Jungle of Emotions: Liverpool Improvisation Festival – Unity Theatre
Day three of the festival opens with a child friendly episode presented by Peng! Impro, where this improv company aims to help young people to be able to express emotions through laughter. There are opportunities for interaction, so the children feel as though they are collaborating in the telling of the story.
In the jungle, this German improv company attempt to re-create the sounds and feel of the jungle by asking the audience for ideas of an animal, and something that the animal can do in its spare time. The suggestions were a monkey, and the monkey’s interest was to philosophize! Mary Gerald (the monkey now has a name), is starting a new life a university in a few weeks’ time, but she doesn’t know what to study, her short list consists of philosophy, and engi...