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Improv for the Stage and Joy of Improv classes start October 17th, so enroll now!
WIT’s next improv classes for adults start October 17th. These will run for eight weeks 7.30-9.30pm on Thursday nights, at the Wellington High School in Taranaki St, Mt Cook.
The Joy of Improvisation is WIT’s foundation class and suitable for any level of experience, including none at all. It has been run by WIT in association with the Wellington Community Education Centre (WCEC) for over 20 years now, and classes are always led by senior WIT trainers/performers. This term Kitty Parker is leading, and it’s bound to be a delightful intro to the art of theatre without a script.
Improv for the Stage is our ‘next step’ course, this term led by Anrik Drenth, and is a fun dive into more elaborate ways to tell stories, dipping into different styles and formats of improv, all shaped by what participants want. It’s the ideal course if you’ve already learnt the basics, either with WIT or another troupe, or you’ve other theatre training which used improv exercises and games, or if you’re returning to improv after a break. The focus is on becoming stage ready, supporting your fellow players, and generally having an excellently fun time. There’ll be a show opportunity at course’s end.
Warm up your evenings with a whole bunch of laughter and revel in being spontaneous and playful with a group of lovely people.
Ferris Wheel, Winter Season 2024
THESE LOVELY SHOWS ARE DONE!! More shows soon . . .
The Ferris Wheel format was created and taught to WIT by Wade Jackson. Set on the classic fairground ride Ferris Wheel stars a rotating (ha!) cast , weaving stories from the lives of the characters spun more tightly than spun sugar.
“Delightful energy, alertness and vulnerability….. fresh and invigorating.” – Theatreview NZ
When: 6pm Friday 6th September BATS
Where: BATS 1 Kent Tce, Wellington
Tickets available now!
A shiny new committee for WIT!
(including many bits of the old committee)
WIT held its 2024 AGM on July 13th at Te Auaha in Wellington, with some attending by zoom. If you had been there, you would have heard many fine people being thanked for helping WIT be WIT, a description of the fine shows and activities that happened, and that the WIT financial situation continues to be balanced and sound, largely unchanged from previous years.
Many of the previous committee were nominated and willing to serve again (with Kitty standing down and Emma and Nathan standing up), so the Committee for 2024/25 is:
Co-ordinator – Shaila Mehta-Wilson
Secretary – Ali Little
Undersecretary – Nathan Campbell
Creative Directors – Paddy Plunket / Emma Ross
Treasurer – Aristarkh Tikhonov
WIT – Draft Agenda for the 2024 AGM
Our AGM is scheduled to be held on the 16th of July. Anyone is welcome to attend, but only WIT members are eligible to vote or be elected to the committee. Active members not able to attend physically may be able to attend electronically, please email secretary@wit.org.nz for details.
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Draft Agenda
WELLINGTON IMPROVISATION TROUPE 21st ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)
Date: Tuesday July 16th,
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Venue: Te Auaha, 65 Dixon St, Te Aro, Wellington.
Quorum: 15 members
Chair: Shaila Mehta-Wilson, Coordinator
Secretariat: Ali Little
1. Welcome and acknowledgements
2. Apologies
3. Minutes of the previous AGM/SGM (held July 4th,2023)
4. Coordinator’s Report (Shaila Mehta-Wilson)
5. Creative Directors Report (Paddy Plunket/Kitty Parker)
6. Committee Elections a. Coordinator b. Creative Director(s) c. Treasurer d. Secretary 7. General Business
Micetro, Winter Season 2024
This show is done! But checkback soon for the next WIT show.
Beloved improv elimination competition Micetro is back for another bite of the cheese. The magnificent Lorraine was once crowned the Greatest WIT in Wellington. This time . . . well, there will be challengers.
A crew of eager improvisers will again battle head to head using wit, spur-of-the-moment storytelling and risking everything for an the love of the audience. There’ll be songs! Drama! Pathos, bathos probably a bit of logos! A mix of seasoned improvisers and adorable newcomers and everyone in between will play their hearts out to decide who gets eliminated and who survives to be crowned ‘Micetro’.
When: 6.30pm Thursdays nights 11 April, 2 May and 6 June
Where: BATS 1 Kent Tce, Wellington
Five Hundred Shows Later – NZIF 2023
A community full of classic improv characters come together for an epic celebration show. What could possibly go wrong?
This show happened in the past! There were a lot of doorknobs (“Every conceivable, inconceivable and improbable connotation of doorknobs entertainingly explored“), and it was a delight to be part of the 2023 NZ Improv Festival in Wellington. Maybe we’ll bring it back one day.
Five Hundred Shows explores what happens when a small town of enthusiastic amateur dramatists build the most epic show that was ever built.
Where: The Stage, BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace Wellington
When: Friday October 6th, 8pm
Tickets: BATS Website or ticket office
Spookytown – Halloween improv Jam 2023!
Halloween is when the restless spirits of the uneasy undead walk the streets of the Windy City, and therefore exactly the right time for a gently haunted improv jam.
Dress up as you like, or even disguise yourself as someone Perfectly Normal. There may well be prizes, and certainly there’ll be candy. The Jam will organinsed in a directed ‘games from the hat’ style, with suggestions used to inspire games and open scenes.
If you’d like to play you’re in! If you feel a bit shy, you’re the audience!! Doors open at 6.30pm for a group warm up, sitting down for the full jaminess from 7pm. It’s simple and fun, with plenty of friendly people to support you if you haven’t done improv in a while, or even much ever at all.
Of course, as this is a licensed venue if you’re under 18 bring a parent or guardian, and if you look under 25 (as so many of the undead do) be sure to bring your id.
Where: The PowWow Room, 74 Courtenay Place Wellington (upstairs from the Dakota Bar)
When: 31st October, 6.30/7pm
Cost: $5 Concession / $10 General, buy tickets online or at the door