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the hottest new improv festival in london

In May 2026 The Free Association launched Big Scene: 25+ shows across two venues, big headliners, international improv teams, the best of UK improv, and a mad night of karaoke.

Headliners

• Cook County Social Club
• Tennessee Williams Unscripted
• All Star Armando
• Mailbox #23
• Asian AF

opening london’s home for improv

Five days of home-grown talent from the London improv scene, to open The Free Association’s new 100-seat theatre in Southwark.

Festival highlights

• St Doctor’s Hospital
• This Doesn’t Leave the Room
• Fabled
• Heatwave
• Nana
• Starry Starry Eyes
• Kiel Smith-Bynoe & Jim Woods

ten years of the free association

A jam-packed five-day festival for the FA’s tenth birthday, with shows, performers and friends from right across the company’s history.

Festival highlights

• Will Hines
• Jim Woods
• Sarah Claspell (The Bozos, LA)
• Brian Jack (iO Chicago)
• Casey Faye (Holy Shit Improv, LA)
• Austentatious