- January 2025
Let the Impronauts entertain you with Quickfire: an hour and a half of improvised comedy, sure to set the house on fire! Watch as one of Cambridge's best-loved improvised comedy troupes set the ADC Bar ablaze with a variety of hilarious scenes, games, and songs all completely made up on the spot. Each Quickfire is based on audience suggestions, so no two shows are ever the same! So get ready to ignite your humour and put our improvisers in the hot-seat with your suggestions. No script. No rehearsals. No problem.
- October 2024
Somethings hatching…
Its The Egg! But what is the egg? Well thats up to you! 🥚
You can see this improvised creature feature at Corpus Playroom next week!
Come prepared with your suggestions of how our egg looks, sounds and smells, and we'll see together what hatches… 🐣
We have 4 shows and every night will be different, Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th October.
If you love gremlins, lilo and stitch, or little shop of horrors, you'll love the egg!
- October 2024
Come join the Impronauts at Quickfire!: an hour (and a bit) of improvised comedy for your delectation. Watch as Cambridge's best-loved improvised comedy troupe set the ADC Bar ablaze with a variety of hilarious scenes and games, all completely made up on the spot. Each Quickfire is based on audience suggestions, and no two shows are ever the same! So get ready to ignite your humour and put our improvisers in the hot-seat with your suggestions. No script. No rehearsals. No problem.
- June 2024
Coming soon to a Playroom near you! A new blockbuster film is on the horizon. What genre is it? What's the title? You decide!
Watch as this completely improvised movie is filmed before your eyes. And watch as it goes hilariously wrong! Between the film sets, quirky actors, stressed out directors and snarky crew all have their wacky personal dramas, leading to blockbuster disaster! Can they put aside their differences to save the film? Or will romance, rivalry and chaos drive this movie into ruin? Each night is a unique whirlwind of comedic drama, influenced by your suggestions. Get ready. Lights, camera...
- March 2024
- October 2023
- April 2023
Let the Impronauts entertain you with Quickfire: an hour of improvised comedy, sure to set the house on fire!
Every fortnight, Cambridge's best-loved improvised comedy troupe set the ADC Bar ablaze with a variety of hilarious scenes, games, and songs all completely made up on the spot. Each Quickfire is based on audience suggestions so no two shows are ever the same.
So get ready to ignite your humour and put our improvisers in the hot-seat with your suggestions.
No script. No rehearsals. No problem.
- January 2023
- November–December 2022
Under-represented Genders do Improv? 'The audience will be back every night for more' - predicted Dawn French*. Well we've only gone and spoiled you...365 nights later, Comic Sans has returned! Goofy, HILARIOUS, incredibly witty - and that's just women and non-binary people normally. Imagine them on a stage - oh wait ! Seize this wonderful opportunity to SEE them on stage in comic-improv brilliant-ness! Get ready...it's Comic Sans: Times New No-Man.
*or rather, Dawn would have, I'm sure, prophesied this had she seen it - we have last year's Tab Reviewer to thank for this quote.
- October 2022
- March 2022
Tired of all the scripted 'reality' TV?
Keeping Up With the Kimprov is your daily dose of reality TV, but actually unscripted! What minor inconvenience could lead to drama for this tight knit group? You tell us. Will it be a broken nail? A missing golf-club? A yacht that's too small to fit everyone on it? The audience decides!
Each show is a unique creation for and by its audience, and will delight you with drama, love and laughter.
This performance is recommended for audiences aged 15+
Get 25% off tickets if you buy a minimum of 2 tickets for Thursday's performance!
- November 2021
Ghost stories: isn’t it time for a new one?
Improltergeist! lets you help us create a brand new story to pass down the generations. In a mysterious world of your choosing, who is going to go bump in the night, and why?
Each show is a unique creation for and by its audience, and will delight you with adventure, ghouls and laughter.
- October 2021
- June 2021
On air they're seasoned professionals - but when the cameras stop rolling, no-one is sticking to the script!
Join the Cambridge Impronauts as they host a hilarious improvised news show dealing with drama on camera, and behind the scenes! Friendships will be tested, romance will blossom, stories will break: and most importantly YOU will be controlling the whole thing!
We will be taking prompts LIVE throughout the show, giving you the power to invent our top stories and weigh in on the unfolding workplace drama! Is our special correspondent interviewing a jelly baby? Does our weatherman have a secret past? Can our anchors navigate the messy aftermath of a joint business venture gone wrong?
Tune in to tonight's programme for all this and more in 5, 4, 3, 2...
- January–February 2020
Come and watch as a talented team from the Cambridge Impronauts create the apocalyptic movie that you wish existed !
What catastrophe will you have them thrown into tonight? The Audience decides!
Are all the Sheep now hungry for human brains?
