Dunedin’s Improsaurus troupe is launching a new season of improvised shows this year. Each performance is made up on the spot — based on audience suggestions.
Improsaurus is starting the year with an "intake show" involving seven improvisers who have been working through the audition process since October. The show will be held this Friday from 9pm at the New Athenaeum Theatre (NAT).
The "games season" will continue with an ongoing series of shows, based on information from a game, including Pictionary (May 5), Uno (May 19), Yu-Gi-Oh (June 2), and The Cheat Show (June 16). All shows are at 9pm at The NAT.
Improsaurus began in 2009 as a group of University of Otago students looking for a creative outlet. From 2011 the group performed a fortnightly show at the Fortune Theatre. Since it closed it has been working to re-establish itself at the NAT.
Improsaurus’ specialty is its own original brand of long form improv and fresh, innovative formats developed by the troupe each fortnight. And it is very funny.
