Alcock Improv battled the snow and fog to take their show around the country, and they had a really good laugh doing it. Check out some descriptions of the shows below, and make sure you examine a few photos from the tour. Thanks to everyone who came to see us, and especially thanks to all those who helped us do it. You know who you are...

Cambridge	9/3	Colerigde Room, Jesus College - 9pm - £2	Home territory - come and see us where it all began
Bristol	17/3	Mackay Theatre, Bristol Grammar School - 8pm - £2	Where Will grew up, which was't that long ago really
Manchester	18/3	Council Chambers, Students' Union - 7.30pm - £2.50	Alcock are braving the cold
Grantham	19/3	Kings School, Main Hall - 7.30pm - £2	Where Tom grew up, many, many hundreds of years ago. We're so nice we even taught some workshops for kids here!
Sheffield	20/3	Sheffield Hallam Student Union - 8pm - £2	Climbing capital of the world. Apparently.

 

Cambridge - Jesus College

Ever had to see your sister who's a doctor for some... awkward medical treatment? Ever found yourself without a shoe in the middle of the Sahara, then wondered what the Sphinx does on its day off? Buried many journalists in your pile of broken bottles recently? Alcock Improv did...
'In-joke': Lucie was so ill that she had to sit the last game out and went straight to bed after the show! That's professionalism!

Bristol - Mackay Theatre

Surrounded by Will's old teachers and friends, Alcock rose to the occasion and, having been stuffed full of lasgna, somehow managed to put together an evening of Welsh forensic anthropologists, interviews with Arnie and whole lot more besides. Afterwards, those lucky enough to pass the stringent resrictions of the Highbury Vaults pub taught Mark about 'Wagglepop' beer...
'In-joke': Tom tried to get Mark back for a prank at 1am by dressing as some kind of banana, but then had to hide in a cupboard because Will's mum wondered what all the noise was...

Manchester - Council Chambers, Student Union Building

Some were confused as to what the Gilbert and Sullivan society were doing housing an evening of improvised comedy, perhaps rightly so. But a swift trip to the Britney Spears mortuary, a re-telling of history in which Copernicus invented a steam-powered ship (because Will couldn't remember what he actually did) and a flight on Ben's pink Scissor Sisters hang-glider put everyone at ease.
'In-joke': Having had a dinner of kebab, we all decided to have a post-drink celebration by having another kebab. And please don't get us started on what we did with the 'diving reflex' bin - nights out are... interesting with Alcock.

Grantham - King's School

A vast stage was mopped up by yet another sterling performance from Alcock, involving a gangster with a hair obssession, a kidnapped cross-dressing Prince Charles and a wonderful piece of Christian rock performed by Stalin, in order to further Communist ideals. Ahem. We taught the kids a few things in two workshops the next morning, and (perhaps because most of them hadn't been tarnished by watching us the night before) they were actually really rather good.
'In-joke': Us? Alcock Improv? Staying up until 2am singing show-tunes around Tom Hensby's piano? With South Africans accents? With our reputation?

Sheffield - Students' Union, Pod C

Rammed into what looked like a left-over from a sci-fi film, Alcock tried their best to amuse the locals and we'd like to think we did quite well. As well as helping Will 'Power' get his election message across through the medium of porn, we demonstrated to all those present the importance of being polite to spirits conjured from the realm of Scalextric and why lawyers should always be present at any major surgical event.
'In-joke: A night finishing at 4am, followed by a 7.30am start for a 8.30am drive for a 2.30pm bus for a flight to Namibia proved a little too much for some members of the group...