Thank you! 💛
We did it! Thanks to everyone who was part of an amazing 12 hours of improv on Saturday. Here's to the next 10 years of being silly with kind, generous and talented folk x
Photos by Rhea Eris · Take It and Run Photography
Watch it back
Poet in Residence · Patrick Widdess
Ode to the Dogface Improthon 2026
We've gone from nothing to everything:
From the kingdom of squirrels
To the exotic dance of Butterkist popcorn,
To ladies in waiting:
The royal secret greeting
(It's all about the curtsy.)
In a little cabin in the woods
Scrabble and a glass of merlot
And new traditions
Subbuteo
Several involuntary snorts
Every kind of cereal
Riboflavin levels off the chart,
Never bothering about football, just lettuce.
We've been fence panels
Teeshirts who should've gone to Primark, a golf ball that wants to go into retail,
Filled our house with water for a budget beach holiday,
Got doused in frozen peas.
How do we get from building castles from humous,
Sword fighting with Michael, an Arc de Triumph bookshelf,
To the last one standing at a speed dating massacre
Springs for our knees, raised by a mum with wooden arms?
Is it because we were raised by Auntie Beeb, suckled from her teet?
Maybe it's having lots of cupboards of nice things
And nice people to unpack them who believe us when we say
I love Fredrich almost as much as my other children,
I became a pig because I ate too many Frazzles,
I've lost my penguin.
It's about connection whether you're on a desert island
Or digging up treasure, having the courage to face
David Attenborough the most evil ghost pirate you've ever known
Absorbing the works of the great bard:
I a top do go from side to side I saw some fool a walking on his hands
This is Roman times, no Heimlich was there then
Beware when the shrubberies come to your home
What play is that from?
We are united in our quest to push boundaries
Venture into the castle stationery cupboard
Hunt the elusive black radish
Slide down the stairs on our our bums,
Slide down the walls on our bums,
Slide down the curtains on our bums,
Get drunk at Cape Canaveral
Suck up the spaghetti
Get tickets for the Ting Tings in Tottenham
Find new language:
Uuh uuuh m m m m m m
No one's used the word vagina in 10,000 years.
Translate poetry on the jealousy of the cashew nut.
We've been doing this for twelve hours
We've been doing this for ten years
Doing things we've never done before
Seeking the secret to long life and health
Discovering that skips are sexy
Snails are rarely embraced
There are plenty of beautiful people working in radio
But we can't name them.
We've sung new songs:
Egg sandwich
I've lost my pelican
I really like hinges they're so beautiful
Pedestrian blues
The do ron ron ron, the do ron ron.
And yes, there's always one more thing
Another drop inside the bottle
As I was saying
You should have seen him with a squigee.
How do I finish when there's always another scene,
More characters in the wings waiting
To exist before disappearing like clouds or mist.
And you the audience calling for scenes
On Jenga, watermelons, the sun, diamonds, shells, alien goop - has this happened to you?
It will happen somehow, somewhere when someone demands it
With cries of Jennifer! My laminator
No, you can't put that there!
Come and join me in the washing machine
Marry me!
So pucker up your mutt mug, put a smile on your canine visage
Throw your paws in the air for Dogface!
The line-up
Every team that performed, in order →
Dogface Improv · Norwich