The Cup Match wickets may have been put away until next year, but the trash talk isn’t quite over yet.Bermuda’s first improvised comedy Cup Match will take place at the Daylesford Theatre tomorrow. Two teams, St Gorgeous and SomeRphat, will compete for the audience’s laughter.Improvised comedy is a type of theatre without scripts, props or costumes. All of the scenes are invented on the spot, based on suggestions received from the audience. The performers must make up their own characters, settings and plots without any time to plan. To add to the fun, performers will be given challenges throughout the show, such as being forced to speak gibberish or to perform in slow motion.The show will include improv teacher Toby Butterfield and several of her students and former students including Christopher Dye, Spencer Quarterly, Adrian Lynch and others.“I started back as a student at McGill University in Canada,” said Mr Dye. “A lot of universities have improv clubs. We invited some of the university clubs from Canada and the United States to come and join us for an improv competition.“We thought this was a fun format and we have been doing improv competitions at McGill ever since. Through Toby’s classes and workshops offered by BMDS, a group of people interested in improv has come together. We thought it might be fun to have an improv competition here and maybe do regular shows.”Mr Quarterly, who works in finance by day, said he had been involved in improv for several years.“I went to one of Toby’s classes as something to try, and got bitten by the bug,” he said. “I have been doing improv more than five years now. I have been on stage doing other things. I used to be a musician. I am absolutely looking forward to this.”There are no rehearsals, sets or props except for some bells and air horns; the players have been getting together regularly to hone their improv skills.“We get together and try to do the scenes and learn how to work together on stage and how to react in funny ways and have big expressions,” he said. “We have to learn how to relax on stage and riff off of each others’ ideas. We never know exactly what we are going to say, but we have an idea of how someone might react when one of us says something.”Ms Butterfield said that in some ways it was more sport than theatre she compared it to playing basketball.“In basketball, you don’t know what will happen during the game, but you still come together for practice,” she said. “In the class we practice to keep working on our comedy muscles and our instincts and hopefully on the day something funny will happen.“This improv group has organised itself in the last year. We are excited to be in a proper theatre. There hasn’t been much live improv in Bermuda for years. We are hoping that this will intrigue the public. We don’t know when we are next going to do a show.”She hoped that with the audience’s participation there would be the full raucousness of Cup Match with people “whooping and hollering”. Audience members were encouraged to wear their Cup Match colours and to bring their flags.At the end of each scene, the audience will vote on which team they think is funnier as a means of scoring runs.Improv comedy was popularised in the 1990s by the television show, ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’. It also inspired comedy shows such as ‘The Office’, ‘Parks and Recreation’, and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’.The show is at 8pm tomorrow night at Daylesford Theatre. Tickets, $15, are available at www.bmds.bm/improv or at the door. All proceeds will go to the BMDS Charitable Trust, which supports youth performing arts education.“Unlike Cup Match, it starts on a Thursday and ends on Thursday,” said Ms Butterfield. “It might be a draw but we hope it won’t be.”