🎟️ Sofia International Improv Fest - 24-28 September 2025! 🎟️
This year's theme is "Pixels"
Bring a pixel and let's make art together!
👉DAY 1 - (Opening Night)
Tickets:
https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-1-opening-night-sofia-international-improv-fest-2025
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Big Bang Improv: Big Bang (USA)
Big Bang is a fast-paced free-form show featuring some of the top alumni from the Improv Boston Mainstage and Boston comedy scene. Since 2014, Big Bang has toured extensively across North America, Latin America and Europe.
⭐ShiZi Classes (Bulgaria)
A group of improvisers from the classes of ShiZi Improv Theater will perform an improvised 25 min. set.
⭐The Blue Couch: Somewhat Relatable (Germany)
The Blue Couch perform an Armando-inspired format, where actors share true-story monologues that spark a cascade of scenes. Each monologue fuels a playful, freeform exploration built on real moments and honest connection.
Intermission
⭐Inbal and Zlatin
Acting is reacting. This grounded show is based on the professional acting background of the improvisers and will be an emotional and real improv experience. It focuses on the true and slow discoveries of both characters and plot.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
Day 2:
Tickets:
https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-2-opening-night-sofia-international-improv-fest-2025
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Mixer Team - a warmup team from workshop participants
⭐Shizi Pro Team (Bulgaria)
⭐Loop Ladies: Scene by scene (Estonia)
In their improvised show inspired by audience suggestions, the Loop Ladies zoom in on one moment — like a digital image built pixel by pixel. First comes a quick 1-2 minute glimpse, then a fuller 4-5 minute replay, and finally a 16-minute deep dive where the real story unfolds. With each layer, the simple idea grows funnier, deeper, and more human — because every pixel counts.
Intermission
⭐Cardume: Insomnia (Portugal)
Cardume - Colectivo de Impro is a group of nine improvisers who have been creating and performing improvised theatre since 2015. Cardume is a constantly evolving project that brings together improvisers from different backgrounds and styles. Currently, they are the largest improv group in Portugal, which allows for the unique creation of complex, dynamic, and vibrant collective scenes, with multiple improvisers working in harmony on stage.
The name Cardume, meaning "school of fish" in Portuguese, perfectly embodies the essence of improvisation. Just like a school of fish moves as one, Cardume thrives on connection, trust, and collective creativity.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
Day 3:
Tickets:
https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-3-opening-night-sofia-international-improv-fest-2025
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Mixer Team - a warmup team from workshop participants
⭐Improchilli: Chilli Bits (Romania)
Chilli Bits is a show like a tiramisu. Simple, but containing something for everyone. It starts with an open discussion with the audience and continues with 30 minutes of characters, emotions and laughs. Do we promise an intellectual breakthrough or at least surprise at the end? No. But we promise relatable characters and unprecedented situations which will have you longing for more, even if not asking. Just like a tiramisu.
⭐Improduce Me Theatre: First Date (Bulgaria)
First Date is a fully improvised, interactive comedy show where real love stories meet theatrical chaos. We start with a single pixel - we invite a real-life couple from the audience to share the story of their very first date. We zoom in and out on every detail, moment in time, awkward pauses, sparks, surprises. Then we retell it through our own ridiculous lens.
Intermission
⭐Impro Neuf: Kaleidoscopes (Norway)
It’s the Edo-era Japan, the Industrial Revolution in England, the Kolkata bear market in 1982 or the post-Apocalypse real estate agents on Mars. Explore past and future eras and civilizations that no history books nor science fiction movies had shown you.
Inspired by David Mitchell's critically acclaimed novel Cloud Atlas, Kaleidoscopes is an epic improvised play across time. We embark on a journey through time - and make you laugh and reflect along the way at human’s follies and victories.
"The clouds being like souls and the breadth of humanity, all of the souls that are constantly shifting and changing through time. Clouds shift their color and size and shape and come back." -David Mitchell
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
Day 4 (Closing Night):
Tickets:
https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-4-opening-night-sofia-international-improv-fest-2025
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Mixer Team - a warmup team from workshop participants
⭐Alta sensibilidad: Truthful Dimension (Spain)
Witness a raw, unscripted encounter between two human beings. Emerging from Meisner's technique of repetition, we invite presence, honesty, and emotional depth into the stage. There’s no rush, no goal, no script; just a shared moment of presence that gently blurs the line between actors and characters in the real-time unraveling of an improv monoscene.
Let's explore radically honest improv together.
⭐Old Friends: Old Friends (UK)
Inspired by the Stephen Sondheim show Old Friends, which is a collage of characters from his greatest shows, and by our love of the improv game Hot Spot, Old Friends is a character and music led show that follows a gentle narrative thread. It’s a deep dive into characters who seem larger than life and also the person next door, showing the infinite complexity of the human experience. Even the seemingly most mundane characters carry a universe inside of them, accompanied by their own song.
Intermission
⭐Breakfast of Champions: Big Breakfast (UK)
Like a British Big Breakfast, the show comprises a delicious mix of improv ingredients – scene painting, monologues, character endowments, background work, edits, narrative jumps, etc. - to produce one large satisfying offer Like the classic English dish, it is a rich blend of many ingredients leading to a satisfying artistic experience.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
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