Are all the bloodthirsty Sharks swept up into an endless Tornado?
Has Big Ben Exploded and now Time Itself No Longer Exists?
How will our stage-denizens survive? What will become of their dreams, ambitions, and relationships when society is turned upside down?
Let the drama (and comedy) unfold !
- November 2019
Your suggestions create a hilarious, dark, new story every night. Think trench coats, dark alleys, gruff voices, and a complete disregard for human life.
Will you see two rival gangs battling over possession of a kidnapped politician? A lone gunman taking on the full force of the mafia to avenge a dead lover? A corrupt policeman who will stop at nothing to find their lost kitten?
The audience will decide...
#WhimCityImprov
Access Info: https://access-cambridge.fandom.com/wiki/ADC_Theatre (Main Theatre)
- October 2019
Let the Impronauts entertain you with Quickfire: an hour of improvised comedy, sure to set the house on fire!
Every fortnight, Cambridge's best-loved improvised comedy troupe set the ADC Bar ablaze with a variety of hilarious scenes, games, and songs all completely made up on the spot. Each Quickfire is based on audience suggestions so no two shows are ever the same.
So get ready to ignite your humour and put our improvisers in the hot-seat with your suggestions.
No script. No rehearsals. No problem.
- June 2019
Can’t get enough of swamp creatures and space aliens? Vampire children and crazy conspiracy theorists? Want to see how we’d battle killer household appliances or have a secret fear of fish? Watch us bring to life a new cult classic sci fi horror movie before your very eyes!
The Cambridge Impronauts present Attack of the 50ft Improvisers! A thrilling improvised B-movie based entirely on your suggestions! Against all odds, our unlikely heroes will battle against otherworldly foes based entirely off audience suggestions. Buckle in for crazy characters, terrifying plot twists and horrendously dramatic death scenes. These movies will be shown for one night and for one night only…come along if you dare
- June 2019
Let the Impronauts entertain you with Quickfire: an hour of improvised comedy, sure to set the house on fire!
Every fortnight, Cambridge's best-loved improvised comedy troupe set the ADC Bar ablaze with a variety of hilarious scenes, games and songs all completely made up on the spot. Each Quickfire is based on audience suggestions so no two shows are ever the same.
So get ready to ignite your humour and put our improvisers in the hot-seat with your suggestions!
No script. No rehearsals. No problem.
- May 2019
Let the Impronauts entertain you with Quickfire: an hour of improvised comedy, sure to set the house on fire!
Every fortnight, Cambridge's best-loved improvised comedy troupe set the ADC Bar ablaze with a variety of hilarious scenes, games and songs all completely made up on the spot. Each Quickfire is based on audience suggestions so no two shows are ever the same.
So get ready to ignite your humour and put our improvisers in the hot-seat with your suggestions!
No script. No rehearsals. No problem.
- May 2019
Let the Impronauts entertain you with Quickfire: an hour of improvised comedy, sure to set the house on fire!
Every fortnight, Cambridge's best-loved improvised comedy troupe set the ADC Bar ablaze with a variety of hilarious scenes, games and songs all completely made up on the spot. Each Quickfire is based on audience suggestions so no two shows are ever the same.
So get ready to ignite your humour and put our improvisers in the hot-seat with your suggestions!
No script. No rehearsals. No problem.
- March 2019
Hail and hearken, gentle audience! Have you heard the ancient legends of King Arthur? Of Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table? Of their Quest for the Holy Grail? Of Lancelot and Guinevere’s forbidden love? Of Morgan Le Fay, and Merlin the wizard? Well, there are many more stories still to be told - especially the ones we haven’t made up yet…
The Cambridge Impronauts present The Once and Improvised King, an all-new cycle of Arthurian legends made up each night based on audience suggestions. An entirely improvised retinue of knights, ladies, enchanters, trusty squires, wise elders, incognito noble youths raised in obscurity, champions, fools, hermits, marvels and monsters shall embark upon a quest of the audience’s choosing. Battles shall be fought, things shall be found, and loves shall be loved. And maybe we’ll fulfil one or two ancient prophecies along the way. That happens, apparently.
- February 2019
WE’RE BACK BABY. AND BETTER THAN EVER.
After the overwhelming success of last year, Comic Sans Man 2.0 returns to grace the ADC stage with an hour of hilarity, without a script or a man in sight. Roman used to think that women couldn’t be funny. Roman doubted that comedy could be made up on the spot. Silly Roman. Now the time’s new, Roman.
