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December 14, 2015 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Kazablanca, the Kazimier
I’m still a little bereft thinking about Kazablanca, even though it’s taken yonks to get round to writing about. It was, after all, improv company Impropriety’s final ever show in the Kazimier venue before it shuts at the end of the year. And see the place off in style they surely did, with an evening […]
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November 11, 2015 / 0 Comments
Of all the bars in all the world… it’s Kazablanca!
City improv group Impropriety will be returning to their spiritual home of the Kazimier for the final time next month in what is sure to be a fitting tribute to the venue before it closes for good at the end of the year. It may have always been better known as a music venue but […]
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March 19, 2015 / 0 Comments
Ten reasons to see the 2015 Improvathon
It’s March, but don’t let that fool you – Improvathon weekend is upon us, a little earlier this year, but otherwise ready for business as usual… or unusual, as the case may be. The annual 33.5 hour event (or 2015 minutes), brought to you by those good folk at Impropriety, begins at 1pm on Saturday […]
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July 31, 2014 / 0 Comments
Trickster Theatre’s Much Ado About Nothing
Liverpool based theatre company Trickster has become known for its Shakespeare productions, usually opting for the high drama and intensity of the tragedies. This year, they are trying something different and their Much Ado About Nothing opens at the Kazimier next week. Led by founder and artistic director Cellan Scott and performed by a largely […]
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May 11, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Fish Head, the Kazimier
Devised by Midlands-based Reaction Theatre Makers and currently on a UK tour, Fish Head features Impropriety’s own Trev Fleming in a dramatic role as Tom, an oyster fisherman facing ruin. Unable to keep up payments on his boat due to a number of poor harvests, he goes to the beach to attempt suicide before a […]
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April 22, 2014 / 0 Comments
FishHead at the Kazimier
FishHead is a unique and atmospheric new play coming to the Kazimier next month, that takes place completely in and around a Perspex cube. Midlands-based Reaction Theatre Makers are just starting a national tour of the work, described as “a fairytale for the growing up”. FishHead is the story of Tom and Lydia – one, […]
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April 7, 2014 / 0 Comments
Gallery: Improvathon day 2
It started as a tale of life in a genteel English village. Some 2014 minutes – or roughly 33-and-a-half hours later – sweet old granny Mother Bowman had been revealed as a regenerating demon, possessing the family for 400 years; and it all ended as 1950s Umbridge came together to celebrate the first gay wedding […]
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April 6, 2014 / 0 Comments
Improvathon 2014 – in pictures
Here’s a few pics from the first few episodes of the 2014 Liverpool improvathon. Set in the 1950s in the quintessential English country village of Umbridge, it didn’t take long for things to take a rather surreal turn. The show runs for 2014 minutes, which means it started at 1pm on Saturday and finishes at […]
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March 9, 2014 / 0 Comments
Improvathon 2014: Umbridge
It’s nearly April, which means only one thing for this blog – our city’s fearless improv champions Impropriety are getting ready for the annual 33-and-a-half hour non-stop on-the-spot comedy marathon that is THE IMPROVATHON. Yes, get ready to give over your weekend on April 5 and 6 to 2014 minutes of made up comedy madness, […]
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August 28, 2013 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Othello, the Kazimier
You get to see all sorts in the Kazimier, but Shakespeare is a first – and in the hands of Trickster Theatre it is a perfect fit. The club’s layout provides a natural set up for performing in the round, and its split levels make for ready-made balconies and even an orchestra pit. Plonk Othello […]
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August 22, 2013 / 1 Comment
Trickster Theatre on Othello at the Kazimier
“Bringing together artists under a common cause, telling a good story well” is the ethos behind fringe theatre company Trickster, whose latest production Othello can be seen in the city next week. Founded by Cellan Scott 16 years ago and formerly based in Studio Salford, the company established itself in Liverpool when he moved […]
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April 8, 2013 / 1 Comment
Goin’ West: Improvathon 2013
I spent most of this weekend in a town called Borderline, in the company of such upstanding folk as Sal Oon the bar owner, Cecil Schitztoker the German bounty hunter, cattle rustler Stan Pede, sheriff Rusty Badge, and Fruit Palace proprietor Americana Applepie.
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April 1, 2013 / 1 Comment
Interview: Impropriety’s Rosie Wilkinson and Angie Waller
“It’s surreal, what goes on. I don’t hallucinate anymore. I’ve done so many now my brain knows what’s going on,” chirps Impropriety’s artistic director Rosie Wilkinson. Final preparations are now underway for the fourth annual Improvathon, taking place this weekend at the Kazimier. The 33-and-a-half hour (2013 minute) show will start on Saturday afternoon […]
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March 17, 2013 / 0 Comments
Impropriety goes west for non-stop 33 hour show
It’s that time of year again, and our chums of improvised comedy theatre group Impropriety are inviting varmints to “saddle up and come on the ride of your life through the wild wild west”, as they present their 4th Annual Liverpool Improvathon. An entirely off the hoof comedy epic that will run continuously for 2013 […]
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