In the works of Tennessee Williams, vivid dreams collide with stark reality. Repressed desires, an excess of emotion, and poetic language express the inner life of the playwright and each character as they struggle against the confines of society. Tennessee Williams’ goal was to write plays that were ‘a picture of my own heart; we strive to emulate this approach as we wear our hearts on our sleeves with each show.

Developed in Conjunction with Kaci Beeler of American Berserk Theatre in Austin, Texas.

(21:00 - 22:00 - Theaterzaal)

In movies, we often ache for the main characters to fall in love.. Tonight, we make you a promise: they will. Over the course of 4 rainy seasons in a year, we get to know these two people in their own worlds, until finally.. they meet. A theatrical longform format by Anja Sophie Boorsma where the story unfolds before your eyes and.. in your imagination.

(22:30 - 23:00 - Blauwe Zaal)

Hovering over a public toilet seat while keeping your pants from touching the floor, wearing another pair of underwear over your stockings to keep them from sliding down, being sexually harassed, coughing over your farts to cover the sound, keeping business as usual even while hurting from period pain, allowing someone to help you carry your suitcase up the stairs, feeling your baby kick in your womb… These are only some of our experiences as women in this world.The kind of things women talk about behind closed doors, (if they even talk about them at all...) and the kind of experiences we rarely see on stage. Until now!

In this show everything will be out in the open - all the funny, painful, scary, icky and powerful moments we experience as women, alone and together.

How does it feel to be a woman on this planet? Come watch the show!This show is not just for women! - men and all genders are invited !

An external narrator can come and give focus to an element of the scene to create a fluid transition. The actors will then take the time in music to restructure a new universe with their bodies. Round trips are possible in universes already crossed. The goal is to find the echoes and common threads that will emerge, then gradually blur the boundaries between the worlds and create organic sensory universes where the corporality will express the essence of the scenes played.

(21:00 - 22:00 - Theaterzaal)

Inspired by poems from the Arab spring, which are being read on stage in Arabic and Hebrew, Inbal and Zaki will play scenes about conflict, love, friendship, hardship, and more.

They will use the cultural similarities between them and dive into the distances.

They don't shy away from “Hard” topics and they'll use storytelling and humour to explore them.

(22:30 - 23:00 - Blauwe Zaal)

A totally unexpected murder happens during a social event. Everybody present knew the deceased, and thus everybody is a suspect. The interrogations begin, and with them the story unravels. Who had the greatest motive and who, ultimately, is the killer? The interrogator listens to the same story from different angles and needs to untangle the mystery and bring the culprit to justice. The killer is discovered and the inspector, in a dramatic public announcement, reveals who the person responsible for the murder is. Were they right or wrong? It remains to be seen…

This improvised play highlights the importance of oral tradition and storytelling through two different and conflicting characters: a calm, brain-centered playwright and a wacky physical jester.

(21:00 - 22:00 - Theaterzaal)

Here is an improvised musical inspired by the work of Stephen Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown. It’s a piece of theatre about the everyday. Did you ever feel deep fulfilment from sharpening your pencils, utter disgust for your office job or a wonderful sense of serendipity when you stepped off the bus and saw a squirrel? Of course you did, and so do we.

(22:30 - 23:00 - Blauwe Zaal)

We all know what a play looks like, but do we all see the same thing? Somewhat Theatre ask what makes a play a play.

A new piece exploring the nature of theatre and other grand-minded ideas. Somewhat Theatre formed with the idea of working out what makes something feel like a play, and we're digging into that - we'll be asking the audience what makes a play a play and then performing that play. Playfully.

The Cell is an improv show that locks an improviser in a sound proof cell with a camera for an hour straight while the onstage comedians dive into the captive comedian’s mind…right as it breaks.

One improviser is selected at random to be locked in a cell with nothing but a camera that is streaming their every move to a screen on stage – only they don’t know when they’re being watched and when they’re not.

As players onstage create a hilarious run of scenes, games, and monologues inspired by the madness coming from the cell, the captive comedian has to keep turning out a never-ending show without an audience, and without ever knowing when they’re being watched.

Created by Tom Hill (Amy&Tom), the Cell has been performed all over the world.

(21:00 - 22:00 - Theaterzaal)

In this monoscene-ish show “CHEKHOV’S TOY GUN PEW-PEW EXCELLENT SHOW!” Doris Likes Everything does what they do best - they play hard and silly in a space time continuum, taking you to a destination unknown, until it has been created together with the help of the audience. In the beginning of the show Doris asks for different objects that exist in the fixed location, and by the end of the show they have used all/some of them in the most obvious and not-so-obvious ways to ensue hilarity.

(22:30 - 23:00 - Blauwe Zaal)

Life is made of strong choices.

But have you ever asked yourself: what would my life be like if I had made the other choice? Would it have been better?

This show allows you to live these choices, in parallel, and perhaps give you an element of answer.

(21:00 - 22:00 - Theaterzaal)

An improvised theatre show based on movement, the body and music! A series of scenes connected to the things you have shared with us, to create a beautiful patchwork of characters, stories and feelings.

(22:30 - 23:00 - Blauwe Zaal)

In this improvised show, we get to know characters that occasionally turn on the tv. As you might find yourself swapping between channels, so do the stories unfolding on stage. Watch several stories play out, both between the people watching, and not to mention - what they're watching. It will be like nothing you´ve ever seen before, not even on tv. GuaranTV’d.

It's an exiting exploration on the dark side of humans, either villains or heroes, diving into their deepest feelings: love, anger, revenge, greed, etc. Through movement, stage fighting, imaginary objects and spaces, "The Hook" will take you throw a journey of emotions. Stage fighting set choreographies are part of the improvised stories that talk about social and political topics that touch our lives day by day.

(20:15 - 22:00 - Theaterzaal)

Impro Amsterdam brings each year people from many places, with such diverse backgrounds, and with unique cultures. As the closing night of this 27th edition, we offer you a show bringing on stage four different genres inspired by four places in the world: Iran, Greece, Sudan and Colombia. The audience will get to pick which stories they want to see more of, and which stories will be brought to an end, in an extravaganza of improvised theatre with the entire IA Cast one last time on stage!