Back for a 20th anniversary gig

Eddie Izzard has announced a new West End show – with a revival of an improv format that  helped make his name 20 years ago.

He is reuniting with longstanding improvisers Stephen Frost, Suki Webster and Neil Mullarkey for the anniversary edition of One Word Improv.

The show, involves the team taking a single word suggestion from the audience then seeing where the sketch takes them. 

‘It might last ten minutes or ten seconds, we never knew in advance,’ Mullarkey recalled. ‘Then we would take another word and so on. It was great fun, especially in the West End where we managed to regularly smash up the furniture on stage.’

The show toured the county before opening at the Albery Theatre in January 1997, when Financial Times reviewer Ian Shuttleworth called it ‘two hours of don't-stop-to-think laughter’.

Izzard is rejoining the team – all Comedy Store Players –  at the Palace Theatre for a one-off at 6pm next Friday, before Izzard performs his stand-up show Force Majeure Reloaded there.

 Tickets are available here.

Published: 1 Feb 2016