Lynn Belvedere

IMPROV COMEDY CAGEFIGHT – GRAND FINAL CUP @ THE FACTORY THEATRE MARRICKVILLE

 

 
IMPROV COMEDY CAGEFIGHT is Australia’s largest improvised comedy competition, every Monday night from 7.30pm at the Bank Hotel in Newtown, with hundreds of unique performers (competing in teams of two, or three or more) alive on stage.
 
Each week the audiences at The Improv Comedy Cagefight Competition will be voting to find the impressive top seven teams, who will fight it out at the high energy, grand final performance. At the grand final, each and every team has fourteen minutes to perform in any improvised comedy format of their choosing – heartfelt confessions, tawdry humour, of course including cheeky, quirky, plus wildly eccentric improvised theatre, OR comedy sketch OR “Theatresports”.

Team sizes range from two to eight people. Each team performs in only one semi final and non-winners are then eliminated. These are the improv comedy events for our time. Purely frivolous fun romp full of striking seductive storytelling. Highly Recommended.

IMPROV COMEDY CAGEFIGHT every Monday, at The Bank Hotel, located at 324 King Street, Newtown, NSW.

Every Monday from 7:30pm in Waywards at The Bank Hotel, multiple teams of comedians battle it out for improvised comedy glory AND the audience votes to decide the winner.

On Thursday 4th May 2023 the grand final event of IMPROV COMEDY CAGEFIGHT was at THE FACTORY THEATRE, starting at 7:30pm and finishing around 9.30pm, with the one interval of fifteen minutes.

Comedic duo of Ruby Blinkhorn and Kate Wilkins teamed up, to win the IMPROV COMEDY CAGEFIGHT CUP. The grand final winning team, and received $1,000 cash.

Grand Final Teams in order of appearance were –

(1) Friends, No Benefits (Tyler Dias, Annaliese Shaw, Jordy Russo, Georgie Daniels)
(2) Nick and Tom (Nick Harriott, Tom Waddell)
(3) Level Two (Tom Forsyth, Lachlan Welch, Thomas Howard, Alex Wylie)
(4) The Queen’s Ex-Boyfriends (Sam Bargwanna, Ryan Atkins, Jordan Gregory-Dunsmore, Brendan Atkins)

INTERVAL

(5) Pure Comedy by Father John Misty (Kate Wilkins, Ruby Blinkhorn) WINNING TEAM
(6) Immediate Family (Daniel Nour, Jayce Carrano, Georgie Pender, Anna May)
(7) Dragon Zombies (Sam Reucassel, Hugh Finlayson, Charlie Papps)

WEEKLY TICKETS – https://improvcomedycagefight.rezdy.com/522607/improv-comedy-cagefight-show

WEEKLY EVENT WEBSITE – https://www.improvcomedycagefight.com.au/

BOOKINGS – https://improvcomedycagefight.rezdy.com/

VENUE WEBSITE – https://www.bankhotel.com.au/comedy/

 

 

 

Published by Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ''Australian Film Censorship Board'' true cinéaste versions of brand new release ''Cinematograph Films''. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ''red carpet Opening Night'' at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ''two house seats'' for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty's Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events. As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall. = = = ★★★★★ = = = Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ''Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week'', plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing. Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ''Software Design Project Manager'', PLUS each evening until quite late - - - Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant - product-placement consultant - mystery-shopper consultant - playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader - arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast - - - ★★★★★ LYNN BELVEDERE ★★★★★ - - - [usr 5] - - -