This show is over – but we remember it fondly.
“Cats, psychiatrists, werewolves, more cats, a llama … Gorilla”
From WIT Gorilla Theatre, August 24, 2011, posted by Ali Little on 8/25/2011 (12 items)
Category Archives: Formats
The Young and the Witless V, 2011
There is an episode by episode summary on the show’s Facebook page. Back for its fifth season in June and July 2011 Wellington’s best, and only, improvised soap opera turned its overly melodramatic eye to the highly competitive and scandalous world of indoor social netball. Team mates and lovers, friends and coaches, nemesis and referees – all ripe for soft lens over-acting and long dramatic pauses with a swelling musical score.
Improvaganza, 2011
Two WIT members were part of a team that completed Oxfam’s 100km Trailwalk – and a group of WIT volunteers put on charity show at The Waikanae Club.
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An evening of fun and entertainment in support of Oxfam.
The Wellington Improvisation Troupe, fresh from the Wellington Comedy festival, will be presenting a charity show in Waikanae… Scenes will be created right before your eyes! Songs! Laughter! Excitement! A show that has never been seen before and will never be seen again.
There will also be raffles and lucky door prizes. Get a group together for a great night out.
This show is on behalf of the Kapiti-based Oxfam Trailwalkers, Team Wine Not. All proceeds from the show will be donated to Oxfam to support development work in the South Pacific and beyond.
WIT Dreamz, 2011
Hop into bed with us!
It’s time to delve beneath the duvet into the subconscious mind of dreams and nightmares. In WIT Dreamz, Wellington’s finest improvisers will weave the audience’s night-time visions into a web of surreal, hilarious and occasionally spooky stories. Continue reading
Wednesdays with WIT, 2008 – 2011
Between festivals and seasons of shows such as The Young and the Witless WIT began to regularly organise more informal nights at the Blue Note Bar (now the Fringe Bar). These were collectively promoted under the umbrella of Wednesdays with WIT, with the name shifting to The Improv Lounge in 2012.
Shows in Wednesdays with WIT included many Micetros, Gorillas, House Team shows, The Improv Lab (itself an umbrella for a variety of shows) and more. Many shows such as The Last Saloon and Divas and the Beast had their first public outing at a WwW evening before going on to a Fringe or Comedy Festival season.
WwW November 2011
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NZ Improv Festival, 2010
The third annual NZ Improv Festival was held at BATS and the Fringe Bar in October 2010.
Press Release 4 October 2010
We’ve got visiting improvisors from Christchurch, Auckland, Sydney and Canada, not to mention the lovely people who hail from Wellington. As well as shows every night, we are offering public workshops for high school students, teachers, and beginner adults.
The Improv Lab, 2010
08 – 29 September 2010, The Fringe Bar
From the dark, cobwebbed recesses of the minds of Wellington’s top improvisers come a whole new weird and wonderful collection of improv formats. Once again Wellington Improv Troupe (WIT) is at the forefront of freakish creative experimentation with Improv Lab.
Each Wednesday night in September witness two completely new Frankenstein-like improv creations in their embryonic stages. Come along and help decide which of these creations should be nurtured into a full length WIT show for 2011… and which should be squashed before it mutates and wreaks havoc on the city.
Young and the Witless 4, June – August 2010
Lust . . . Betrayal . . . Family
Wellington’s only improvised soap opera returns!
At the Fringe Bar
Wednesdays 2 Jun 2010 to 25 Aug 2010
Cast included:
Geoff Simmons, Christine Brooks, Simon Smith, Karen Anslow, Jennifer O’Sullivan, Paul Sullivan, Wiremu Tuhiwai
Fresh from knock out seasons of Micetro, Improv Divas, and Gods & Heroes, the Wellington Improv Troupe is back with another titillating season of intrigue, secrets and unrequited lust!
Join the Wakefields, NZ’s #2 retail family as they battle tough economic times, off shore manufacturing, and each other for control of the legacy of great granddad Wakefield.
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Theatreview.org commented that the show attracted “large and exuberant houses who are not disappointed as the improvisers deliver a compelling combination of narrative twists, character based gags and sardonic breakings of the fourth wall”
The Improv Divas 2010
Wellington welcomes back The Improv Divas
The Improv Divas are back! NZ’s leading ladies of improv are ready to rock the capital with an all new, all improvised show in 2010’s International Comedy Festival.
Produced and performed by an all-female ensemble cast from Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT), The Improv Divas will lead you through an hour of humour, honesty and hilarity, telling stories made up on the spot based on audience suggestion and whatever the ever-present wind blows in. Continue reading
Here Be Dragons, 2010
Here Be Dragons: An improvised role-play adventure with dull swords and sharp WITs!
Producer/devisor Brandon Brooks
9, 16 & 23 March at the Fringe Bar, and also a slot in The Improvathon