Real Positive Poles

Real Positive Poles are a group of award winning Bristol based improvisers with a passion for big ideas and science fiction. We take inspiration from your favourite shows to create brand new episodes based on audience suggestions. 

Our main show is “After Dusk: The Improvised Twilight Zone.” A dive into the the audience’s imagination in the style of The Twilight Zone, the 1960’s forerunner to Black Mirror. Sometimes dark, often mysterious and always fun!

We have performed at the Edinburgh, Brighton & Swindon Fringe Festivals as well as all over Bristol including at the Old Vic, in the crypt of St John and the Bristol Improv Theatre.

Praise for After Dusk: The Improvised Twilight Zone

Winner of The Brighton Seagull’s Best Improvised Show Award and top 3 shortlisted for the Best Show in all categories by The Reviews Hub at the Brighton Fringe 2022.

★★★★★ – The Reviews Hub

★★★★ – Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe

“absolutely perfect improv” – Starburst Magazine

“incredibly funny and intensely engaging” – The Brighton Seagull

“a beautiful demonstration of everything that improvised performance can be” – The Reviews Hub

“Quirky, offbeat and hilarious” – Swindon Fringe Review

If you’re interested in booking us then contact us at realpositivepoles [at] gmail.com

Other shows

We love to stretch our improv muscles into a variety of different genres. Other shows we have created are:

  • Spon Trek: The Next Improvisation is a big, silly parody of Star Trek taking a suggestion of the episode title the audience always wanted to see and creating completely from scratch!
  • The Y Files is a mysterious peer into a filing cabinet full stuffed to the brim records of the peculiar, the unexplained and the downright paranormal. Full of questions but there’s only one that really matters: do you want to believe?
  • Storm Compass is what happens when you take the sprawling 3 hour sci-fi epic that is Cloud Atlas and condense it down into just 45 minutes. We follow one theme through different characters born across time.

All our shows are designed to be suitable for all levels of knowledge about the source material, including none at all!

TONIGHT we are back at @wednightimprov alongside two other brilliant acts! Filed mistakenly under E for Mystery: unscripted episodes of the television anthology known as The Twilight Zone. Two weeks to go until we are back at @wednightimprov with our anthology of unusual tales accompanied by a live violinist TONIGHT After Dusk returns to the improv spotlight! Got plans for spooky season? Three weeks to go until we return to one of our favourite evenings @wednightimprov alongside @birdwatchersimprov and @pressurecookerimprov The award winning After Dusk returns THIS SATURDAY at @improv_spotlight IMPROV SPOTLIGHT: We are back for the Halloween special on 25th October @improv_spotlight with After Dusk: The Improvised Twilight Zone Our favourite theatre company is back in Bristol in a few weeks and we cannot recommend them enough!