Live Improv Comedy
The FA is the place to see the best live improv comedy in town. Our monthly programme is a mix of seasoned pros, new and experimental shows, and up-and-coming talent from our community.
Live Shows
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“I felt almost high. I even wrote a f***ing tweet about it!” - Vice
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"a superb masterclass in the art of improvisational comedy" London Theatre
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"The FA Know how to find the funny and what to do with it!” - The Guardian
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"The FA Know What They Are Doing” - Chortle
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"This is what proper improv looks like” - Fest
★ “I felt almost high. I even wrote a f***ing tweet about it!” - Vice ★ "a superb masterclass in the art of improvisational comedy" London Theatre ★ "The FA Know how to find the funny and what to do with it!” - The Guardian ★ "The FA Know What They Are Doing” - Chortle ★ "This is what proper improv looks like” - Fest
The Cameo, a brand-new, exciting long-form improv show, returns to the FA, bringing together an all-star team of improvisers!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Fresh from their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, improv legends Graham Dickson (Austentatious) and Steen Raskopoulos (The Bear Pack), are back baby!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £14 + Booking Fee
George (off of Tome, Dreamphone (RIP), Sliding Lives (RIP), and Summer Camp, also qualified solicitor) and Sam (off of HotBed, Summer Camp, Goss, and teaching the comedy community to move good) have rehearsed a lot and tried really hard to put on this show because we respect our audience.
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Join HEATWAVE, best friends and even better players that improvise scenes and sketches inspired by YOUR favourite songs.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Fresh from their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, improv legends Graham Dickson (Austentatious) and Steen Raskopoulos (The Bear Pack), are back baby!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £14 + Booking Fee
Come and watch teams battle it out for a chance to win a large cash prize and the be crowned Cage Match Champions!
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Inspired by all of your favourite medical dramas – from Grey's Anatomy to House to ER – and a few words from our audience, the daring cast will improvise a brand-new episode of your new favourite show: 'St. Doctor's Hospital'
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Fresh from their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, improv legends Graham Dickson (Austentatious) and Steen Raskopoulos (The Bear Pack), are back baby!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £14 + Booking Fee
Come and watch teams battle it out for a chance to win a large cash prize and the be crowned Cage Match Champions!
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Come on down and watch two jam teams made up of FA students play alongside two of our experienced FA performers - all bringing fast, funny improv to our brand-new stage!
START: 5.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Every other Sunday, our brand new house Narrative Team brings you a tale never that will always be remembered, but never be repeated.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Shake up your Sunday with The Lab — the freshest, most exciting improv experiment in London.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
Hilarious. Mind-blowing. Modest AF. Welcome to Anxiety Club. Improvised comedy from three majestic gazelles of improv - Charlotte Gittins, Briony Redman and Lauren Shearing (Austentatious, Showstopper, Questing Time, The Free Association, Comedy Store Players, Mischief Movie Night)
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
The FA’s finest improvisers and biggest show ponies together at last for a special night of improv comedy inspired by audience stories. Hosting our night of improv horseplay is the one and only Dave Hearn: actor and founding member the Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Together with his audience, veteran improviser Elms “builds a comedy mind palace before your very eyes. And you’ll want to move in for good!” - Phil Wang
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
WARNING!
This is a very clowns show. Probably too clowns for most. It’s also very experimentals. Maybe don’t come(s).
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Come and watch teams battle it out for a chance to win a large cash prize and the be crowned Cage Match Champions!
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
The flagship show from The Free Association, bringing together an all-star team of improvisers and mega-watt guests for a night of scintillating, salacious improv!
This month’s guests are Amy Gledhill & Eli Matthewson!
START: 7.30PM TICKETS: £15 + Booking Fee
Come and watch teams battle it out for a chance to win a large cash prize and the be crowned Cage Match Champions!
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Come on down and watch two jam teams made up of FA students play alongside two of our experienced FA performers - all bringing fast, funny improv to our brand-new stage! Then we’ll draw one final team from the hat of destiny to join the fun.
