- November 2012
Are you free? Do you let your thoughts run wild with riotous suggestions and ideas; do you mesh with others and build something astonishing every night? We do. We'd like to build something with you - a revolution of comic proportions, all 100% improvised on the spot - a story of liberté, egalité and incongruité!
Who is revolting? Against whom? Why? Who will win? We don't know - but the journey to find out promises to be the theatrical event of the Cambridge year, with laughter, music and song. Come, laugh with us.
£3 entry/£2 for King's students, tickets on door at King's Bunker (King's College). 8pm-9pm each night.
Praise for the Cambridge Impronauts: "Fuel: Imagination. Destination: Anywhere." (Broadway Baby, 2012)
"I am confident that the cast of this show will soon be seeing stars." (Edfringe Review, 2012)
The Cambridge Impronauts are the University of Cambridge's best-loved improv troupe. Well-known in years past as Improvised Comedy Ents (ICE), we have been adding some juice to Cambridge's comedy scene since 2003, running the gamut from Whose Line style gameshows to complete hour-long improvised narratives. No scripts? No rehearsals? No problem!
- August 2010
An improvised gangster story similar but not identical to the show of this name performed at the ADC in Lent 2010. A fully improvised story is fashioned from audience suggestions by a team of improvisers.
- January 2010
Let us make you an offer you can’t refuse; a fast-paced story based entirely on your input that will leave you on the edge of your seat and reaching for your suit. Come and play director to the mafia as they wreak havoc in the rowdy town of . Join our seasoned improvisers for a night of gangs, guns and gripping action!
Want to see an arachnophobic mob boss with an affinity for gardening searching for his stolen stash of mattresses? Can Big Al escape his wombat wielding wife? Will Detective Hank Harper be able to infiltrate The Family? And who is the mysterious stranger who calls himself Don Mysterious Stranger?! Improvised Comedy Ents presents the gangster story Hollywood doesn’t dare to tell. But who will come out on top? You decide.
- November 2009
- May 2009
For too long has war raged between the arts and the sciences. Friendships have been ruined, relationships broken down, and families torn in two - but do not fear! Improvised Comedy Ents are here to resolve it once and for all. Two teams of comedians will improvise their socks off for their subjects (and what's more you will get to tell them how they do it).
Ever been told you are robotically boring or wistfully wordy? Do you often have the hemisphere of your brain you predominantly use insulted? Wondered who would win in a fight between Shakespeare and Newton? Bring along your best insults of articulately abstract artits or syntactically stunted scientists and watch us weave them into a game show. It's quill and quark, particles and passion, pride and protons, science and sensibility in this final battle of the University subject war.
No scripts? No rehearsals? No problems!
- January 2009
- December 2008
No scripts! No rehearsals! No Quentin Tarantino!
Sit back and relax as Improvised Comedy Ents bring you a series of comedic tales from a world that seems strangely similar, and yet strangely different from our own.
You decide what stories get told as our team of talented performers take your suggestions and weave them together into a tangled web of disgruntled employees, vicious criminals and mysteriously knowledgeable monks. Just what is the secret that lurks at Joe's farm? What's in the briefcase that everyone's dying to get hold of? And how will they all fit together?
You decide.
- November 2008
For one night only watch improvisers face each other in the ultimate battle of the sexes. With wit as their only weapon the single-sex armies will fight to the metaphorical death for glory, honour and victory in the greatest battle the world has ever known.
Witness your suggestions transformed into laughs as our improvisers clash man on woman, woman on man, fighting for your vote! Will the men win the showdown as well as the bread? Or will the women reign victorious thanks to a heavy bout of man flu?
Improvised Comedy Ents presents a series of fast paced games and sketches made up on the spot based entirely on suggestions from the audience. Do you want to see a sketch about a golf-ball that eats mustard, or a baker who can only bake verbs? Then come along and help mould the action!
- August 2008
Do you love the feeling you get when you've guessed the murderer correctly? With this show, you're guaranteed that feeling every time! Using suggestions from the audience, and a randomly selected period location, our experienced cast will spin you a dastardly tale of death and debauchery in which you decide who was killed, with what, and most importantly, by whom.
