Tag: The Cambridge Impronauts

I cannot go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival without seeing improvisation, and as I have never seen the Cambridge Impronauts before, I thought I would pop along.  The Cambridge Impronauts as a company were formed in 2003 and have been calling the Gilded Balloon home for the last seven years.  In their home town of Cambridge, they run open workshops for students and locals, and show off their improv skills in local shows. Today at the Gilded Balloon, we saw the team using short-form improv in a ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’ style.  For those young ones who are too old to remember this show, there are short scenes improvised after taking suggestions from the studio audience.  There is a director setting the scene for the audience, who encourages ideas that will help to...