On Sunday 21 March 2010, Brown Mountain College (artist Mel Brimfield, curator Ben Roberts and writer Sally O’Reilly) presented The Living Newspaper, a cabaret based on the Zhivaia gazeta, which began as a way to bring news stories to the illiterate Red Army soldiers of Soviet Russia and was further developed into full-scale theatrical productions that were part broadsheet, part music hall.

The Brown Mountain edition of The Living Newspaper follows the original remit; combining public entertainment with the delivery of cultural, political and documentary information; in an event reviving the avant-garde ethos of collaboration between artists, actors, filmmakers, political activists and comedians.

Comedy improvisation team Grand Theft Impro presented a series of satirical sketches, scenarios and improvisations on notorious and less well-known headlines from current and archaic newspapers. Comedienne Rachel Pantechnicon delivered a series of monologues in response to readers’ letters to the newspaper’s resident agony aunt.

The sports pages of the paper featured the deans of Brown Mountain College as various sponsors of a number of specially devised races, including an Orange Stacking race between Erwin Wurm and Barbara Hepworth.

This was the final event in a  series of Improbable Events curated by Mark Aerial Waller.