- March 2008
Sit down and relax as ICE bring you a series of comedic tales from a world that seems strangely similar, and yet strangely different from our own. Just what is the secret that lurks at Joe's farm? What's in the briefcase that everyone's dying to get hold of? And which stories are actually parts of a greater whole, entangled with each other as the plot threads weave through the night? You decide!
- November 2007
Ooh err matron!
Fresh from the Edinburgh fringe, ICE are back to the ADC bringing you a fully improvised farce. All the action is under your control as expert performers spontaneously create drama, passion, intrigue and romance in front of your very eyes. Well, maybe a bit. Mostly it's just hilarious fast-paced comedy!
Who murders whom? Who falls in love with whom? What could possibly come between the happy couple? Will Lord Fotheringale ever live down the embarrassing wombat incident of last night's dinner party? You get to choose!
Jeeves and Wooster meets Carry On meets AN ADDITIONAL THIRD CONTRASTING THING! The play will be lovingly created on the spot for you by our expert improvisers, so there is only one chance to see this unique and perfect creation. It has never been seen before and will never been seen again! No Scripts, no Rehearsals, no Kenneth Williams!
- November 2007
Smash! Into a thousand pieces shatters the mind of the Disciple as he seeks knowledge from the Sage of Ages. Catapulted through fast-paced comedy sketches in this high-octane revue, prepared for you by Triple Point Comedy (fresh from their Edinburgh Fringe performance), the Disciple has no choice but to learn and laugh with pain and joy.
Marvel as Triple Point's experienced alternative comedians soar through darkly comic scenes and leave you giggling for more.
Meet the man who designs your nightmares. Taste the sweet tears of laughter of those around you. Prepare for wisdom.
- August 2007
The year is the future, but celebrity Richard O'Dave has fallen upon hard times following public scandal. In a desperate bid to salvage his career he resurrects a gameshow from his sordid past - but it's the first episode, and the contestants are not as random as they seem…
Combining suggestions from the audience with inspiration from a certain cult Channel 4 gameshow, Triple Point Comedy will weave together fully improvised narrative and fast-moving games into an innovative and unique experience for all the family.
Under the watchful eye of Richard O' Dave, the contestants will face a multitude of challenges - physical, mental, skill or mystery - in a race for the ultimate prize: a golden token from the Emerald Dome. But who are these contestants? What sequence of unlikely events brought them together? And what really awaits them inside the so-called Emerald Dome? All will be revealed as, during breaks in filming, the contestants' stories are laid bare.
Join Triple Point Comedy for an hour of unscripted hilarity as the contestants battle their way through... The Emerald Maze.
- May 2007
Crash! Meet ICE, Cambridge's most popular improvised comedy group, as they liven up a weary Sunday evening with an hour of explosive comedy in the ADC bar.
In a lethal cocktail of classic games, new games and mysterious narratives - all based on suggestions by you, the audience, they will get to know you in ways you cannot possibly imagine.
- May 2007
Join Cambridge's most popular improvisational talent as they once again take the ADC stage by storm. Are you tired? Stressed? Unable to understand the deconstructive argumentation section on Lenin? Then Revise This! as ICE lead you through a fast-paced night of unprepared comedy sketches, songs and narratives which will enlighten you in ways you can't understand but pretended you did in supervisions all term.
- February–March 2007
The year is the future, and celebrity Richard O'Dave has fallen upon hard times following public scandal. In a desperate bid to salvage his career he resurrects a gameshow from his childhood - but it's the first episode, and the contestants are not as random as they seem ...
Join Cambridge's renowned improvised comedy society, ICE, as they construct and perform a gameshow of epic proportions – entirely from your suggestions. Watch the hapless contestants as they battle their way through a series of improvised games to reach the mysterious Crystal Hexagon. And discover exactly what sequence of bizarre coincidences brought each one of them to: The ICE-Crystal Maze.
- January 2007
Get ready...to Improvise That! Following last term's Improvise This! Improvised Comedy Ents are back to take the ADC by storm once more on the 23rd of January, at 11.00pm next Tuesday. Described by TCS as 'a force to be reckoned with' and Varsity as 'Gut-wrenchingly funny', ICE combine audience participation and genuine humour with a reckless disregard for scripts, rehearsals and other nonsense like that.
Cambridge's renowned improvised comedy society, ICE, are ready and eager to bring you the best in hard-hitting, script-spurning, expectation-defying and logic-twisting comedy at the ADC: An hour of fast-paced improvised games, directed entirely by audience suggestion.
