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
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 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
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
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
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!
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
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