special delivery
Do The Right Scene's and Hoopla's monthly show for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic improvisers! Now performing WEEKENDS on Hoopla's main-stage!
Hoopla and the Do The Right Scene team bring you Special Delivery, a monthly night showcasing the best Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic improvisers and comedians in London!
Do The Right Scene are a fast-paced improv group comprised of Black improvisers, sketch performers, stand-ups and character comedians with credits on Radio 4, Comedy Central, BBC 3 and BBC1.
They are joined each month by special guests comprised of London’s best Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic improvisers and the Crash Landing Improv team made of newcomers from the DTRS improv workshop that day – a baptism by fire!
This has been running for almost 5 years and is part of Hoopla and Do The Right Scene’s ongoing drive to improve the numbers of black, asian and minority ethnic people in improv and comedy.
Regular performers include Monica Gaga (Hoopla’s main-stage host), Tai Campbell (BBC Comedy Writer’s Room Winner) and Athena Kugblenu (BBC New Comedy Award Finalist) and students and teachers from across Hoopla’s courses.
This is more than just a show. The team have built up an entire community of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic improvisers that are now connecting to the wider comedy and TV industry. This includes recent BBC3 sketches written, directed and starring Tai Campbell from the Do The Right Scene and filmed at Hoopla that have received millions of views and fantastic reviews.
Many of the performers at Do The Right Scene and teachers with Crash Landing workshops have credits writing and performing on BBC1, BBC3, Radio 4, The Guilty Feminist, TED talks and more.
Hoopla work with the team and community to help cast all of our shows across all of our nights and to recruit teachers to bring greater diversity to the wider improv scene.
I love improv, but it needs shaking up. I see improv as something for everyone. So I would live if it truly represented a slice of society. If you don’t see yourself represented we need you!
DTRS at Hoopla are all super friendly; they make you feel instantly at ease and really included; if you're looking for a clique full of mean girls this is the wrong place. I felt completely supported on stage and there is a really different experience from performing with others from a similar background to you.
Stumbling upon a BAME improv night was encouraging as somebody new to the scene, as I was able to watch experienced performers who looked like me and whose content was often more relatable than the main circuit.
Do The Right Scene at Hoopla host one of the best comedy nights in London. The atmosphere onstage and off is always electric. It’s always a joy to perform alongside their stellar lineup of talented stand-ups and improvisers.
I've been going to DTRS at Hoopla for about a year and it is consistently one of the most welcoming places to perform and watch improv. I didn't know many Asian performers before joining and feel incredible comfort that there's a space for us too.
I can confidently attest to how much I’ve grown and how grateful I am for the friends I’ve made. Improv is transformative.
One drop-in class with Hoopla and four and a half years later I have gone from student to an improviser who performs with multiple groups.
I just think there’s something so special about these monthly nights that allow me to want to continue to perform improv.
Improv can be transformative and thanks to the work of a few dedicated black women, the scene is opening up and becoming more inclusive.
now performing weekends!
Do The Right Scene’s Special Delivery night is now officially a Hoopla main-stage Friday night show and will be performing monthly on Fridays.
Do The Right Scene is going mainstream!!!
upcoming shows
Dates: Monthly on Fridays plus additional shows each month.
Times: 8pm – 10pm. Doors open 7:45pm.
Ages: 18+
Venue: Hoopla at The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London Bridge, SE1 3SS.
Exact dates announced at our improv theatre page.
get involved!
For details of upcoming workshops and shows, and if you’re interesting in performing, please check out the Do The Right Scene social media or send them an email:
– Facebook: www.facebook.com/dotherightscene
– Instagram: www.instagram.com/dtrscomedy
– Twitter: www.twitter.com/dtrscomedy
– Email: [email protected]
Stumbling upon a BAME improv night was encouraging as somebody new to the scene, as I was able to watch experienced performers who looked like me and whose content was often more relatable than the main circuit.
My anxiety evaporated in that room. My stage fright transformed into excitement, and I became dynamic, more spontaneous. Happier.
I felt empowered and energised. So much so that I took the next course level and did my first public performance.
I can confidently attest to how much I’ve grown and how grateful I am for the friends I’ve made. Improv is transformative.
The supportive atmosphere ensures that even complete beginners will have the confidence to grow their skills
Hoopla's workshops are supportive and collaborative.
Improv can be transformative and thanks to the work of a few dedicated black women, the scene is opening up and becoming more inclusive.
In one class, I laughed so hard that I cried, full-on shaking with laughter, as tears streamed down my face.
The workshop really helps you internalise some of the skills we all know are important, like really listening, not dismissing others’ ideas out of hand and allowing yourself to speak up.
The black women transforming London's improv theatre scene.
The finest off-the-cuff troupes on the circuit.
Thanks for the workshop. All the feedback has been extremely positive! The team loved it!
I now regularly try to make room for improv and play time in my life. It is a bright spot when I am feeling beaten down by the everyday. The three hours of laughter do wonders for my stress levels, and afterwards I sleep without a care.
The capital’s best improv. The UK’s first improv comedy club.
If improvisation floats your boat you should head to Hoopla. There’s fewer better ways to see what spur-of-the-moment comedy London has to offer.
Signing up for improv classes helped my shyness to melt away.
Teaches the skills you’ll need to master scenes, stories and sketches in a relaxed environment.
Everywhere you look, huge grins suggest an enthusiasm and an attentiveness that is rarely seen in a course.