- November–December 2006
Christmas! The Queen's Speech and family-friendly films -- wasn't TV much better this time last year? Improvised Comedy Ents, Cambridge University's improv society, will reverse the trend for once. By blending your favourite Christmas TV memories with spontaneous comic sketches and games -- all inspired by the audience -- ICE will make this Christmas one to remember. Described by TCS as "the future faces of Britain's comedy elite", ICE has built up a reputation for fast-paced, hilarious improvised comedy. From Bond films to the Queen's Speech, all you need this Christmas is ICE.
- October 2006
Join Improvised Comedy Ents for a one-night only show packed full of your favourite improv games, sketches and jokes. See fresh talent and old hands join forces to bring you a hilarious evening's entertainment.
- October 2006
For those of you disillusioned by the lack of pirates, crones, and snail-insurance salesmen in your first lectures, Improvised Comedy Ents presents 'Out of the Box 2'. Expect hilarity. Expect confusion. Expect deeply unlikely characters in frankly implausible plots. Expect an hour of ridiculous, fast-paced comedy from Cambridge's critically acclaimed improv troupe, entirely driven by your suggestions - and those drawn from the mysterious BOX.
The entrance fee is a mere £1, with proceeds going to charity - though in the true spirit of Improv we've neglected to choose which one to donate it to, and so will be relying on our audience to come up with a worthy cause.
- June 2006
No scripts. No rehearsals. No Michael Aspel. Imagine your whole life flashing before you. Now rewind, and imagine it again, only improvised on the spot by Cambridge's freshest comedy talent. Taking inspiration from members of the audience, Improvised Comedy Ents, described by TCS as "the future faces of Britain's comedy elite", will re-imagine the life of one character through the medium of television. Prepare to relive your childhood TV nostalgia and experience a trip through pop-culture like you've never seen before. We may not have Michael Aspel, but for one lucky person, This Is Your ICE.
- June 2006
NO SCRIPTS. NO REHEARSALS. NO DODGY SEQUELS. Join Improvised Comedy Ents for a fast-paced, unpredictable and riotous evening of improvised sketches. Everything is based on suggestions from you, the audience, and made up on the spot! A hilarous night out and the perfect way to forget the horrors of exams. NO NONSENSE - JUST COMEDY.
- March 2006
Come see some of Cambridge's hottest new comedy talent in a one-night only festival of stand-up and sketches. Tim Smith-Laing along with Improvised Comedy Ents, Ollie Bolland, Rob Severn and Jenny Skene will all perform for your enjoyment. All this for a scant £2!
- March 2006
Fresh from the successes of "Whose ICE Was It Anyhow?" and "Lights, Camera, Improv!", Improvised Comedy Ents present another hour of fast-paced games and sketches, made up before your very eyes. Come along and see your suggestions come to life as they are interpreted by the University's premier improv group.
- February 2006
Improvised Comedy Ents, the university's premier improv group, return for two more of their fast-paced, fully improvised and somewhat inexplicable shows.
On 24 January, ICE present Whose Ice was it Anyhow?, in which the highly trained ICE team will present a packed hour of sketches and games driven by audience suggestions. Then on 21 February, come and see Lights, Camera, Improv!, in which the ICE team will improvise a full hour-long disaster movie right in front of your very eyes!
'ICE may not have had a script, a plan or even a clue, but they definitely had one thing on their side - lots and ltos of laughter.' - TCS
- January 2006
Improvised Comedy Ents, the university's premier improv group, return for two more of their fast-paced, fully improvised and somewhat inexplicable shows.
On 24 January, ICE present Whose Ice was it Anyhow?, in which the highly trained ICE team will present a packed hour of sketches and games driven by audience suggestions. Then on 21 February, come and see Lights, Camera, Improv!, in which the ICE team will improvise a full hour-long disaster movie right in front of your very eyes!
'ICE may not have had a script, a plan or even a clue, but they definitely had one thing on their side - lots and lots of laughter.' - TCS
- February 2005
The Comedy Iceberg and ICE present four brand new, made up on the spot, TV shows (punctuated by commercial breaks, news flashes and even government information films), offering you the opportunity to vote off the worst of the dross. Lifestyle makeover? Fly-on-the-wall documentary? Police drama? You decide...
