Celebrity Theatresports® 30th Anniversary

Celebrity Theatresports® 30th Anniversary

Thirty years of ‘improv’ comedy goes on show for one night only with Celebrity Theatresports® 30th Anniversary, which features an all-star cast of Australia’s best and funniest ‘improv’ talent including Adam Spencer, Steen Raskopoulos and Jay Laga’aia.

For Julia Zemiro, who has been there almost from the beginning, it occupies a formative space in her career: “When I was at Sydney Uni, each Sunday night we would go down to Belvoir Street and watch people do these games and I was just fascinated.”

One of Australia’s favourite television personalities with an impressive body of work behind her, Zemiro sees her ‘improv’ training as being absolutely vital to her craft. “Where else can you get up, try to do a scene and if you fail it’s OK?” said Zemiro. “As an actor it was so great to figure out how not to panic on stage and even when you do panic, brilliant things can happen.”

For the uninitiated, Theatresports® is madcap, improvised, ad-lib comedy evening centred on a series of games where teams compete for laughs and the judges score. Terrifying and brilliant, it requires exceptional teamwork and the ability to listen and react to the other people on stage.

As for its enduring popularity, Zemiro says: “I think people sit in the audience and go, ‘I don’t believe that’s made up. I don’t know how you did that. I’m coming back next week to see you do it from scratch.’”

For more of our conversation with Julia head to our website altmedia.net.au (GW)

Saturday August 15, 8:00pm, Enmore Theatre, 118-132 Enmore Rd, Newtown, 2042, $28-68, ticketek.com.au, 02 9550 3666.

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