Bollywood, Improv Comedy Mumbai at Impro2013, Berlin

You can't do everything in one evening, right? So I went to see Bollywood only on the second day and I already heard from others, what's it was going to be like. Maybe it was a mind trick, resulting from vivid imagination somewhat spoiled by the report of others, but I thought I saw some fake-ness on behalf of the Mumbai cast (the rest were trying to support them, fuck it up or both:). I don't mind, I mean, they're not that experienced yet, I guess, since it is hard to play the same show two (three*) times two nights in a row. I know it's a format, but I personally think they let themselves surprise each-other too little. That creates the fun, doesn't it?

Suggestion for improvement: mix up the people who play the roles. The bollywood "archetype" roles can be the same, just shift the people. Then, or as a prelude, mix it even more: have the old ones play young characters, have women play men, etc. You know, keep it alive.

*On the same note, I am sorry to say that the re-enactment after the second Bollywood show at the Impro Berlin's own resident theatre (when everybody arrived from the Bollywood show arrived, thus the Bollywood part 3) was just lame. I mean, was OK, but .. I've just seen it. And so have, in a way, the people from the previous night.
I wonder how many people that leaves, that were genuinely seeing it for the first time?


To be true, i just read a different review of the show on Impro2013's page and it does paint a vivid and colourful picture in my head. In retrospective (the above was written in March earlier this year), the show was quite OK, but with the fake-ness, resulting, I judge, from too little role variation, still lingers in my head.

Links: Impro Comedy Mumbai; Impro Berlin Festival; Gorillas.