The Impro Cave Schedule

Here’s the full schedule (so far) for the 2009 season of The Impro Cave.

June 21, 7.30pm

Mega Maestro™ (from Canada)
Improvisors throw themselves at your mercy! You, the audience, award the points that will determine who stays in the competition and who is eliminated.

Creator: Keith Johnstone
Director: Patti, Simon
Cast: Vic, Jamie, Rik, Kevin, Nussey, Cam, Mike, Xavier, Karl, Sean, Anna, Lliam
Musician: Gordon Dorin

June 28, 7.30pm

1st Half: Superscene (from Berlin)
Directors fight to have their story be the story that reaches completion. The audience decides which stories stay and which are eliminated.

Director: Patti Stiles
Cast: Tim, Rama, Kevin, Patti, Xavier
Musician: Gep Blake

2nd Half: Law & Impro (Premiere)
Law & Order meets Thank God You’re Here. Drawing on audience suggestions, the cast of improvisors creates a live court case right in front of your very eyes. You, the audience, decide who goes free and who gets the chair.

Director/Creator: Mark Gambino
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gep Blake

July 5, 7.30pm

1st Half: How ’Bout This
Improvisers pitch concepts for scenes and the audience chooses who flies and who falls. You’ve never seen improvisors work so hard.

Director: Jamie Robertson
Creator: Jason Geary
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gordon Dorin

2nd Half: The Pitch (Premiere)
This is your moment – your big chance. The industry’s biggest producers are here to hear your pitch. You’re in luck – your pitch isn’t making them retch violently. But they do have many, many changes they’d like to make. The Pitch. Your movies … our way.

Director / Creator: Karl McConnell
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gordon Dorin

July 12, 7.30pm

The Road Not Taken (from Vienna, Austria)
Imagine if one single choice you have made over the course of your lifetime turned out differently. Where would you be now? The road not taken is an exploration of this idea through the art of improvisation.

Director: Jason Geary
Creator: English Lovers Theatre (Austria)
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gordon Dorin

July 19, 7.30pm

1st Half: More or Less (from Calgary, Canada)
Watch Impro Melbourne explore the darker side of love stories with vampires, psychics, werewolves & tough talking broads.

Director: Anna Renzenbrink
Creator: Loose Moose Theatre Company (Canada)
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gordon Dorin

2nd Half: Quotable Women (Premiere)
Using quotes from notable women throughout history as inspiration, this all-female cast will take you on a journey from concubine to feminist, from damsel in distress to matriarchal working woman.

Director / Creator: Patti Stiles
Cast: Patti, Rama, Jenny, Anna, Leah, Emilie, Sarah, Vic, Kat, and Nussey
Musician: Gordon Dorin

July 26, 7.30pm

Mega Maestro™ (from Canada)
Improvisors throw themselves at your mercy! You, the audience, award the points that will determine who stays in the competition and who is eliminated.

Creator: Keith Johnstone
Directors: TBC
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gep Blake

August 2, 7.30pm

1st Half: Double Play (from San Francisco, USA)
Take two differing genres and asks the improvisors to create two completely different stories, at the same time, jumping from one story to another. Double the genre, double the story and double the fun – double play.

Director: Jenny Lovell
Creator: BATS (USA)
Cast: TBC

2nd Half: Gypsy Prov (Premiere)
One Gypsy band – One band of Gypsies. Where have they been? Where are they going? Cross their palms with sliver … they’ll tell a tale or two…

Director / Creator: Rama Nicholas
Cast: TBC

August 9, 7.30pm

1st Half: Three Part Harmony (Premiere)

Director / Creator: Rik Brown
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gordon Dorin

2nd Half: The League of Extraordinary Storytellers (Premiere)
On this night, six of history’s great authors are summoned. To combine. To unite. To retell the lost parable and set the language of the cosmos straight. An epic that simply-must-be!

Director / Creator: Tim Redmond
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gordon Dorin

August 16, 7.30pm

1st Half: Fortune
Pondering your destiny? Kismet anxiety? Fear not! Place your fortune in the plucky hands of the Impro Melbourne oracles and let us sing your future to life.

Director / Creator: Tim Redmond
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gordon Dorin

2nd Half: In A New Light (Premiere)
A New Light explores the different relationships everyone has, the diverse and sometimes contradictory roles we play, and the unexpected situations that arise when those roles collide.

Director / Creator: Sean Fabri
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gordon Dorin

August 23, 7.30pm

1st Half: The Awesomest Audience Show Ever (Premiere)
The most awesome audience will attend this show ever. Instead of making our show from nothing we will be making the show entirely from the audience. The audience will be a part of every scene on the night and used in ways they may have never been used on stage before.

Director / Creator: Jamie Robertson
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gep Blake

2nd Half: Character Hat (Premiere)
Watch players pull a character out of a hat and create an amazing scene. Because they usually pull it from somewhere else.

Director / Creator: Xavier Michelides
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gep Blake

August 30, 7.30pm

Mega Maestro™ (from Canada)
Improvisors throw themselves on your mercy! You, the audience, award the points that will determine who stays in the competition and who is eliminated.

Creator: Keith Johnstone
Directors: TBC
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gordon Dorin

2nd Half: Character Hat (Premiere)
Watch players pull a character out of a hat and create an amazing scene. Because they usually pull it from somewhere else.

Director / Creator: Xavier Michelides
Cast: TBC
Musician: Gep Blake