8th April 2018 - 6 pm
Victorian Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton
I booked Completely Improvised Potter as I was looking for something to see between the Little Dum Dum Club and Daniel Sloss. I'd also seen Completely Improvised Potter advertised in previous comedy festivals and not gotten around to seeing it.
While you're standing in line you're given a piece of paper to suggest a title for the show, around which the completely improvised show is created from.
Unfortunately my piece of paper 'Harry Potter and the Paradigm of Sheet Music' was not chosen.
I did think that piece of paper specifying that "we prefer [ideas] that are not based on pop culture or infringe on other copyright property" was a little cheeky as their logo they used for their "Harry Potter and the" on their bit of paper is very likely copyrighted or at least trademarked.
Everyone on stage is very capable improvisers, with some camping their performance up more than others, the camping up worked wonderfully evoking an almost panto quality to the performance.
There were some instances of various people prompting the story with a person entering and adding a random piece of information to the story or a "30 years ago..." segment to obviously give the performers something to add while prepping the next scene.
Also much praise to the lighting and music techs as those two elements really helped placing the story and setting things up with musical cues.
In about an hour a full story was told with convincingly performed characters, and a story that was as concise as a fan fiction tale, but told before you.
I would definitely have seen it again had I been able to get up to the MICF again. Every performance would be different and it would be intriguing to see how much it changed night after night.