Tom Tollenaere

Tom Tollenaere is an improviser and improv musician, who has been training and coaching improvisers abroad and in his home country of Belgium since 1999. He’s the founder and artistic director of RIOT – the Royal Improphonic Orchestra & Theatre, specializing in musical long-form improv theatre. Between 1999 and 2005 he was artistic director for The Lunatics, one of Belgium’s oldest short-form collectives, performing with them as an improv actor from 1997-2006. He likes to teach and theorize about Narrative long-form and musical improv, both long & short, writes a blog about Improv on tomsimprovpages.wordpress.com and is a guest blogger for the Dutch improblog.nl.

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L’Histoire dont Vous êtes le Héros

Soyez les héros de nos histoires !

Et si, l’espace d’un soir, c’était vous les héros de leur histoire ? Quatre comédiens et vous, public. En début de représentation, les improvisateurs viendront à votre rencontre afin que vous soyez leur inspiration pour l’histoire qui s’écrira ce soir là. Votre prénom, vos passions, l’un ou (…)

Chut

L’impro au-delà des mots

Quelques comédiens et un musicien. Au début de chaque scène, les comédiens dénués de la parole, brandissent des pancartes au public pour leur demander un mot, un lieu, un genre cinématographique,... Oscillant entre des univers poétiques, burlesques ou dramatiques, Chut remet à l’honneur le jeu (…)

House of Europe

Power. Intrigue. Bureaucracy.

The Eurobubble is a small village in a small city in a small country that rules an entire continent- or at least tries to. Some EuroBubblers want to make a difference, some want to make money, and some just want to make it to retirement. But in this game, whether the stakes are high or low, (…)

Ruby Rocket

She always gets her man. Until she doesn’t.

Ruby Rocket is an intoxicating, intoxicated private eye who always gets her man. Except, of course, when she doesn’t. Stacey Hallal stars as Ruby, weaving vivid noir storytelling, physical comedy, and multimedia imagery in this hilarious improvised show featuring a guest cast of Brussel’s top (…)