Christmas Cracker
Comedy Store Players at Shakespeare's Globe on Tuesday 17th December 2024
The world famous improv troupe, the Comedy Store Players, returns to Shakespeare’s Globe for a Christmas Special at 7pm on Tuesday 17th December, to start the celebrations of our 40th anniversary year.
We are delighted to be invited back to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre where we’ve performed regularly since 1998. The performers that night will be Ruth Bratt, Monica Gaga, Josie Lawrence, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch, with Steve Edis (improvising the music) and ME!
Expect lightning-quick reactions and world-class silliness! There’ll be improvised songs, scenes, stories and, especially for The Globe, an impromptu ’Shakespeare playlet’. Past triumphs include Two Gentlemen of Vauxhall, Titus Androgynous, Julia’s Scissors, Much Ado About Muffins and Omelette (very loosely based on Hamlet). These were all suggested by the audience, who will be asked to offer suggestions for film and theatre styles, emotions, hobbies, occupations, locations, and much more, including some with a festive theme on this occasion.
It’s also an opportunity to bring the family too! The show is suitable for anyone aged 14 and above. It lasts approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes, including an interval.
BY THE WAY, A FRIEND THOUGHT IT’S ONLY STANDING AT THE GLOBE. NO! LESS THAN HALF THE AUDIENCE IS STANDING. AND MOST OF THOSE TICKETS HAVE GONE NOW.
Guinness World Records has officially confirmed The Comedy Store Players as the world's longest-running comedy show with the same cast. Our 40th birthday is 27th October 2025.
Josie Lawrence says: “It’s a complete joy to be playing Shakespeare’s Globe at this magical time of year. It’s astonishing and wonderful how brilliantly improv comedy works in that space and it is always a fantastic night.”
The performance will take place on Tuesday 17th December at The Globe Theatre. Tickets, priced £5-£45, are now on sale at https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the-comedy-store-players/
“The best ad-lib ensemble in the UK” Evening Standard
A bottomless supply of surreal sketches, dramatic vignettes and almost tuneful operettas … a must for anyone with a pulse and a sense of humour! BBC
A supportive crowd wills on six brave performers who arrive with no script and not the faintest idea of what will happen. Through improvisation they create whole sketches and comic dramas that are amazingly inventive and sometimes take off into flights of surreal brilliance. ‘Whose Line Is it Anyway?’ is a pale TV imitation The Telegraph
