An Improv troupe
We are an amateur improv troupe who love playing improv!
International
Our members come from all over the world and all have their own special accent.
On stage!
We do our own shows but we also participate in "competitive" improv.
Zurich based
We rehearse and perform in Zurich (Switzerland).
Fun
We love doing improv and sharing it with our audience.
Donation based
We don't charge for tickets for our shows.
Our events
Double feature - Basic Pitches: Pitch us a Musical & DTMM: Shiitake Happens
Come and enjoy an evening of double the improv fun
Full ArticleGAME in NARRATIVE IMPROV
Bring more comedy into your improvised stories by learning how to find and play funny patterns and endow your characters with comedic points of view!
Full ArticleThe Stranger
Watch the Mushrooms at improvise at Theater Ida with a new long form improvised: The Stranger.
Full ArticleThe Stranger
Watch the Mushrooms at improvise at Theater Ida with a new long form improvised: The Stranger.
Full ArticleDouble feature
In this very special double feature, we present two unique improv shows in one fantastic night.
Full ArticleIda Theatersport Liga
Theater Ida is organizing a theater sports liga with shows in English.
Full ArticleTheater Sports by ZIC: DTMM VS ZIC
Zurich Improv Comedy (ZIC) is organizing a theater sports show and they invited us to participate.
Full Articlea penny for my thoughts
An improvised play based on a game where characters will try to recover their lost memories.
Full ArticleOpen Stage + a penny for my thoughts @ Dynamo
Tobertus Habicht invited us to their open stage and to premiere our new format “a penny for my thoughts”.
Full ArticlePREMISE + GAME in IMPROV SCENES
Do you want to be able to pull ideas from an opening and use them to initiate scenes?
Full ArticleImprofight: Don't Touch My Mushroom VS Dodecahedron
We will see you on stage again in 2021!
Theater Sports by ZIC: DTMM VS ZIC
Zurich Improv Comedy (ZIC) is organizing a theater sports show and they invited us to participate.
Full ArticleThe Harold
The Harold is a longform improvised format which emphasises patterns, themes and group discoveries instead of a traditional plot or story. Everything starts from a simple suggestion from the audience.
Full ArticleFirst online Improv show
No virus is going to prevent us from doing what we like most! Don’t Touch My Mushroom adapts to the circumstances and brings us a fully online improv show experience.
Full ArticleOnline workshop: One offer at a time
No virus is going to keep us from doing Improv! Now that most of us are secluded at home we should adapt and do things that keep us sane.
Full ArticleYour body can create 1001 characters!
Change your voice, play with your face, transform your attitude, your body is a formidable metamorphosing tool!.
Full ArticleMime and object work
This workshop focuses on a side-skill : miming and object and space work.
Full ArticleMushrooms on Stage
Improv is what happens when the actors don’t know what will happen: A totally spontaneous spectacle, made up on the spot and based on suggestions from the audience members! You will not walk out smarter, but you will walk out happier!
Full ArticleWombats vs Mushrooms - Impro Battle
The prophecy says that in 2020 a new generation of improv show will emerge. Only the bravest improvisers will dare challenge the mighty Don’t Touch My Mushroom. In this first edition, the Wisdom of Wombats have answered the calling. Who will become the winner of the first Improv Battle?
Full ArticleMushroom Harvest
Improv is what happens when the actors don’t know what will happen: A totally spontaneous spectacle, made up on the spot and based on suggestions from the audience members!
Full ArticleIMPRO CHÄLLER presents Impro Match
Join us in Improchaeller for a friendly impro contest between “Berta Pan”🍳 and “Don’t Touch My Mushroom”🍄. Crazy short forms will test their improv skills, make you laugh and wonder. You get to choose the winner!
Full ArticleBetween 2 Worlds
Improv is what happens when the actors don’t know what will happen: A totally spontaneous spectacle, made up on the spot and based on suggestions from the audience members!
Full ArticleDrawing Lines
19:30 Apero, 20:00 Start of the Performance
Improv is what happens when the actors don’t know what will happen: A totally spontaneous spectacle, made up on the spot and based on suggestions from the audience members!
Full ArticleMaking Sense of Senses
This show is based on jenseits’ seasonal theme “sense and senses.”
Full ArticleWhere fungi feel at home...
Join us to laugh with and at one of the few (and therefore one of the best!) Zurich’s international improv theatre troupes, Don’t Touch My Mushroom. Once again, the fungi’s show will be unscripted, unpredictable, unhinged, and inspired by you, the audience.
You will not walk out smarter, but you will walk out happier.
Full ArticleImprov Tales of 1001 Night
Improv Tales of 1001 Night!
Don’t Touch My Mushroom will be hosted on this occasion by our friends from Wisdom of Wombats.
Full ArticleSporeadic Fungi Improv
Join us to laugh with and at one of the few (and therefore one of the best!) Zurich’s international improv theatre troupe: The Don’t Touch my Mushroom team.
Full ArticlePremiere at Jenseits!
The Improv Group Don’t Touch My Mushroom is proud… and slightly scared… to announce its first independent show in English!
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