Typically, 6 players per night play The Impro Show with a fifth acting as the MC. As an assault on your senses here's the whole Motley Crew: the sack from which we pick the potatoes, the pencil case from whence we choose the pens, the flock that gives birth to the suckling lamb ...
 Josh Ansley
After many years as top choir boy at Westminster Cathedral in London, Josh left the world of sweet harmony and descant to become a rock musician, singing with top Ukranian rock bands Sewing Room Terra and One Cookie Short. After snapping a vocal chord singing a high C during a concert in Kitwe (on tour with SRT) Josh got tired of buying everything in one shop and travelled south to Zimbabwe to try out his talents as a modern day hunter and gatherer. He now enjoys endless days of roaming supermarkets and seeking out bargains and is gently nursing his vocal chords back into shape by singing songs about inflation in the bath. He says the reverb is good there. |
 Chipo Chikara
Spends European summers in the Swiss Alps as a goatherd and part-time yodeller. Her favourtite goat is Sven. When Chipo is not yodelling or goatherding, she spends her time solving unsolved livestock mysteries for the SBI (the Sheep Bureau of Investigation) - a job our non-travelling reserve arranged for her. (Thanks Alberto! You're the baa-aast!) |
 Alex Fairlie
Born in Kathmandu, Nepal, Alex was raised in a Buddhist monastery about ten miles from the Himalayas. After spending ten years with his fellow monks, Alex decided to grow his hair back and head for Hong Kong to become a martial arts warrior. He learned his craft from various different Hong Kong gangs while living on the streets. Eventually he perfected the art of maritals, sorry, I mean martial arts; but living on the streets meant that he had to battle with poverty and rats (human and rodent). One day, a Hollywood producer was walking out of a brothel after purchasing their services and he noticed the great skill with which Alex defended himself against some tomato thieves. The producer approached Alex and asked if he would like to go to Hollywood to act in movies. Alex jumped at the opportunity of living the American dream (he thought that it involved meeting and sleeping with blonde American girls ... but the idea of being a movie star also appealed to him). So he was brought to Hollywood and acted in over 50 low budget kung fu movies. He was shot accidentally by a prop gun during the filming of Big Wong Supremacy 3 and is currently recovering in the bottom bit of Africa doing Impro Shows. |
 Kevin Hanssen
The only son of a matchmaker from Berlin, Kevin grew up at sea with his Uncle Henry after his parents died in a freak cigarette lighting competition. It was while floating on the big blue wobbly that he learnt the sea chantys that he is now famous for in every sea chanty karaoke bar along the pacific coast of West Africa. After making a fortune as a sea chantologist, Kevin turned to gymnastics where he won several gold medals and one blue one for his limbering up on the parallel bars, the horse and the chicken. (The chicken was a piece of short lived olympic gymnastic apparatus that involved a hoop, two circluar bars and a glass bottle.) Weary of the constant attention Kevin 'Mad Dog ' Hanssen enjoyed from adoring fans he looked for somewhere quieter to return to his love of singing and the arts. In a cosy little theatre in the Upstairs section of a place called Reps he found solace in a regular dose of what inmates there called 'Impro'.
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 Larry Kwirirayi
He was born - doesnt know where. He was raised - no idea how and where. But he is here so deal with it. On the whole he will be seen with the vicar's daughter, oggling at that new nun and all the while pretending to be reading Sun-Tzu's Art of War. Rumours that he is actually Barack Obama's cousin are unfounded. He is not Kenyan. But then again ... |
 Melanie Mostert
Mel Mel Mel was once released from an eye clinic where she was admitted for 'poor depth perception'. Medication and eye wear did not help. Instead the clinic discovered some deep rooted fears involving vegetables that Mel consequently began working through. After exhaustive medical trials she was released into the world when it was confirmed that she wasn't actually a potato. She discovered a deep love for potatoes after losing her insecurities about being one and turned to marketing deep fried chips to most of Southern Africa. This was until she started to cry out "Stop Mashing Me" in her sleep and, realising the cruetly of murdering potatoes, now heads CAMP (Cruelty Against Murdered Potatoes). Thousands of potato parents have called their first born daughters Mel Mel Mel in honour of this true Spud Hero. |
 Musa Saruro
Born in the dusty streets of Rio, Musa started his career as an AFD (Aviation Fuel Dealer) at 18. He was taught by the best, learning the delicate arts of HTSFFCs (How To Siphon Fuel From Cars) and HTSFF747s (How To Siphon Fuel From 747s). The dangerous nature of his chosen passion meant Musa developed AMP (A Mental Problem). There was only one option for those who develop AMP: he was forced to join the theatre. Leaving the lucrative art of HTSFFCs&747s and taking up the less lucrative art of BS (Being Silly). It was while he was at the ABSCFSP (Annual Being Silly Convention For Silly People) that he met Kevin Hanssen, who had just given up his career in gymnastics, and through this chance meeting ended up doing something called TIS (The Impro Show). Musa normally takes medication to counter the effects of HTSFFCs and HTSFF747s. Please be advised that he has chosen to not take it during the run of this Impro Show, he wants to be S&F (Sharp and Focused, Slick and Fly ... or ... perhaps just Silly and Feeble).
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