- October 2018
Roll up! Roll up! For the drama of a lifetime with the travelling troupe of theatrical troglodytes the Cambridge Impronauts! Their all-new show puts you, the common-or-garden audience member, in ultimate control of the action, as you watch an improvised murder mystery story with one horrifying twist – you can decide who the killer is! The mild-mannered vicar? The eccentric billionaire? A random bystander? All in your hands. Swing the play’s drama in whichever direction you wish and let the drama unfold. Will the killer of your choice be caught by our heroes and/or bystanders? Continue their spree? Or live to terrorise another day/night/dusk/elevensies? You’ll have to come along and see, in the latest and ‘greatest’ (the author, 2018) show from Cambridge’s oldest and best-loved improvisation troupe!
- June 2018
If you are reading this then I implore you to stop now and read no further. For if you are in a chipper mood, or even just mildly content, I fear there would be nothing more dampening to your happy life than to see this show. Our story follows a group of innocent children who have just lost their parents in a terrible accident. I wish I could tell you that these orphans were relocated to a new home with a loving guardian where they lived happily ever after, but I am afraid I cannot. For if you have ever lived in the real world, as I have, you would find it a most improvable place - A phrase which here means a place where Improvisers make up very funny drama on the spot from audience suggestions. Their scenes will tell the tale of poor orphans, quirky guardians, secret organisations, hidden conspiracies and dastardly villains. Oh no, do not go and see this show... for it is sure to be A Series of Improv-able Events.
- February–March 2018
Do you miss the 90s? YES YOU DO! Come see this improvised sitcom, then. It'll be like Friends, except without how insufferable Ross was.
- February 2018
Comic Sans Men is bringing a brand-new comedy hour to the ADC stage, without a script or a man in sight. Our stellar female and non-binary performers will improvise entirely new scenes before your eyes - think sketches, monologues, and your favourite improv games - all based on your suggestions.
Roman used to think that women couldn’t be funny. Roman doubted that comedy could be made up on the spot. Silly Roman. Now the time’s new, Roman.
- November 2017
The Cambridge Impronauts are so proud to be running a BME-only improvised comedy workshop! We welcome all those who identify as BME, regardless of prior experience or year group.
Come along to learn a skill which will make you a better stage performer, and a better person in general!
- November 2017
‘To improvise or not to improvise? That is the question; whether ‘tis funnier on the stage to witness the jokes and slapstick of a comic playwright, or to take arms against such scripted drama and by ad-libbing beat them…’
In a valiant bid to Become Literary, The Cambridge Impronauts now present a series of all-new Shakespeare plays! Entirely improvised on the night based on audience suggestions, these rediscovered bardic masterpieces shall prove worthy additions to the First Folio. Shudder at an elevated and ruinous Tragedie! Roar at the farcical confusion of a fine Comedie! Gasp at the political insight of an highly accurate Historie! Tell us what a Late Romance is supposed to be!
Come join us, then! You know the play’s the thing / Wherein we’ll have to make up everything.
- November 2017
- October 2017
It's almost Halloween! That means it's time for improv! But SPOOKY improv!
- October 2017
What better way to welcome in a new academic year than with the return of Impronauts: Quickfire? The Impronauts will create stories in a variety of genres as they battle one another for your approval, and the possibility of fitting in with the cool kids :(
- August 2017
Let the Cambridge Impronauts steal your heart with a brand new romantic comedy created on the spot just for you. Based on your suggestions, we'll follow our protagonist's story through the struggles of love, be it first dates, awkward break-ups, or maybe, if they're lucky, a happily ever after. It's a love story to warm the cockles of your heart and make your belly ache from laughter, and it will only be performed once. Don't stand us up.
- May 2017
Ladies & gents, strap yourselves in because we’re in for a hell of a ride and the stakes have never been higher. Join the Cambridge Impronauts for an unforgettable interrogation as we pull back the curtain of mystery shrouding Britain’s most secret of organisations, and flush out the double agent lurking within. Of course, to a true spy master, this interrogation is merely a formality. You need look no further than the events of that morning and it’s clear as day who can’t be trusted…
Every story and secret is provided by you, the audience, to create a performance never seen before and never to be seen again. Shocking revelations will be made, stories will twist and crack under scrutiny, and the truth will be dragged, kicking and screaming into the light. Everyone has their own agenda, no-one is to be trusted, but justice will prevail before the night is out.
- May 2017
Come one, come all to another epic night of fun-filled comedy entertainment made up on the spot in front of your very eyes! Don't miss out on this critically acclaimed group of performers who will improvise sketches, skits and songs for your entertainment. An excellent way to escape the stresses of exams, or to celebrate not having any!
- April 2017
The evil Lord Tripos has laid waste to Cambridge, with only a small resistance movement left to fight back. How will they save the world? Through the one thing Lord Tripos hates - fun.
Come one come all to another epic night of fun-filled comedy entertainment made up on the spot in front of your very eyes! Don't miss out on this critically acclaimed group of performers who will improvise sketches, skits and songs for your entertainment. An excellent way to escape the stresses of exams, or to celebrate not having any!
