Category Archives: Jams

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

Thursday 19th January 2012… the day the jam, for one week only, gets a mini-extension.

Same £2 price… but an extra half hour of improvised daftness

This week’s jam is run by Lloydie.  It starts at 7.30 and there will be lots of chances to get up and do scenes with a variety of people.  There’s going to be a lot of “doing” this week.  Lots of it.

PLUS: From around 9pm, Pete will be joining us with his keyboard and we’ll be doing some improvised songs.  Now, some people get a bit “OMG” when we talk about improvising a song.  a) you will not be forced to sing (you can just watch this bit of the jam if you’d prefer) and b) it will be made as easy as possible.  Remember it’s improv so if you make a “mistake” it’s all part of the scene.

As a result of Pete joining us around 9pm, we’ll be extending the jam until 10pm.  If you’ve already made plans for after 9.30, that’s fine, there will be a space for a dignified exit.

So, in summary, lots of scenework, lots of support and a little bit of music too.  Now that’s the sort of jam Robertson’s would be proud of (hopefully).