Unhinged... and UnPerforming

Big Wednesday is alass No-More. The Group split a couple of months back after deciding that we had run our course. No don't blub... OK, blub a bit

So What Now?

Big Wednesday was just one of many groups performing in London. You can us ExBWers guesting left right and center around the city with Improvedy, Grand Theft Impro And workshopping at London Theatre Sports. More news as it happens...
November 2004

Big Wednesday...

Was one of Londons newest, yet mostly not performing any more, improvisational groups. The members all met at LTS (formerly London Theatre Sports) Londons longest running impro drop-in. Their backgrounds ranged from Stand-up to Mime and physical theatre.

More information

Please contact us as the very professional email address of hickslives@aol.com, with the words "Big Wednesday" in the subject, else we'll think it's filthy spam and throw it away.




Meet the (ex)performers

Jeanette Clarke

Made in Sunderland. Forged near the Fulwell End of Roker Park. Tempered by a Performance Arts Course in Choreography in the bosom of Middlesex University. Decimated by unmentionable years in an office. Excited by a decade as a semi-pro in the Tavistock Rep (Babes In The Wood to Berkoff) and... eventually... spat out, quivering, into the pulsating lap of Big Wednesday. Je ne regrette rien (Yet).


Jonathan Cobb

Jonathan was born, but only because his parent decided they wanted a child more than a coffee table. Acting success soon followed, his 'Widow Twanky' stole the show (Gloucester Citizen). Unable to take the pressure, he left the world of the performing arts and has only just returned. Nowadays, Jonathan leads a strange double life. By day he may be found in an airport lounge, a nuclear power plant or a Balinese beach. By night he leaves those things behind to take to the stage.


Miles Eagling

Miles Robert Frank Eagling is stunning. His biog over floweth from childhood chorister to University Musical Society Musical Director. From various impersonations of Noel Coward to Concerts at the Royal Academy of music. Every time you see that apology card on your television and voice over saying "We are sorry for the break in your programme, please listen some tedious music" that is Miles not doing his day job properly.


Suzy Harvey

Suzy Harvey trained at the Desmond Jones School of Mime and Physical Theatre, studied Performing Arts at Middlesex University and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Since graduating she has performed in film and theatre - no, nothing you've seen, but one day god damn it!
In her spare time Suzy makes voodoo dolls of freinds who have been more successful. She brings to the group talent, glamour and a huge mouth used to great effect in Godzilla impressions.


John Mawer

John Mawer has over eight year’s comedy experience. He has run comedy clubs in Covent Garden, Notting Hill and Islington and has taken two shows to the Edinburgh Festival (2000/03 - Gilded Balloon/Pleasance). As a stand-up comedian he has performed in numerous gigs and won a national competition. His leatherette codpiece has featured on Radio 4’s "Woman’s Hour". He has more hair than Moses. Many think he's a girl with a beard, others find that idea physically repugnant.


Zelah Meyer

Zelah is a Jack of all trades and a Master Practitioner of Clinical Hypnotherapy and NLP. She also does strange things with coloured bottles and occasionally talks about auras and other new-age stuff. Despite this, she's remarkably practical and down to earth. She loves singing, she once played the lead in South Pacific and had to have a cold shower live on stage every night. She also loves writing - songs, poems, plays, musicals, novels, sit-coms and screen-plays. One day she'll actually finish one of them and become internationally successful - until then she's a professional under-achiever, sorry - I mean a Temp."


James Nolan

Having failed as a rock star (Count Elvis and the Acolytes), James moved into improvisation (did not pass go, did not collect £200). If one word can be used to describe James, it's chirpy. Too bloody chirpy by half. Oh my god, he's so chirpy !! It must be the strain of his job - he works with computers. High Point - Winning the Schumaker Award when go-carting, for causing the biggest pile up. Low Point - This biography.


David Thorne

David, or "dig" to those in the know, began a chequered career writing, directing and performing in sketch shows and editing low-brow satirical magazines, before dabbling with serious dramatic roles (The Business of Murder, Come As You Are, Natural Causes, Isabeau). Realising he was crap at learning lines, he turned to improvisation for solace and has worked with Dead Puppies & LTS. Thinks he can sing, is often a "special feature" at weddings, though usually uninvited, and is justifiably proud of his collection of hats and weird props. To vote for him press 1 now.





Links

LTS (www.btinternet.com/~j.nolan/)

Formerly London Theatre Sports, regular weekly impro drop in.

Improvedy (http://www.improvedy.co.uk)

Weekly Friday night impro comedy from this group based near Leicester Square.

Grand Theft Impro (http://www.GrandTheftImpro.com)

An offshoot of the Crunchy Frog Collective, weekly thursday night impro in Londons racey Soho.

Impro UK Blog (http://impro.blog-city.com)

A great listing of London impro events.