Claqueur Impro

16/11/2025

🍎Tickets for our Forest Row performances on 20/21December go on sale next week! Thursday 20 November 9am to be exact!
🍏We're busy rehearsing in new cast members and learning new music and can't wait to be on stage again!
🍎See you soon!

21/08/2025

Maryjane Stevens and I have been commissioned by West Kent Mind to run a 6 month creative arts course (2 hours a week) for migrants and refugees. The Migrants' Table starts October 2nd 2025 and runs to March 26th 2026. It's free and open to migrants, refugees, agency workers, and volunteer supporters of refugees. If you are interested you can register on West Kent web site (see below) please share or send to people you know who might like to take part.
We are want to create a legacy for this course so are preparing a migrant interactive community play for inclusive perticipation to be performed in Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Sevenoaks. If you are interested let me know. WATCH THIS SPACE
https://westkentmind.org.uk/.../crea.../the-community-table/
THE MIGRANTS TABLE
A Creative Arts Course
About the Course
Course Structure and Accessibility
The course is designed for migrants, agency workers, and support staff, offering a welcoming space for everyone to participate. Sessions take place every Thursday from 2 October to 18th December 2025, and resume from 9th January to 26th March 2026, from 12.30 pm to 2.30 pm.
Creative Assignments and Approach
Participants will engage in creative assignments meant to ignite inspiration and encourage the design of their own activities. These exercises are intended to solve problems, foster meaningful connections, and enhance everyday life. The course emphasises breaking free from habitual patterns to build empathy and creativity, encouraging new perspectives on the world.
Learning Outcomes
Through active participation in the creative process, individuals will develop skills to navigate the modern world with agility, resilience, and imagination. The programme encourages curiosity, helping participants discover their creativity, inventiveness, and improvisation skills.
Collaboration and Self-expression
The group will learn effective collaboration, creating a safe, supportive environment where everyone can stretch their imagination without fear of failure or judgment—including from themselves. The ultimate goal is for each participant to find their unique voice and share it confidently with others.
Course Themes and Artistic Expression
While migration is a recurring theme—exploring notions of home, journeys, and experiences of displacement—many assignments will focus on generating ideas personal to each participant. Expression will be invited through drawing, making, writing, painting, food, movement, improvisation, and the individual skills and interests that participants bring to the group.
REGISTER FOR THE COURSE WITH WEST KENT MIND
To register a place on the course, click the link below (or copy and paste to google search)
https://westkentmind.org.uk/.../crea.../the-community-table/
The course will be led by Jon Oram and Maryjane Stevens. Jon is artistic director of Claque Theatre, a company that founded the community play, he has produced, directed or written over forty of them across Britain, in Canada, USA and Europe, involving literally thousands of people. He is also a leading improvisation teacher. Maryjane is a dramaturg, director, producer with a wealth of participative arts experience, she’s a trained drama teacher and multi disciplined community artist and performer. She and Jon are both improvisors with Claqueur impro theatre and perform fully improvised plays.

22/06/2025

These are a couple of sketches of Claqueur Impro performers practicing play in the moment last Tuesday, I can’t say rehearsing because we are not repeating but discovering a new play every time, we never know where they are going and always surprised where they take us. Every last Tuesday of the month anyone is welcome to come to Rusthall Club on St Paul’s street in Rusthall to watch a free play in practice at our club night. All we ask is some truthful feedback afterwards. Check out the Tunbridge Wells Fringe Festival for two Claqueur Impro shows July 1st and 4th. Visit the festival website twfringe.com/events/claqueurimpro for tickets and further information.

16/06/2025

Two actors enter an empty furnished with only three chairs. The actors have no ideas about what will happen until they see each other, assess their partner's shape, and posture assess their mood and the atmosphere in the room; only then they know what to do and how to respond to what is happening. This marks the beginning of a fifty it sixty minute moment-by-moment discovery of an unfolding narrative. The actors do not plan; they simply react to each moment. This is improvised play without the safety net of a predetermined script.

Attend a performance and experience the pleasure of discovery. Each show is unique, never seen before, never to be repeated. Every evening presents a distinct, one-off play. You can find out more about play in the moment on our website www.claqueurimpro.com

16/06/2025

Two actors enter an empty furnished with only three chairs. The actors have no ideas about what will happen until they see each other, assess their partner's shape, and posture assess their mood and the atmosphere in the room; only then they know what to do and how to respond to what is happening. This marks the beginning of a fifty it sixty minute moment-by-moment discovery of an unfolding narrative. The actors do not plan; they simply react to each moment. This is improvised play without the safety net of a predetermined script.

Attend a performance and experience the pleasure of discovery. Each show is unique, never seen before, never to be repeated. Every evening presents a distinct, one-off play. You can find out more about play in the moment on our website

Following a Claque Theatre production of the Tunbridge Wells community play The Vanishing Elephant in 2009, I started an improvisation workshop group based in Tunbridge Wells. Around 2015 some...

07/06/2025

A premier play every time. Spontaneous authentic theatre, a shared experience in which the audience discover the play with the actors, moment by moment as it unravels. Four actors enter the stage with no prepared plot, characters or dialogue, they know nothing until they look at each other and then they discover everything. Unlike a lot of impro shows they do not ask the audience for suggestions they trust them to accept this is all made up on the spot. Claqueur are less interested in proving they are improvising than giving the audience genuine theatre experience. Will it be a drama or a comedy we won’t know till it starts all they can promise is the thrill of the unexpected. Get your tickets now.

31/05/2025

Bringing our Play in th Moment to the Tunbrudge Wells Fringe - developing improvised plays over the last few years. Hope some of you can get along. Get your tickets now. Take a look at our new website for more information
Claqueur impro.com

24/09/2024

Our planned Club Night (tonight at the Rusthall Club) has had to be cancelled as Jon is unwell. Apologies for any inconvenience. See you soon.

27/08/2024

Don't be at a loose end tonight. Join us. We'd love to see you.

Enjoy a pre-show drink with the shenanigans staring at 7.30pm. One of our series of informal workshop performances. (Don't worry no participation required.)

10/07/2024

Look we know it (almost) clashes with the football, but this was arranged months before England even looked like qualifying, let alone scraping into the semis.
Think of it as a gentle warm-up to the game (or even a chance to miss it completely by staying on for a drink and a chat afterwards). Tickets from twfringe.com/events/play-in-the-moment/
or on the door.
The Old Auction House, Linden Park Road TN2 5QL
TODAY (10th July) 7pm.

Three chairs on an empty stage, improvisor actors walk out with no prepared characters, dialogue or plot and create a complete play. A different story emerges each time.Six or seven actors working in pairs or threes.