Grand Theft Impro with guest stars Ruth Bratt & Briony Redman

The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, London
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This event ended on Thursday 26th of May 2016
Admission
£5.50.
Venue Information
The Wheatsheaf
Rathbone Place, W1T 1JB
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Tottenham Court Road 0.18 miles

Join the UK's top comedy improvisers for an evening of sketches and songs, all made up on the spot from audience suggestions.
"Simply Marvellous" TimeOut Recommended show

Impro veterans Phil Whelans, Dylan Emery and Charlotte Gittins gather every week for a one of the funniest short-form impro shows in the capital.

Every week they have high-profile guests from the UK and around the world - always worth dropping in!

Previous guests include: Phill Jupitus, Marcus Brigstocke, Josie Lawrence, Lee Simpson, Mike McShane, Steve Frost, Pippa Evans and Ruth Bratt.

"Simply Marvellous" TimeOut Recommended show
"A unique brand of extreme theatre, GTI are always entertaining" Daily Mirror
"GTI are at the forefront of the revival of impro in the UK" The Guardian
"The guys are great, enthusiastic, musical and most importantly funny." Remote Goat

Cast Biogs

Dylan Emery: co-founder of The Showstoppers, the Olivier-winning improvised comedy musical which has been selling out at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for 8 years, had its own BBC Radio 4 series and recently had a run in London's West End. He's also a member of The School of Night, the hard bardics literary impro troupe founded by Ken Campbell, and is half of Ghost Couple, a double act with Ruth Bratt.

Charlotte Gittins: Charlotte is a member of the smash hit impro show Austentatious, a Monkey Toast player and has a two-person impro show, Folie á Deux, with QI elf, Andrew Murray. She is an in-demand researcher/producer for T.V. documentaries and regularly takes part in the Annual London 50-hr Improvathon.

Phil Whelans - writer and performer of his own Radio 4 sitcom, My First Planet, founder member of Pros from Dover - with whom he did two series of Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage. Phil has worked with everyone from Robin Williams to Chris Morris, Al Gore to Brian Conley, Joan Rivers to Basil Brush. Phil has been in It's Kevin, Brasseye, Preston Front and a number of unsuccessful radio and TV impro pilots. He has appeared in Showstopper! the Improvised Musical and is a Monkey Toast player.

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