The School of Night
20 years ago, The School of Night made its first appearance at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, a madcap alchemical dream, cooked up by legendary theatre maverick Ken Campbell.
The School’s unique and hilarious brand of literary improvisation has since been seen at the Royal Court, the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, the British Library, and festivals and theatres across the UK and beyond.
In 2026, the School is thrilled to be back at Park Theatre for two wild evenings of skits, poems and songs all inspired by audience suggestions, culminating in the creation of a brand-new Shakespearean masterpiece…
The School of Night in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19.00
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Duration
110 mins (incl. 20 min interval)
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Tickets
£15
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Genre
One-off events
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Age guidance
12+
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Content warnings
Contains strong language.
Gallery
"Uproarious, intelligent, laugh-a-minute fare"
The Telegraph
"These improvisers are undoubtedly masters of their craft"
WhatsOnStage
"Fearsomely able improvisers"
The Financial Times
"The Bard has never been so much fun"
Three Weeks
Cast & Creatives
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Dylan Emery
Cast and Producer
Dylan Emery
Cast and Producer
Dylan has been performing, teaching and directing improvised theatre and comedy for more than 20 years. He is the co-creator of Olivier-award winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (www.showstopperthemusical.com) and a co-founder of the improvised sketch group Grand Theft Impro (www.grandtheftimpro.com) as well as being a member of The School of Night.
He appears regularly in London’s glittering West End, has performed at The National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Bristol Old Vic and many times at the Edinburgh Fringe; he has performed for various TV and radio programmes and hosted the BBC Radio 4 series of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical.
He primarily trained under Alan Marriott and Ken Campbell.
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Alan Cox
Cast
Alan Cox
Cast
Alan Cox is an actor, improviser, director and teacher. After training at LAMDA, he spent several years with the RSC, National Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre. Recent work includes: In The Print (King’s Head), The Gang Of Three (King’s Head), Churchill in Moscow (Orange Tree), My Fair Lady (Frinton), Farm Hall (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Take The Rubbish Out Sasha (Finborough), Uncle Vanya (Hampstead), Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre of Washington), Opening Skinner’s Box (Improbable), The Divided Laing (Arcola). He has toured the US in The Caretaker, Frost/Nixon and Translations. He has been a regular collaborator with Howard Barker and The Wrestling School.
Alan is a regular participant in the Annual London 50 hour Improvathon, and has guested with Die Nasty in Edmonton, Alberta and Second City in Toronto. He has improvised across Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Poland, Ireland, and Canada. As a member of The School of Night: Improvised Shakespeare and other explorations he has played at the Edinburgh festival, the Milano Impro-Festival, Impro-Amsterdam, Edmonton Improvaganza, Latitude Festival, Bristol Jam, and at Elsinore Castle in Denmark. He has also directed at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York.
Film and TV work includes: The Man With The Plan, Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Say My Name, Contagion, Mrs. Dalloway, An Awfully Big Adventure, Young Sherlock Holmes, A Voyage Around My Father, The Odyssey, Midsomer Murders, Not only But Always, Housewife 49, The Good Wife, New Amsterdam, The Gold and Foundation.
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Oliver Senton
Cast
Oliver Senton
Cast
Oliver is a founder member of The School, and of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, and an associate of Slung Low. Recent theatre Includes: King Lear (RSC), Coriolanus (National Theatre), The Gifting (Leeds 2023), Philosophy of the World (In Bed With My Brother, Cambridge Junction) A Christmas Carol (RSC, Stratford), Beauty & The Beast (Rose Theatre Kingston) and Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo West End & UK Tour).
Also: All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC), Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales), The Mob (Orange Tree), The Scarecrow and his Servant (Southwark Playhouse), Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice (Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds), The Lady’s Not For Burning (Chichester), The Count of Monte Cristo (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Cosmic Trigger (Cockpit Theatre), The Tempest (Norfolk and Norwich Festival), Arsenic & Old Lace (Derby), Three Sisters (Harrogate), The Invention of Love (Salisbury), War Correspondents (UK Tour) and hundreds of improvised musicals with Showstopper! (and an Olivier award in 2016) .
He was in Daisy and Ken Campbell’s legendary 24-hour production, The Warp (1999-2000), has been a volunteer for the Scene & Heard children’s playwriting charity and has appeared in nearly 20 shows for Slung Low, including The Fairy Portal Camp (with the RSC), Flood (Hull City of Culture), Camelot: The Shining City (Sheffield Crucible), The White Whale (Leeds) and most recently All The Joy That You Can Wish, the opening ceremony of the Shakespeare North Playhouse.
TV/Film Includes: Trigger Point, Call The Midwife, Wimbledon, Should We Bomb Auschwitz?, Frankie & Emma, White Heat, Doctors, EastEnders, Casualty, Hollyoaks, My Dad’s The Prime Minister, Nuremberg, Cathedral, Sink and Seagull.
Audio: Over 40 recordings, including Trials of the Century, The Sherlock Holmes Casebook, Miss Marple, Bomber, Ben Hur, Roads To Freedom, Journey To The Centre of the Earth, Trodd en Bratt Say ‘Well Done You’ (two series), Showstopper!, Doctor Who adventures for Big Finish, four Robert Anton Wilson books for Audible/Hilaritas Press. Game voices include: TroddAd Infinitum, Dying Light: The Beast & Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.
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Adam Meggido
Cast
Adam Meggido
Cast
Adam is co-creator/director of the Olivier award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. He is also the director of three other Olivier-nominated shows – Magic Goes Wrong (Mischief and Penn and Teller, West End and UK tour); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (West End, Broadway, UK tours, Italy, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Latvia – for which he was nominated as Best Director, Broadway, Drama Desk and Critics’ Circle Awards); and was Consultant Director on Mischief Movie Night (Arts Theatre and UK tour). Other directing credits include: Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend (Barn Theatre); The Gift (Park Theatre); Level Up (Seven Dials Playhouse); Boris III (Edinburgh Fringe). His musical Burlesque won 3 OFFIES including Best New Musical. He wrote for The Nevers (HBO/ITV); and created and curated the Terror Seasons (2004-2012 – Union Theatre, Wilton’s Music Hall Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Soho Theatre). He holds the world record for directing long-form improvisation, and his book Improv Beyond Rules is published by Nick Hern Books. He has written songs for Ant and Dec, ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent. He was Head of Foundation at LAMDA 20024-2014. He specialises in comedy, musicals, and improvisation, and has improvised all over the world including at: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre.
Insta: @ameggido
Website: adammeggido.com
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Sun 29 Mar 2026
7pm
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7pm
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