The full list of acts performing at this year’s Birmingham Improv Festival has been announced.  The schedule includes sketch shows, drama and musicals and more performances by local acts than ever before.

Highlights include:

• Showstopper, a musical kids show by the Olivier Award winners
• Murder She Didn’t Write, an Agatha Christie style murder mystery
• Impromptu Shakespeare, new comedy plays in the style of the Bard
• Notflix, an all-female musical show inspired by a movie title
• Happily Never After, the Tim-Burton-inspired fairytale horror show
• Jumprov, the UK’s first black & minority ethnic improv group
• Ten Thousand Million Love Stories, a duo who explore all aspects of love
• MC Hammersmith, improvised hip hop comedy

The festival is on Monday 23 – Sunday 29 October and will be held at The Blue Orange Theatre, Great Hampton Street.  Tickets start at £5 and are available from http://birminghamimprovfestival.com