L-R: Ruth Bratt, Dylan Emery, Sally Hodgkiss, Phil Whelans.
Friday July 18 2025, 2000hrs
at
Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
It’s our last show at Hoopla before the August summer-break when GTI goes and stays with the parents of a French impro group while they come and live here and laugh at us for Brexit. Come and see GTI in some excellent company as we share the night with an air-conditioner and the brilliant Dreamweaver Quartet.
GTI will be…
Ruth Bratt – TV includes People Just Do Nothing, Ricky Gervais’s Derek, Mongrels, Vic Reeves’s The Ministry of Curious Stuff, Fast and Loose and Sky’s Cinderella: After Ever After. On the radio, she was Marion in BBC Radio 4’s Sarah Millican’s Support Group and had her own BBC Radio 4 series, Trodd en Bratt: Well Done You. Ruth is in Olivier Award-winning West End, Edinburgh and Radio 4 hit, Showstopper and is a core member of the world-famous Comedy Store Players.
Dylan Emery is co-founder of Olivier Award-winning West End, Edinburgh Festival and BBC Radio 4 Impro Hit, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, Ken Campbell-inspired hard-bardics masterclass, the School of Night and Grand Theft Impro. He has performed at the National Theatre, The Royal Court and Shakespeare’s Globe.
Sally Hodgkiss is an award-winning actor, writer and comedian. Her acting career has taken her to the Manchester Royal Exchange, Sheffield Crucible, Octagon Theatre Bolton and HOME among others. She’s been in Eastenders and in James Veitch’s Super Hyper Literal. She’s improvised with, among others, Whose Line is it Anyway? Live, The Comedy Store Players, Bumper Blyton and The Committee.
Phil Whelans – writer and performer of his own Radio 4 sitcom, My First Planet, founder member of Pros from Dover – with whom he did two series of Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage. Phil has worked with everyone from Joan Rivers to Basil Brush, Al Gore to Brian Conley, Robin Williams to Giles Brandreth. Phil has been in It’s Kevin, Brasseye, Preston Front and a number of unsuccessful radio and TV impro pilots. He has improvised all over the world, is founder member of Spontaneous Combustion and Grand Theft Impro, has been in Showstopper: the Improvised Musical, Hamlet Improvised and Criminal and was a Monkey Toast player.
Improvising music will be the excellent Richard Baker.