A great actor can play anyone in any situation, but you don’t often 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 Al Pacino, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, George Clooney, Will
This week’s jam: Take It Personal The jam is brought to you by Ben. In improv it is the relationship between characters that fuel our scenes, and it is all too easy to wander off into high concept work losing touch with our core characters who are the ones who make scenes compelling.
This week’s jam: Objectify Yourself The jam is brought to you by Liam. It’s fun to be different people, but what about different things? Things are amazing. There’s endless opportunity to be objects, and to play otherwise inanimate stuff, and this week we’re going to explore your potential as more than just a bag of
This week’s jam: Bring It Back The jam is brought to you by Lloydie. We’ve been doing lots of fun stuff with character recently, but for all the effort we put into making our charming, weird and funny characters we often just discard them after a few minutes and sit down. What a
This week’s jam: MMRWG This week’s improv jam is run by: Parky How many of your daily interactions with human beings are with just one other person? In the pub, with your family, in meetings, at work – most of our lives involve interacting with groups of people. So, for
This week’s jam: Convincing This week’s improv jam is run by: Parky A lot of the improv we do is for laughs (not all of it though – you know who you are. Honk). However, for me, getting an audience to really care about the characters on stage is as
This week: The Character Jam This week’s jam is run by: Parky Creating interesting characters and the relationships between them is the bedrock of improv. However, how often do we create the same type of character or someone who is just a thinly disguised version of ourselves? This week, we’re
This week’s jam: BRING IT ON (more) This week’s jam is run by Nick. In the last Bring It On jam we got shoved into making choices we wouldn’t normally make – time jumps, Oscar moments, monologues. This week we’ll be doing all that and more – open scenes and
This week’s jam: Meet and Greet MissImp Style This week’s jam is run by David. This week we’re meeting and greeting Mr Brandon Gardner, a fantastic improv teacher and performe from the US. Bring yourself along to say hello and get an opportunity to play with him. Please don’t break
This week’s jam: Scenes, scenes, scenes. This week’s jam is run by Lloydie. This week it’s all about doing as many scenes as possible. There will be lots of them. It’s the sole purpose of this week. The more reps the better. We will do open scenes, some scenes linked
This week’s jam: BRING IT ON (again) This week’s jam is run by Nick. In the last Bring It On jam we got shoved into making choices we wouldn’t normally make – time jumps, Oscar moments, monologues. And far from trashing the scenes as we feared it gave them extra
WHO THE F*** ARE YOU? – LONGFORM WORKSHOP SATURDAY 7TH JANUARY – 10AM – 5PM This is a one day playtime session, with character work exercises designed to help improvisers give clear offers, perspectives and find the funny bit of the scene quicker. There will be three hours in the morning and three
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