This week’s drop-in: Let’s Monologue Brought to you by Richard. “Alas, poor Yorick…” sure, that’s more of a soliloquy, but you get the idea. We use monologues in improv as the inspiration for different kinds of improv show, from the very brief personal glimpses at the beginning of the Smash
This week’s drop-in: Specific/Explicit Brought to you by Ben. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Two improvisers get up on stage. They spend the first half of the scene interacting with what might be a relationship or a premise, and it’s clear nobody really knows what’s going on!
This week’s drop-in: Whose Line Brought to you by Nick. The eponymous game of the amazing improv radio and TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, a staple of shortform shows and one of my favourite games of all time. I love it because of the apparent randomness the lines
This week’s drop-in: Finding a Tree in a Wood Brought to you by Jack. Sometimes we get suggestions that are generic or don’t pique our interest enough to get our comedy flowing. This week’s workshop is about generating ideas as a group before scenes begin, to help us find that
This week’s drop-in: All By Myself – Soloprov Made Easy! Brought to you by Emily. We all know improv is a team sport, but what happens on those rare occasions when you find yourself completely alone on stage? Do you panic? Freeze up? Flee? NO! You take a deep breath
This week’s drop-in: Super Agreement Brought to you by Richard. So there is an improviser named Katy Schutte (author of a great book called The Improviser’s Way: A Longform Workbook) who wrote about the improv phenomenon of pimping as follows: “When we ask someone to ‘read that poem you’ve been
This week’s drop-in: Happy Accidents Brought to you by Ben. Unfortunately AJ Orta has had to cancel tonight’s planned drop-in Gifts in the Silence due to issues with flights from California. But the drop in goes ahead! We rarely get what we expect in improv and the unexpected can easily throw
This week’s drop-in: 240 Characters (and More) Brought to you by Emily. This workshop is for if you’re feeling a bit stuck in a rut with your character work! We’ll be exploring ways to play further away from ourselves – from playing different people to animals to inanimate objects! From
This week’s drop-in: Making a Connection Brought to you by Liam. Ever feel a bit adrift in a scene? A simple answer to this predicament is just reconnecting with your scene partner – they’re the only other person on that stage with you, and the only way you’re gonna make
This week’s drop-in: Playfulness Brought to you by Ben. One of the best things about improv is finding a little thing that just tickles you and playing with it. This week is all about finding joy in the simple stuff of a scene and sharing that enjoyment with the audience.
This week’s drop-in: What’s happening!? Brought to you by Lee. The holidays can be a disorientating time, we don’t know what day it is, where we are or what we’ve eaten. Ever been that way in a scene? Unsure what is going on with your character or partner? To start
This week’s drop-in: Nailed It Brought to you by Nick. This week we’re going to play a couple of classic improv short-form games like Whose Line, Genre Rollercoaster, Standing Sitting Leaning and Should Have Said. We’re only gonna play a few because we’re playing them to understand what makes them tick, and
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