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The Oxford Imps are an
The Oxford Imps were formed by final year student Hannah Madsen and first performed at the Wheatsheaf pub in Oxford High Street in January 2004. Since 2004, the Imps performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Listing
. They have previously toured to Bosnia, France,
On 25 March 2009, the Oxford Imps' appearance on British daytime TV quiz '' Eggheads'' was broadcast on BBC2.
Official website
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improvisational comedy
Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers. In its purest form, the dialogue, a ...
troupe based in Oxford
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, England, where they currently perform every Monday during University term time at The Jericho Tavern pub (since 2021); previously, they performed at The Wheatsheaf pub. They also perform annually at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Gilded Balloon
Gilded Balloon is a producer and promoter of live entertainment events, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and best known as one of the Big Four venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe each August.
The company has its origins in a venue kno ...
.
History
The Oxford Imps were formed by final year student Hannah Madsen and first performed at the Wheatsheaf pub in Oxford High Street in January 2004. Since 2004, the Imps performed at the Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ...
.. They have previously toured to Bosnia, France,
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in the Netherlands
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, and Grahamstown
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South Africa. They have also toured numerous times to the US. to Chicago and Providence, and Nashville.
They have performed radio shows on Oxide Radio, BBC Radio Oxford
BBC Radio Oxford is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Oxfordshire.
It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios in the Summertown area of Oxford.
According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audienc ...
, and Fest FM.
The Oxford Imps celebrated their tenth anniversary in February 2014, with their 32 members performing at Oxford's New Theatre.
TV appearances
On 25 March 2009, the Oxford Imps' appearance on British daytime TV quiz '' Eggheads'' was broadcast on BBC2.
Alumni
Former members of The Oxford Imps include: *Rachel Parris
Rachel Sarah Parris (born 27 May 1984) is an English comedian, musician, actress and presenter. She hosts the satirical news show '' Late Night Mash'' (formerly ''The Mash Report'').
Early life
Parris attended Loughborough High School. She hold ...
- stand-up comedian
* Sophie Duker
Sophie Duker (born 1989/1990) is a British stand-up comedian and writer.
Early life
Duker was born in London to first-generation immigrants from West Africa. Her mother is from Cameroon and her father is from Ghana. She studied French and Engli ...
- stand-up comedian
* Ivo Graham
Ivo is a masculine given name, in use in various European languages. The name used in western European languages originates as a Normannic name recorded since the High Middle Ages, and the French name Yves is a variant of it. The unrelated So ...
- stand-up comedian
See also
*The Oxford Revue
The Oxford Revue is a comedy group primarily featuring students from Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University, England. Founded in the early 1950s, The Oxford Revue has produced many prominent comedians, actors and satirists. The Revue wr ...
* Teams who have defeated the Eggheads
References
External links
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oxford Imps Arts organizations established in 2004 Amateur theatre companies in England Culture in Oxford Clubs and societies of the University of Oxford Student theatre in the United Kingdom British comedy troupes