​​17th March 2017
​AD HOCK AROUND THE ROCK  With Celebrity Guest Louise Jameson

​Ad Hoc Around the Clock brought some new devised games into the set on the theme of film and theatre, as well as an improvised Shakespeare scene, Temperamental  Director and Actor's Nightmare. Although we call these 'games' they are really formats around which we improvise. The second half  featured our celebrity guest Louise Jameson, best known for her TV appearences in Dr Who,  Bergerac, Tenko, East Enders, and Doc Martin. Louise took part as a guest on a chat show and her private and public life was inerpreted by the improvisors. Sure to provoke a great evening.
We had a full house and the show raised a thousand pounds for Rusthall Common residents who are having to defend their their free right of access to their homes. A really receptive audience, started with them passing a giant ball over their heads and enthusiastically shouting out suggested words for conducted story when the music stopped.

Jul 22nd 2017 Relations Amicals

 Distraught at the idea of Brexit Claque Impro changed their name to Claqueur to incorporate eu  into their name. Claqueur actor improvisers have been working and performing with German an Polish improvisation companies, and here as part of Tunbridge Wells Belgium week of celebration they were proud and privileged to be performing with Improviel Theatre. The Belgian actor improvisers spent a couple of days seeing the town, hosted by Tunbridge Wells Twinning Association, guests of the mayor, they visited the council chambers and the mayors parlour and attending a day long workshop with Claque. Relations Amiacles, was exactly that, friendly relations and shared humour. We all wonder as we work with these marvellous European groups about what we a doing to even think about breaking out of Europe, Visiting their lovely countries and towns, always being so generously welcomed, why would we not want to stay a part of that. At least we are able to show the Belgians we are bemused and dismayed by Bexit and will always remain in spirit true Europeans  

Jon Oram visits Restrisiko Impro Theatre in Wiesbaden, Germany

My wife Becca and I took a trip to Wisbaden in Germany to meet and perform with Restrisiko Theatre Improvisation company. We stayed with one of the companies founders Sybille Schropel and her husband Stephan. Sybille contacted me some months ago via the Tunbridge Wells Twinning Association with the idea of  Restrisiko and Claquer Impro working together. We went over toe discuss the, meet the group and workshop and perform with them. Dreadful weather and truck barricades on route stopped us getting there in time for a workshop so we had to perform without knowing too much about each other. However we had a few hours before hand to meet and do a warm up. They are a wonderful group of people. As I don't speak German they offered to perform in English, but I thought with a German audience they should stay with their own language and I would play it like one would a gibberish scene. We agreed on a long form improvisation format called Funeral. Friends and family of the deceased arrive one at a time and stand in from of the grave expressing a reaction, maybe a relationship and go and sit at a row at the back of the stage. The deceased watches on. Conversations begin, relationships between guests are established, two people step forward and begin a flash back scene, retire back to the wake which continues to develop. then a scene with the deceased. So scenes and the wake develop stories and links. I am mostly unaware of whats going on but I and understanding emotional ties. I'm dragged into a scene and speak English, responding as bet I can. The amusement is as much in the misunderstandings.
The experience establishes at least that we would all like to work together and plans are hatched for them to visit us in September next year and for the Claquere's to reciprocate with a visit to Wiesbaden in late October.

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