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Image: Animo
Photographer: Keith Pattison

	IMPROBABLE


	Opera\|Physical/visual theatre\|Devised theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
16–19 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors
Julian Crouch
Phelim McDermott
Lee Simpson
Producer
Nick Sweeting
General Manager
Sarah-Jane Rawlings

ARTISTIC POLICY
Improbable creates theatre and site-specific work; and engages in, supports, and develops the community in which it works on a national and international level. Improbable’s shows have grown out of their preparedness to create work by the seat of their pants and the skin of their teeth, stepping onstage before they are ready and allowing the audience to be an integral part in the creation of a show.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Improbable is one of the brilliant faces of British Theatre.
The Observer
Embraces the imagination of its audience like no other. You will never see anything quite like this
Time Out (Animo)
Anyone who has yet to grasp that theater can go places no other art form can need only experience this transporting 90 minutes, in which flesh is truly made spirit.
The New York Times (Spirit)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Animo
Uses a range of everyday materials and found objects to construct an hour of improvised theatre. Working with local puppeteers and animators both in a workshop and performance context.
60 mins, 7 on stage, 8 on the road
Spirit
Three performers struggle to tell the story of three brothers. Teasing, sad and funny, a serious joke about cycles of conflict on the personal and the global level, and maybe just a feeling about how we may break out of them.
80 mins, 3 on stage, 6 on the road
Lifegame
A theatrical biography. The show takes the bare bones of a life story by interviewing a guest onstage and then transforming that information, there and then, into a magical piece of theatre.
110 mins, 8–9 on stage, 10–11 on road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Panic
A return to the spirit of Improbable’s core devised shows. Drawn from personal stories and current obsessions, this is a tale of love and unsettling illnesses with brown paper and projections and many self help books. Panic’s London premiere will be at the Barbican in April 2009.

WRAP-AROUND
Improbable works with partners to develop appropriate additional activities, predominately but not exclusively aimed at emerging practitioners.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 NY, USA: Satyagraha
2007 USA: Animo
2006 Australia: The Hanging Man
2005 USA: Spirit
2004 Germany: Spirit

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request