
This Halloween... it's Séance Fiction.
Starring
Michael Orton-Toliver, David Reed, Alison Thea-Skot, Suki Webster and Phil Whelans.
Saturday 31 October 2015 - 8:00pm
Omnibus Theatre,
1, Clapham Common Northside,
London SW4 0QW.
Map
£10/£8 Tickets
This Halloween, we invite you to step onto the comedy ghost-train and join five of London’s most fearless improvisers on a journey into the unknown as we explore the life and recent death of a character you help to invent.
Three strangers have received a mysterious summons to take part in a séance. And so have you.
A voice is calling from beyond the grave! Who is it? We don’t know. What does it want? We don’t know. Why don’t we know? We don’t know. But probably because everything about the deceased will be improvised. With your help.
Like Derek Acorah or Psychic Sally, we’re making it us as we go along in… Séance Fiction.
Michael Orton-Toliver is a member of legendary - and confusingly - Amsterdam-based American Impro troupe, Boom Chicago. He started at Comedy Sportz, and has played with IO West, The Second City, Ultimate Improv and with his buddy, UCB alumnus, Jim Woods. Here, he performs and teaches with the Free Association.
David Reed - One third of monster hit sketch team The Penny Dreadfuls (two series and several one-offs on BBC Radio 4.) David has been on TV in such shows as Gary: Tank Commander, Fast and Loose, It's Kevin (which Phil was in too) and Father Figure.
Alison Thea-Skot - Recently starred in So On & So Forth for BBC Radio 4. Nominated for Best Actress at the 2014 British Independent Film Festival, Alison has worked everywhere - from Shakespeare's Globe to The Basil Brush Show* for the BBC. As an improviser, she guests with Chortle award winners Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel. She is also a member of 5 star improv super-group the Free Association.
Suki Webster - Comedy Store Player, Paul Merton's Impro Chum, Eddie Izzard's co-conspirator in Impro M.D. and One-Word Improv, and Ross Noble’s for his run of shows at the Cutty Sark. Suki has developed her own Impro Format, The Guest Speaker.
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. As a writer or performer, Phil has worked with everyone from Robin Williams to Chris Morris, Al Gore to Brian Conley, Joan Rivers to Basil Brush.* He improvises with Grand Theft Impro and Monkey Toast.
*Spooky