The idea is brilliant; a group of performers will improvise different sketches from the audience’s picks from this year’s Fringe Brochure. They will improvise them right there and then, and they will try to get the audience laughing at all times. Pity then that the final product doesn’t really measure up.
The problem is not with the performers, who are good, but with the fact that they have strong competition from other Improv shows who excel at their job. If you are going to see just one Improvisation Show, One Night Stand or The Oxford Imps will give you a good show for your money. Edinburgh Fringe Impro Show… lags behind..
With Improvisation one expects random storylines and some incongruence in the characters and situations, but what is quite unforgivable is that when creating a story characters change their characteristics halfway through just because it fits the narrative better. For example, in one of the stories there is a character who loves bunnies, but suddenly, after another character has said how much he hates them, she agrees with him for no apparent reason. If you make up something, stick with it, we don’t like to be cheated.
On the whole though, they do offer an hour of fun, and they have some cracking lines, it’s just that, at this year’s Fringe, there are far superior Improvisation shows out there.
3/5 
Adrian G. Velazquez
