Last weekend we gathered in Oxford for a practise with Alex, Olaf, Tom and myself (slightly decreased numbers due to weddings or as Rich calls them ‘weedings’ and Miss Price feeling a little under the weather). We were pleasingly productive, working out more details of the format of the show and doing our first uninterrupted full run, with the highlight for me being Tom and Alex as farmers in Roman Britain complaining about the loss of their raspsberries, strawsberries, bluesberries and othersberries. Damn those Romans stealing our sberries.

In addition to this though, we also did a show! New College invited us to do two slots at their Warden’s Leaving Party. Not only did this mean lots of free very very yummy food, but also a chance to perform  for an audience which (thankfully) laughs at your jokes and makes you feel like you’re funny again. Something you can begin to doubt when practicing in small meeting rooms with just the four of you.

The audience was just lovely and very enthusiastic about the show, especially a horde of children who excitedly shouted out suggestions of fruits and animals and when pressed, a planet. Our show is definitely family friendly I realised, and maybe we should actually branch out to improv for kids… Games like double-handed had them screaming with laughter.

I had every intention of taking some pictures of the event, but didn’t get the chance to. Olaf’s camera I believe has one picture of Tom, Alex and Olaf walking away from me on the lawn, which wasn’t really a very exciting picture anyway. So I’ll just post a picture of the lawn we performed on without us and without the party. You’ll have to imagine our hilarity and the scrumptious food yourself.New College Lawn