Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Fringe sensations Racing Minds are back after five sell-out years!
A doddery grandfather can't quite remember his ripping yarn, but with your help a mystery stuffed with hilarious characters, whip-smart wit and breathtaking twists will take hasty shape before your very eyes. Anything could happen, but excitement is guaranteed in this improvised comic adventure based entirely on audience suggestions!
Pleasance Queen Dome
11.55am
3rd-27th August 2018
Wantage (not just) Betjeman Literary Festival
Racing Minds bring an exclusive hour of improvised literary mischief to Wantage. Strap in for a riotous evening of comic stories, scenes, songs, poems and maybe even some Shakespeare, all made up on the spot based on your suggestions!
Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised @ Edinburgh Fringe
Racing Minds return to the Edinburgh Fringe for a 7th spectacular year!
Every day wild worlds of witty invention will be spun out of thin air (and audience suggestions) in the Pleasance Queen Dome at 11.50am.
Tickets on sale now (and selling fast)!
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Deer Shed Festival
Racing Minds return to family festival Deer Shed for a third year, bringing several shows and raucous workshops across the weekend.
Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised – Adelaide Fringe, Australia
Edinburgh Fringe sensations Racing Minds bring their show to Adelaide Fringe for the first time. A doddery grandfather can't quite remember his ripping yarn, but with your help a mystery stuffed with hilarious characters, whip-smart wit and breathtaking twists will take hasty shape before your very eyes.
Anything could happen, but excitement is guaranteed in this improvised comic adventure based entirely on audience suggestions!
Aaaand Now For... Kiddo Kaos! – Perth Fringe World, Australia
Racing Minds bring an extra-silly edition of their smash-hit improv – especially for young ‘uns! With the help of junior conspirators, these dashing British adventurers create an immersive mystery stuffed with hilarious characters and LOTS of daft jokes. Every show is different, with kids driving the plot! Expect entirely improvised mayhem!
Aaaand Now For... Kiddo Kaos! – Perth Fringe World, Australia
An extra-silly edition of the 2015 smash show – especially for young ‘uns! With the help of their junior conspirators, these dashing UK adventurers create an immersive mystery stuffed with hilarious characters and LOTS of daft jokes. Expect improvised mayhem!
Aaaand Now For Something Completely Wireless – Perth Fringe World, Australia
Acclaimed improvised comedy quintet Racing Minds, conjure, from nothing, a 50’s-style comic radio-play!
The show is an improvised homage to the adventurous radio theatres of yore and it's delighted live audiences in attendance and listeners to our podcast - we record every performance and release our favourites as a 'real' radio play to over 500,000 Soundcloud followers.
As a genuinely improvised piece, complete with plot-relevant news broadcasts and audience inspired songs, every performance is completely different and unique to that evening. Every show features a guest "Foley Artist" (local and international guests in Perth) and our experience and interplay as a group means there's no such thing as a boring show!
Old-fashioned microphones, sharp suits, greased hair... all the hallmarks of classic radio adventures with one unique twist: this time the audience is in charge.
Chris Turner: Observational Tragedy
Long-limbed award-winner tries to pin down the things that we should really let go. A comedy show with live instrumentation, emotional manipulation and 'truly masterful gags, crafted with intellectual panache’ (Chortle). There’ll be freestyles as well, but they’ll probably be quite sad.
Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised - Perth Fringe World, Australia
Edinburgh Fringe sensations Racing Minds are back in Perth after selling out in 2015! A doddery grandfather can't quite remember his ripping yarn, but with your help a mystery stuffed with hilarious characters, whip-smart wit and breathtaking twists will take hasty shape before your very eyes.
Daniel Nils Roberts: Honey
An explosion of gag-stuffed sketches and unhinged characters from this mischievous man-child.
Fresh from adorning critically-acclaimed UK improv sensations Racing Minds and Austentatious with his whip-smart wit, Daniel’s going it alone with a thunderbolt of daft and electrifying comedy curveballs.
High-octane character creations, PowerPoint in meltdown, bears and yoghurt collide in this hit show freshly adapted from the Edinburgh Fringe.
“Sheer genius... One to watch, most definitely” ★★★★ (The Scotsman).
3-6 February:
8.50pm, Hokkien House @ Noodle Palace
11-14 February:
8.40pm, Square Room @ Midlandia
Racing Minds present Unscripted!
British improv stars Racing Minds bring a unique and daring comedy extravaganza to Maylands!
Each show features guest performers from the pick of the Fringe to ensure a truly unrepeatable experience – with not a script in sight!
Whip-smart wit, hilarious characters, edge-of-your seat adventures and more!
28th January - 16th February
(Dates and Times vary)
The Haircut; or, The Barbershop Duet
Chris Turner and Alice Winn abuse their psychic link for your amusement. Quirk-packed characters, quotable one-liners and sepia-tinged vignettes tumble out of this completely improvised exploration of everyday conversation.
Weathering an hour of tedious smalltalk, a visit to the hairdressers can be a conversational chore. From this point, UK improvisers Alice Winn and Chris Turner unravel and reweave a whole host of memorable characters, imagined environments and poignant tales in a high-wire hour of unscripted comedy.
London – Aces & Eights, Tufnell Park
Four back-to-back recordings of our brand new audio series, totally free!
The show is called 'Writer's Block' and each episode will last around 40 minutes. We can't tell you much more than to say it's a wonderfully silly hybrid of our podcasts and live shows, with all the Racing Minds madness that you (and we) know and love.
