Current Projects

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If you have questions or are interested in finding out more about our work, or booking one of our shows for your festival or venue then get in touch on office@improbable.co.uk.

Summer Workshops

Improvisation For An Uncertain World

How do you hold all the different things you have to do? How do you care for others without losing yourself? How do you manage the mundane and remain visionary? How do you hold the awfulness and the wonder of the world? How do you feel hope amidst the grief?

Applications are closed

28 July - 1 August 2025

My Neighbour Totoro

Winner of six Olivier Awards and five WhatsOnStage Awards, this “utterly beguiling” (The Stage) and “jaw-dropping” (Metro) staging of the celebrated 1988 animated feature film is brought to you by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi in collaboration with Nippon TV and Improbable.

Currently running on the West End at the Gillian Lynne Theatre until March 2026.

Perfect Show For Rachel

Rachel is a theatre-loving, enigmatic, learning-disabled 35 year-old who loves Kylie, heckling her sister, and seeing people falling over. At the touch of a button she commands the action, each scene brought to life by a skilled cast ready for whatever she asks of them. From bar room brawls to a bourbon biscuit cabaret - get ready, this is Rachel’s Perfect Show.

UK Tour October 2025 - June 2026

Improbable Sessions

Sit in on the Session, as incredible musicians improvise music just for you. By turns rousing, melancholic, lyrical and funky, an evening of glorious music created before your very ears.

Part gig, part Ted Talk, all experiment. A thrilling evening of music and ideas like no other.

Next Performance Oxford Playhouse, September 23

Outside The Frame

Who picks the subject? Who creates the frame? Who’s in and who’s out?

Outside The Frame delves into hidden histories and salacious stories through improvisation, autobiographical stories, spoken word, devising, movement, song and puppetry.

Outside The Frame began as a digital laboratory and is now in development as a new show led by Angela Clerkin and Adedamola Bajomo.

In development

BambinO

An operatic adventure for 6 to 18 month olds.

This unique and colourful work for infants aged 6 to 18 months reinvents operatic language and traditions for children at an age when their minds are wide open to new sounds, images and experiences. Babies are free to explore during the performance, interacting with singers, musicians and each other. We hope adults might find new ways of enjoying music too – through the ears of their bambini!

Currently touring in LA with LA Opera and in the UK with Scottish Opera

M/Others Who Make

M/Others Who Make is a growing international movement for women and non-binary parents who care about creating, and create whilst caring. Through a range of peer support meetings, artistic events and innovative projects we aim to support women and non-binary people to sustain their creative identities whilst also holding caring roles.

You can find our more about their programme, upcoming events and how to support the initiative on their website.

Associate-led Projects

Improbable are currently supporting the following projects run by associates and friends of the company.

Through The Door

Through the Door is course of eight improvisation workshops, for women, non-binary and trans people who are actors, improvisors and theatre-makers. We will be exploring impro in theatre, comedy, storytelling, devising, and movement. We will play at being heroes and villains, explore untold and unlikely tales, and notice what happens when we put our own stories centre stage. There will be 2 groups, beginners level and for those more experienced. Led by Creative Facilitator Angela Clerkin plus guests.

Starting 17 November 2024

APPLICATIONS CLOSED