Welcome to the Monoscene (A taste of the fun session run by Llaura Hughes at the British Improv Project weekend in November)    Have you ever wanted to just stay in one location, but were edited by others or the scene moved elsewhere? In the Monoscene format, we’ll use scene painting

Starting with Status We’re kicking off the new year by going back to one of the Ur-texts and replicating some of Keith Johnstone’s status exercises from Impro (a book with a typo in the title!*) We’ll find out who our characters are by exploring their relationships to others, and how

Joy from Specificity Improv Legend Susan Messing says “Names are important. We care about people whose names we know; we don’t give a shit about strangers.” So this week, we’re going to make sure we fill in as much detail as possible to ensure that we’re not strangers on stage.

Ya Gonna Do Some Scenes This week we’re doing scenes. I know: huge shock! What better way to prepare for the smorgasbord of improvised comedy coming across the next two weeks than to, y’know, do some of it ourselves. We’ll be refocusing on some essential principles such as agreement, who / what

You, Me & What’s In Between How do our characters relate to each other? Why can we get on stage and know from a single look that someone’s both our boss and we’re in trouble? These are character dynamics and are the focus of this weeks session. All the little

Search for the Werewolf Inside Yourself Monsters are people too, so let’s invite them out to play. In a vaguely Halloweenish way (though without challenging our neighbours for sweets) we’re going to play with being bad guys, monsters, unexpected heroes, and performing monstrous deeds with a twinkle in the eye. 

Creating Unique Characters Come along to play a bunch of games and perform in some short scenes with the focus on creating unique characters. We’ll be working on breaking out of the comfort zone many of us find ourselves residing in, and unearthing some new and unexpected roles. A session

Takin’ It Easy Not gonna lie, hard work is not my vibe right now. For the first drop-in I’m running post-pandemic, I wanna take it easy and just have fun. We’re just gonna do really dumb stuff and have fun!! MissImp’s Weekly Improv Drop-In We’ve run a weekly drop-in workshop

Improvising New Worlds One of the great things about improv is that the only limitation is your imagination. So why settle for this humdrum reality when you could be a spy! on the moon! Or on the moon as a spy! We’ll be visiting new worlds and finding out what

Inspiring Each Other Inspiration can be clever, funny or just plain weird: they’re all good. This week we’re going to work on inspiring ideas in each other and using them to create delightful scenes! Even more fun, we’ll use scenes to inspire each other and try to figure out how

Montages We spend a lot of time working on what to do in individual improv scenes. But how do we connect them together? In this jam we will be remembering / learning both how to move from one scene to another, and how to add to the scene in progress.