Doors open at 5.30pm, and we'll be recording FOUR EPISODES at each show:
Episode 1: 6pm - 6.45pm
Episode 2: 7pm - 7.45pm
Episode 3: 8.30pm - 9.15pm
Episode 4: 9.30 - 10.15pm
You can come to as many as you like, and the venue serves great pizza to keep you going. Even better, it's free admission! ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Please do spread the word far and wide, bring a friend, bring your family - the more the merrier! We can't wait to see you there!
London – Aces & Eights, Tufnell Park
Four back-to-back recordings of our brand new audio series, totally free!
The show is called 'Writer's Block' and each episode will last around 40 minutes. We can't tell you much more than to say it's a wonderfully silly hybrid of our podcasts and live shows, with all the Racing Minds madness that you (and we) know and love.
Doors open at 5.30pm, and we'll be recording FOUR EPISODES at each show:
Episode 1: 6pm - 6.45pm
Episode 2: 7pm - 7.45pm
Episode 3: 8.30pm - 9.15pm
Episode 4: 9.30 - 10.15pm
You can come to as many as you like, and the venue serves great pizza to keep you going. Even better, it's free admission! ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Please do spread the word far and wide, bring a friend, bring your family - the more the merrier! We can't wait to see you there!
Lincoln – Performing Arts Centre
Improv comedy stars Racing Minds (“clever, funny and satisfying” – The Sunday Times, as heard on BBC 6 Music) bring a unique and daring comedy extravaganza to Lincoln once a month.
Whip-smart wit, hilarious characters and edge-of-your seat adventures are conjured up from devilish audience suggestions by these award-nominated multiple-Edinburgh Fringe-sellouts.
Every month features a different star guest act from the UK improv scene to ensure a truly unrepeatable night – with not a script in sight!
Show: 8pm
Tickets: £8
Age: 16+.
Box Office: 01522 837600
Brighton – Komedia
We return to Brighton Komedia every Sunday for a double bill of our smash-hit Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised show, as well as a second half of rotating comedic delights!
Brighton – Komedia
We return to Brighton Komedia every Sunday for a double bill of our smash-hit Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised show, as well as a second half of rotating comedic delights!
Lincoln – Performing Arts Centre
Improv comedy stars Racing Minds (“clever, funny and satisfying” – The Sunday Times, as heard on BBC 6 Music) bring a unique and daring comedy extravaganza to Lincoln once a month.
Whip-smart wit, hilarious characters and edge-of-your seat adventures are conjured up from devilish audience suggestions by these award-nominated multiple-Edinburgh Fringe-sellouts.
Every month features a different star guest act from the UK improv scene to ensure a truly unrepeatable night – with not a script in sight!
Show: 8pm
Tickets: £8
Age: 16+.
Box Office: 01522 837600
Brighton – Komedia
We return to Brighton Komedia every Sunday for a double bill of our smash-hit Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised show, as well as a second half of rotating comedic delights!
Lincoln – Performing Arts Centre
Improv comedy stars Racing Minds (“clever, funny and satisfying” – The Sunday Times, as heard on BBC 6 Music) bring a unique and daring comedy extravaganza to Lincoln once a month.
Whip-smart wit, hilarious characters and edge-of-your seat adventures are conjured up from devilish audience suggestions by these award-nominated multiple-Edinburgh Fringe-sellouts.
Every month features a different star guest act from the UK improv scene to ensure a truly unrepeatable night – with not a script in sight!
Show: 8pm
Tickets: £8
Age: 16+.
Box Office: 01522 837600
Brighton – Komedia
We return to Brighton Komedia every Sunday for a double bill of our smash-hit Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised show, as well as a second half of rotating comedic delights!
Edinburgh Fringe
Two-time sellout smash 'Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised' returns!
A doddery grandfather can't quite remember his ripping yarn, but with your help a mystery stuffed with hilarious characters, whip-smart wit and breathtaking twists will take hasty shape before your very eyes. Anything could happen, but excitement is guaranteed in this improvised comic adventure based entirely on audience suggestions!
5th-31st August
Pleasance Queen Dome
Tickets on sale now!
Deer Shed Festival
Racing Minds return to this feast of family fun in North Yorkshire for three shows (plus some knockabout workshops).
Evesham - Evesham Arts Centre
Edinburgh preview double bill with our own resident gagsmith Chris Turner spinning his new hour alongside a full Racing Minds adventure.
Brighton - Komedia
Edinburgh preview double bill with our own resident gagsmith Chris Turner spinning his new hour alongside a full Racing Minds adventure.
Brussels - Théâtre de la Toison d’Or
“Belgium Vs England” - what a game you wanna say ? That’s right ! When the crazy, imaginative and absurd British meet the surrealistic and creative Belgians, it leads undoubtedly to fireworks. To represent England, let’s meet the Racing Minds, a long-form improv quintet, formed in 2010 and has met success 2 years in a row at world famous Edinburgh Comedy festival. For Belgium, we will have spectacular members of the professional Belgian improv League. Two teams, one stage and themes given by the public, that’s going to be some serious crazy stuff. Be sure to be there to cheer for your favourite team.
Brighton - Off The Cuff's Battle Royale, The Basement
Racing Minds lock horns with Brighton improv stalwarts for the ultimate honour in improv!
In long-form and short; in game, sketch and song; in categories arbitrary and elastic: the two plucky troupes will battle for silliness supremacy. And you, the audience, will not only influence everything with your suggestions; you will also be the judge.
Venue: The Pit
And Now For Something Completely Wireless - Perth Fringe World
Our hit improvised radio play returns for a unique Australian run!
Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised - Perth Fringe World
We take our sellout show to Perth, Australia!