Oslo Impro Festival brings you Norway's biggest international festival for impro comedy and theatre — 8 days of of live, magical, unscripted performances in English — 18-25 October 2025 at Chateau Neuf.
Come learn new impro skills from 22 international teachers visiting Norway to perform at the festival!
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Narrative Building through Elements of Contact (New release!)
Monday, October 20, 2025
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
This workshop looks at the three forms of touch - bone to bone touch, muscle to muscle touch and skin to skin touch as a parallel for moments in narrative that are pure conflict, cooperation and forwarding and intimacy and softening, respectively. These build tools for evaluating what a particular scene needs at the moment. This is a narrative Building toolkit workshop that uses physical theatre, embodied practice and scene work.
Note from Organizer: This workshop involves physical contact of limbs, core and around the back. For a comprehensive learning, a decent amount of push and pull work using bodies, composition work using bodies and some amount of contact to experience the difference between bone to bone pressure, muscle to muscle pressure and skin to skin pressure is significant. You will not be asked for contact beyond your own boundaries.
Tickets:
https://improneuf.as.me/OIF25LaxmiNarrative
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Improvising an Amman Movie
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Improvising an Amman Story: Divine Drama and BDE: Big Divine EnergyThis workshop is all about stepping into the world of larger-than-life characters and epic supernatural stories. Inspired by the high-energy, dramatic Amman storytelling tradition, we’ll dive into scenes full of gods, curses, revenge, blessings, and divine intervention. You’ll create vivid, powerful characters and explore what happens when the human and the divine collide. Expect big emotions, intense stakes, and moments that shift from epic rage to sudden redemption.
Tickets:
https://improneuf.as.me/OIF25LaxmiAmman
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Momentum: Fartlek Improv
Friday, October 24, 2025
10:00 AM 5:00 PM
Fartlek Improv is a playful deep-dive into pacing, emotional depth, and scene building. Inspired by interval training, we’ll kick off with quick, one-minute scenes—fast, instinctive sprints—then expand them into ten-minute versions using the same starting and ending moments. Over six hours, we’ll build narrative muscles, explore character arcs, and find richness in simplicity. We’ll finish where we started—with that one-minute scene, now full of depth, rhythm, and connection. It’s improv training for storytellers who like to move.
Tickets:
https://improneuf.as.me/OIF25LaxmiFartlek
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by LAXMI PRIYA
India
About the Teacher:
Laxmi (she/her) is a theatre-based facilitator & Playback Theatre performer and has been improvising for a decade and half in and around Bangalore, India. She is currently a part of No Pressure Improv! - that is shaking up the Bengaluru improv scene with innovative programs and world class training modules. She has previously taught and performed at Amsterdam Improv Festival 2024 and been invited to teach at Oslo Improv Festival 2023. Trained in critical thinking, English Studied and interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, Laxmi has had a multifaceted career path as a SEO analyst, theatre-based corporate trainer and production manager. She loves to sleep.
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OSLO IMPRO FESTIVAL 2025
18-25 October 2025
Chateau Neuf
More info at the Oslo Impro Festival 2025 page:
www.osloimprofestival.com
Graphics & Design by Arthur Gil Larsen:
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