Why are improvisers told to not ask questions? What’s wrong with questions? What do I do if I do ask a question? Will I get in trouble? Will my scene partner support me? What am I supposed to do instead? What do I do if I’m asked a question? Do
Painting works best when we use more than one colour! Similarly, improv often works better when the main subject of our scene stands out from the background. Building quickly from first principles we’ll be finding the electrifying things in our scenes while keeping them grounded. This workshop is suitable for
Time to split your January noggin open and get the improv goodness out! This week we’re back with our monthly “half drop-in, half show”, sticking you on a mini stage with everyone else, being loud and having fun doing improv stuff. The main difference from a weekly drop-in? It lasts
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the new year is an awesome time to shake off those improv cobwebs and start 2020 fresh! In this workshop we’ll be thinking about what we can each do to level up our improv in 2020. Do you want to make dynamic character choices? Play
It’s that time of the year again – MissImp is bringing back the MissImp Awards! Mashing up the usual carnage of names and games plucked from a hat of dreams with our legit knock-off Oscars ceremony, this is the perfect sayonara to 2019, and the best way to avoid all
It’s the last regular drop-in of the year, and with Santa just around the corner we have some toys to play with. This week we are improvising with puppets. Puppets are a great way to deal with the self-consciousness we get from time to time as improvisers. This might mean
A great actor can play anyone in any situation, but you don’t always see people lining up around the block to see the most critically adored actors. You usually see people lining up to see the stars with genuine charisma like Julia Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, George Clooney, Will Smith
Improv is about supporting your partner and making sure that you serve the scene… but it’s okay for you to have some fun too! This week we will be looking at our own deal, and thinking about working on things that we enjoy doing. There will be secret missions and
Roll up, roll up, it’s time to get your improv action on! Welcome to our monthly “half drop-in, half show”, sticking you on a mini stage with everyone else, being loud and having fun doing improv stuff. The main difference from a weekly drop-in? It lasts longer, and you can
Give improv a go this comedy festival! Perfect for folks with no experience in improv, performance or comedy – this session is designed to be a fun and friendly introduction into the wonderful world of improvised comedy. You don’t have to be witty or clever, just be yourself and have
For Halloween we are going to be putting the fun in “funerals”, the hilarious in horror and the merry in the macabre. All of tonight’s games and scenes take place within the horror genre, and as well as some good ‘scream’ fun, we are going to look at how we
It’s almost Halloweeny spookle-time, when the veil that separates us from the Otherworld is at its thinnest and things get strange… and with that spirit in mind we are going to aim for something a little bit different. You know that feeling you get sometimes in an improv jam, where
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During the coronavirus outbreak, MissImp has continued to offer entirely free online activities for our community, including commissioning an ongoing series of paid virtual drop-ins from improvisers around the world, fortnightly online Gorilla Burger shows and more. If you’d like to help us keep these activities going and keep our lights on we’d be immensely grateful. Together, we can get through this.
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