It’s time for a check-up! Does something feel a bit clunky ‘n’ creaky when you improvise? Are your justification joints seizing up? Do your support muscles need… well… supporting? WELL, FOR JUST A SINGLE, ONE-TIME, LOW LOW PRICE OF £5.00, ESTEEMED DOCTOR* LIAM J. WEBBER IS GOING TO TRY AND HELP!
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
One of the hardest parts of improv is being stood at the side of the stage, feeling the pressure to get on, but not seeing the chance to. This week we will get you leaping forward and jumping in, secure in the knowledge you’ll be supported once you do! This
When beginning improv it’s very easy to get lost in your head trying to pre-plan scenes. This is an understandable response to fear. One way of getting out of our heads is to walk into the scene with an emotion, activity, physicality, character or a relationship. Another is simply to
Sometimes we feel frantic in scenes when we feel the “need to be funny,” as if the success of the show rests on our shoulders. The reality is that you just need to throw all yourself into the small percentage of the show you have power over. The other 90%
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
Very often in improv we perform in studio theatre stages, with just the front of the stage open to the audience, with the performers enclosed on the other three sides. It’s not the only kind of performance space though, arena stages and theatres in the round place the audience all
This week is a very special musical drop-in led by Sam Marshall and Jack from Rhymes Against Humanity. The best improv happens when we feel vulnerable, and simultaneously have an absolute mega-ton of support from the other players working with us. Musical improv can seem like wizardry and make us
Throw a ball into a group of young children and they will kick it, throw it and bounce it without hesitation. Throw a ball into a group of adults and they will look to you for instruction or permission. Have they forgotten how to play? No! Of course not! Play
Heads up – we’re back at the Malt Cross! Guessing games in improv are a tale as old as time – from Party Quirks to Let’s Make A Date guessing games were made famous on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and were an improv staple for many years. But they
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
Heads up – we’re back at the Malt Cross! Like the life of the person who walks on four legs in morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening, our improv scenes have different phases. By being aware of these different phases and applying relevant skills at
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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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