders	The Fly
4pm	Unity 2	Playing Dead Theatre	Living. Dying. Dead
5pm	Unity 2	Liverpool Comedy Improv	The Mixer
6:15pm	Unity 2	Trev Fleming	Trev Fleming, 42
7:30pm	Unity 1	CSzUK	Comedy Sportz
9pm	Unity 1	Casino Improv	The Invocation

Schedule			Saturday 22nd April

Time	Venue	Workshop Leaders	Workshop
10am-12pm	LJMU	Aisling Leyne and Mark Smith	Playing with Puppets
10am-12pm	LJMU	Joanne Tremarco	What is a Fool?
12-2pm	LJMU	Jess Napthine-Hodgkinson	Play at your own Speed
12-2pm	LJMU	Emma Bird	You, Me and the World

		Company	Show
2:15pm	Unity 1	Rubbish Shakespeare Company & Wing It Impro	The Incomplete Works of Shakespeare
3:45pm	Unity 2	Glossop Improv	Glossop
4:45pm	Unity 2	Wing it Impro	Talk to the Hand
6pm	Unity 1	Atom Improv	Regular Job
7:30pm	Unity 1	Fool size	Women who W*nk
9pm	Unity 1	Casino improv	The Invocation