Having not seen improvised comedy before, I didn't know what to expect with And the Award Goes To... Endless creativity or awkward punchlines? There was a bit of both, but I'm happy to say it erred on the side of "funny".

The show is comprised of a dozen sessions where the cast are given some guidelines and left to improvise. To inject some randomness into proceedings the audience supplies some input. One session involved a man turning into - the audience decreed - a shoe; another saw two actors in a brief "pirate tragedy" (plenty of "Arr!"s and lamenting over lost ships) due to my own wonderfully misconstrued suggestion.

A lesson to take away from this is that the audience can make the show, or at least liven it up considerably, and I must confess we were thin on the ground and not adventurous enough. Dan Addis did an indefatigable job compering us, however, and was capable of any number of roles, from a Mexican to the dreaded Oxford student, and while this led to some bizarre and ridiculous accents it was all part of the fun. Donna Kitching was also engaging; her greatest talent lay in seeing comedy gold at just the right moment. The animated Fred Maynard was utterly captivating, and ready to fling himself into anything. All three displayed an amazing aptitude for improvisation.

Michael Conterio was an excellent improvised sing-language interpreter. Sadly, the other cast members weren't able to match this panache - while they were capable of supporting the others, they rarely made hilarious contributions. The improvisers were key to this show, and while I admire them for their bravery, the chemistry wasn't always there.

This was a problem of the format: by its nature, the show couldn't produce perfect sketches with well-timed punchlines, but that made it all the more remarkable when the jokes worked. And, make no mistake, the jokes worked: the team frequently took the audience's disparate suggestions and forged a great sketch out of it. But it was, perhaps unavoidably, a mixed bag: there were moments of total hilarity and, while the low points were always agreeable, they simply didn't click. Seeing this will make you laugh - it's a credit to the cast that my main complaint is "This is good but more would be better!" - but at the same time I feel it doesn't reach the comedy heights it could.