START: 5.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Every other Sunday, two Harold teams will show you the good stuff. Harold Night features our two house Harold teams - Sweetheart and Hotbed!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
The Greenhouse is a showcase of freshest up-and-coming talent from the FA! We're packing in a bunch of performances from current students, recent graduates and newly formed teams from the wider community - all into a one hour show.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
Groundhog is an improv comedy group made up of four veteran improvisers from The Free Association Theatre who have been performing since it opened its doors in 2014.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
The Bottle Your most talented and beloved FA performers performing a glorious monoscene.
Cast: Ian Thomas Day, Charlie Kemp, Chris Gau, Freya Slipper Betty Thompson, Bruce Tang, Nick Everritt, Patrick Dishman, Patrick Nevels, Scott Oswald and Michelle Fahrenheim.
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Fabled is an entirely improvised fantasy adventure tale that features a hilarious cast of improvisers with live musical accompaniment.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Improvisation meets improvisation as hilarious UK improv comedians and virtuoso jazz musicians inspire each other in real time into leaps of comedy and creativity.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Join the UK's two most physically attractive improvisers in A Very Capable Boy, the show that coaxes humour out of the joys and tragedies of everyday life.
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Legendary FA Harold Team NANA return with their new show: NANA’s Kitchen.
The show is cooked up into three courses - the amuse-bouches with two players, the starter with four players, and the scrumptious main with all six players jumping onto the pot.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Come on down and watch two jam teams made up of FA students play alongside two of our experienced FA performers - all bringing fast, funny improv to our brand-new stage! Then we’ll draw one final team from the hat of destiny to join the fun.
START: 5.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Every other Sunday, our brand new house Narrative Team brings you a tale never that will always be remembered, but never be repeated.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Shake up your Sunday with The Lab — the freshest, most exciting improv experiment in London.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
A ragtag group of comedy writers, directors and performers present works-in-progress of their latest sketch comedy films.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £8 + Booking Fee
PIGPEN is an improv show featuring the best comedy talent in London!
With special guest Lara Ricote!
This month’s cast is Alison Thea-Skot, Alex Holland, Gareth O’Connor, Graham Dickson & Mariam Haque.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Fire up your phones and get ready for an improv show inspired by YOUR Instagram photos.
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
The flagship show from The Free Association, bringing together an all-star team of improvisers and mega-watt guests for a night of scintillating, salacious improv!
START: 7.30PM TICKETS: £15 + Booking Fee
Join original FA house team The Wilsons for a big family reunion!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Come on down and watch two jam teams made up of FA students play alongside two of our experienced FA performers - all bringing fast, funny improv to our brand-new stage!
START: 5.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Every other Sunday, two Harold teams will show you the good stuff. Harold Night features our two house Harold teams - Sweetheart and Hotbed!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
The Greenhouse is a showcase of freshest up-and-coming talent from the FA! We're packing in a bunch of performances from current students, recent graduates and newly formed teams from the wider community - all into a one hour show.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
Stories that boldly go to strange new worlds. Characters created at the speed of light. This is Space Planet Mission, the most spontaneous sci-fi epic in the universe.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Together with his audience, veteran improviser Elms “builds a comedy mind palace before your very eyes. And you’ll want to move in for good!” - Phil Wang
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Comedy jocks Chris Gau & Alex Holland prove that improv isn’t just for nerds, it’s for very cool people who aren’t afraid to wear sunglasses on stage.
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Inspired by all of your favourite medical dramas – from Grey's Anatomy to House to ER – and a few words from our audience, the daring cast will improvise a brand-new episode of your new favourite show: 'St. Doctor's Hospital'
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Come on down and watch two jam teams made up of FA students play alongside two of our experienced FA performers - all bringing fast, funny improv to our brand-new stage!
START: 5.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Every other Sunday, our brand new house Narrative Team brings you a tale never that will always be remembered, but never be repeated.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Shake up your Sunday with The Lab — the freshest, most exciting improv experiment in London.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
Fabled is an entirely improvised fantasy adventure tale that features a hilarious cast of improvisers with live musical accompaniment.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
After sell out shows in London for many years, Steen Raskopoulos' Improvised Soap Opera is back bigger than ever at the Free Association's new venue.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Every other Sunday, two Harold teams will show you the good stuff. Harold Night features our two house Harold teams - Sweetheart and Hotbed!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee