Are you a comedy writer? Want to be? Come along to our monthly writing drop-ins to create, share and develop new comedy writing. These laid-back Sunday afternoons are the perfect place to share sketches, comedy characters and sitcom ideas that you have created, in a supportive group environment. As well
Group scenes provide some of the most fun you can have in improv. You’re creating fabulous and incredible things with multiple people on stage at the same time, and new ideas can be found and explored in even more depth as we each throw our ideas into the hat. It
Improv scenes can have real depth if characters clearly have defined statuses, which enable us to play with the power dynamics that naturally follow. However, all too often we might find ourselves remaining in the position we happened to have taken at the beginning of the scene, missing out on
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
This week we’ll be warming up fast, talking little and getting right into the heart of improv – scenes! Fast scenes, slow scenes, long scenes, short scenes, funny, sad, hopeful, despairing and every graduation between we will cover them in this two-hour session. Come along to maximise your stage time
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 longer, and you can drink throughout – just like a real show! This
For realz this time, we’ve got a Jack back! Words only make up 7% of the way we communicate with our partner. In this session we’ll explore how we can build worlds and characters using just our bodies and trusting in our partner to recognise the way we feel. There’ll be
Words only make up 7% of the way we communicate with our partner. In this session we’ll explore how we can build worlds and characters using just our bodies and trusting in our partner to recognise the way we feel. There’ll be lots of slow, organic and emotional improv this week…
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
Start 2020 with a Bang! Great News! We’ve had such an amazing year, and, fully glutted with Christmas, we thought the best way to continue celebrating was to knock another 10% off the early bird prices for our February 2020 Level 1 and Level 2 improv comedy courses! Snap up
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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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