The Copenhagen International Improv Festival runs for a full week of workshops and shows. Alas, Five Chubby Foxes commitments meant I could only join from the Thursday, although this still left plenty to enjoy. The festival is based at and around the ICC Theatre in central Copenhagen, a lovely improv-specific
A dark comedy about lying together. Inspired by an anonymous audience lie, each show reveals why we lie to the people we love. By the award-winning CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation & Sturike Comedy.
Exciting news for all fans of MissImp, improvised comedy and oral history projects! Our Richard Minkley (one of the The Vox Pops stars, and all round excellent journalist and founder of The Curious Network) has scored a massive grant to create the definitive oral history of MissImp and its community
Improvisers and role-playing game (RPG) players share the same kind of geekdom: we both get our kicks from being characters and telling those characters stories. Whether you like a tight rules system with a dice roll for the amount of oxygen you take in, or a free form game where
The chance to repeat an amazing experience presents somewhat of a quandary: Will it live up to the memories? Or was its attraction largely one-off novelty? After consulting a few people, and seeing circumstances had aligned again, I found myself headed for another five-day improv retreat with The Maydays. First,
Why would an introvert who hates crowds drive four hours to Dorset to live for five days in a Buddhist commune with fifty-nine other improv punters? All the Reasons Well, a year ago my partner Dave returned from his first Maydays improv retreat at Osho Leela, brimming with tales of
It’s the middle of September, the days are starting to get shorter, the weather’s a bit colder, and I’ve just started a ‘real job’ doing ‘real things’ in the ‘real world’… By all accounts I should be a bit glum, and yet I can’t stop smiling… “Why?” you ask… Well
This is the last part of Guy’s recounting of his journey while taking in five weeks of improv training at iO in Chicago, check out week one, week two, week three and week four. Some readers might find these a tough read, so note trigger warnings for being well outside
Here’s the second part of my experiences training in workshops with Phillipe Gaulier over five days at Trestle Theatre in July 2019, read part one here. Thursday Something I haven’t mentioned is the game we played at the beginning of each day. You all walk around following instructions, but only
This is part four of Guy’s recounting of his internal journey while taking in five weeks of improv training at iO in Chicago, check out week one, week two and week three here. Some readers might find these a tough read, so note trigger warnings for being well outside your
This is part three of Guy’s recounting of his emotional journey while taking in five weeks of improv training at iO in Chicago, check out week one here, and week two here. Some readers might find these a tough read, so note trigger warnings for being well outside your own
Here are some of my experiences training in workshops with Phillipe Gaulier over five days at Trestle Theatre in July 2019. I haven’t detailed every exercise, only significant events, so if it looks like I didn’t do much on some days, that is because the rest of the day didn’t
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