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Improv Jam: Thursday 26 April 2012

Apr 24

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This week’s jam: Names & Games

This week’s jam is run by me: Nick.

While a bunch of our team are off in Birmingham taking our own special brand of improv to Improv Slam! and hopefully to victory in a four way improv war, the rest of us can take advantage of the extra time and space to get some more playtime in.

We’re going to draw names out of the hat and play a combination of open scenes and some of the more traditional games we play on stage. We’ll mix up Whose Lines, Alphabet Games, Dubbing and more of our favourites. Oh, and I’ve found the most awesome / dangerous warm up game to play – so come along, we need enough people for that alone!

 So come and make the most of the space!

Really important: we are not at TAO Nottingham this week. As with last week’s jam, we’re in the nice place at 39 Stoney St.

Different place usual time:
39 Stoney St
Hockley
NG1 1LX

Thursday 26th April 7.30pm – 9.30pm
£2

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MissImp in Action – Friday 27th April

Apr 23

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Back With A Vengeance

MissImp return to The Glee Club to celebrate the end of April (sure, why not?) and the beginning of summer. Yes, it will almost certainly be raining. But that won’t dampen our spirits!

This month we’re throwing Lloydie, Marilyn, Nick, Parky and David onto the stage with Geoff compereing the show. It’s set to be a fine mix of madness, wit and unique silliness.We’re bringing back some games that we haven’t played for a while that are sure to cause our players some pain, for your amusment!

Join us – nothing we do on Friday will ever happen again and we’ll be relying on your inspiring ideas and suggestions to create strange and hilarious characters, comically disturbing situations and unlikely outcomes.

Change? Do we like change? Yes.

This month (and for all shows to come) we’re on an hour later in the evening – so the doors open at 8pm now. We’re trying to remember that ourselves… It does mean some of our players get to eat before the show which is probably a good thing. It also means you get to eat and drink before the show too!

Details and Booking Ahead

Book ahead for discounts (it’s worth it – £4.50 in advance online or £6 on the door).
Students always get in for £3 because you are special people.
Doors open at 8.00, close at 8.15 and the show kicks off at 8.30.
Book at at Glee.co.uk.

Expect more of this:

And maybe this:

Perhaps…

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"My Two Husbands Was Turnips": Thoughts on Film Noir Dialogue

Apr 20

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As promised, this week’s blog post provides the answers to last week’s film noir quiz. The quiz was prompted by the tribute to film noir at the TCM Classic Movie Festival, which ended Sunday, but good movie dialogue has been on my mind since teaching Citizen Kane in my film studies class a couple of weeks ago. We were discussing Mr.

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Some great dialogue from Film Noir - one of my favourite film and literature genres. The words just bounce up at you - gritty and witty. This lot is perfect for getting into character. Enjoy:

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MissImp looking good at The Rescue Rooms

MissImp looking good at The Rescue Rooms

Apr 8

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MissImp had a funky mini-gig at The Rescue Rooms as part of the Upload Music Festival. We’ve done a few of these 20 minute sets recently and they’re lots of fun, adding a unique and unusual element to the night in question. Martin, David, James and Nick played daft games for a lovely roomful of music lovers.

As the organiser of Upload, Mr Al Draper said “It really was the turning point of the show in lots of ways, giving it the lift it needed!! Many thanks again to you and your team for such inspired entertainment.” Can’t say much more than that…

Here are some great pictures by Daniel Whiston:

 by Daniel Whistonby Daniel Whiston

You can see more of Daniel’s work and more of Upload’s other artists at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wizzolas/

We were lucky enough to also be photographed by Jenny from White Rabbit Photography:

  They’re an outstanding bunch of shots (though not enough of dear David for my tastes) and so many thanks to Daniel and Jenny for letting us share them.

If anyone does happen to have any photos of MissImp doing our thing we’d love to see them! Please tag us on Facebook or email them to us. We love ya.

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Improv Jam: Thursday 5th April 2012

This week’s jam: BRING IT ON (more)

This week’s jam is run by Nick.

In the last Bring It On jam we got shoved into making choices we wouldn’t normally make – time jumps, Oscar moments, monologues. This week we’ll be doing all that and more – open scenes and action to encourage the best from ourselves and reinforce some of the work we’ve done with Brandon Gardner over the weekend (oo-rah!)

Really important: we are not at TAO Nottingham this week. Some friends are letting us try out a different room from usual. We’re in a nice place at 39 Stoney St, in return we’re letting them run around with video cameras while we play. Don’t worry, it’s not going live or being used anywhere. This is otherwise a jam as usual.

Different place usual time:

39 Stoney St
Hockley
NG1 1LX
Thursday 5th April 7.30pm – 9.30pm
£2


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