MissImp in Action Friday February 24th

Feb 19

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Showtime!

Has it been a month already? Well a busy one for MissImp with a bunch of teeny tiny giglets leading up to our end of the month rawr-fest at The Glee Club on Friday 24th February.

Come for the comedy and stay for the remarkable strangeness that occurs when your suggestions meet in our players minds. We have a splendid team for you of Marilyn, Geoff, Lloydie, Nick, Martin and Trilly, compered by the impeccably be-suited David Ferland McCullough.

We have games, lyrical bewilderment, engaging and horrifying characters, situations and sketches for you to enjoy. Drink heartily and maybe grab some of Glee’s wonderful foods. We believe it’s Thai food Friday. Nom nom.

So what you could you possiby be waiting for? Book now! We love to see you there and hear the bizarre things you comeup with to inspire our scenes.

See you there.

Details and Booking Ahead

Book ahead for discounts (it’s worth it now – £4.50 in advance online or £6 on the door.

Students always get in for £3 because you are special people.

Doors open at 7.00, close at 7.15 and the show kicks off at 7.30.

Book at at Glee.co.uk.

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Welcome to MissImp!

MissImp is the Nottingham comedy scene’s improv group. We’re a monthly resident at The Glee Club and you can find us improvising wildly elsewhere too. Comedy improv is the fusion of sketch and theatre, with the script lying ignored on the floor. We’ll take you to places you’ve never been… they may only exist in the gap between your suggestion and the yawning emptiness between our ears. We’ll fill them with the weird and wonderful – characters of jabbering insanity driven by the random engines of improvisation.

Want to know more? Come to a show, or join us at a workshop or jam in Nottingham.
Check up on us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, follow the MissImp blog or listen to our improv podcast.

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Maximum Playtime Jam

Feb 23

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Tonight’s jam is all about playing.  There will be no side coaching, no instruction and no corrections.  Sometimes we focus so much on learning lots of techniques that we never give ourselves the opportunity to try them out… so tonight you’re being encouraged to play as many scenes as you can. Everyone.  Me included.  Make mistakes.  Make as many as you like – coz you’ll learn from them.  No one will be judging and no one will be correcting so try stuff out.

Tonight will be in three sections.

1) Shortform games out of a hat

2) Open scenes

3) Longform montages (basically lots of open scenes off the back of one suggestion)

You’re encouraged to try out everything you’ve learned in different workshops and just PLAY!

See you tonight at 7.30pm for two hours of playtime.

Lloydie

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Improv Jam: Thursday 16th February

This week’s jam: BRING IT ON

This week’s jam is run by Nick.

Just like in the wondrous film Bring It On we must bring ‘it’, and place ‘it’ in the ‘on’ position during our improv scenes. So this week – being pushed and encouraged to BRING IT. There will be lots of capitalisations throughout the jam. We’ll be giving scenes more; more energy, more ideas, more commitment and taking them to the next level where ever that might be. Open scenes and enthusiasm.

Usual place & time:
The Blue Room, TAO Nottingham, Station Street, Nottingham
7.30pm – 9.30pm
£2

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Get Out Of Your Head with Lloydie

Feb 8

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Ever done an improv scene and thought “I’m thinking too much” and ended up not getting the results you want?

Sometimes we think about how we’re doing a scene so much that we end up not doing what we want to in a scene.

This workshop is being run by Lloydie who has brought some of these techniques back from his super-nerdy improv trip to New York.

When: Monday 20th Feb

Where: MissImp Blue Room on Station Street

How much:  Pay what you like.  Come along, learn and then pay what you think it’s worth.

If you want to come along it would really help if you clicked the “attending” button on Facebook.  Click here.

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ImprovJam: Thursday 9th Feb

Keeping rollercoasters on the rails

Thursday 9th February

This week’s jam is being run by Martin.

This week’s jam will be devoted to the various “rollercoaster” games that we play, where the players have to make changes of tone or style during a scene – with hilarious consequences!

In these games (Genre Rollercoaster, Around the World, Emotional Rollercoaster), the switches sometimes happen at the expense of scene and character coherence. This makes me sad, and when I am sad there is blood.

With that in mind, we’ll be mucking about with (sorry, “workshopping”) these games so that they can flow more smoothly.

When we as players can not only make rapid switches in genre/accent/emotion, but create compelling scenes AT THE SAME TIME, we can sparkle like vampires in the daylight and then the audience will give us the love we crave.

Usual place & time:
The Blue Room, TAO Nottingham, Station Street, Nottingham
7.30pm – 9.30pm
£2

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