This week’s jam: Gender Swap This week’s improv jam is brought to you by: Parky This week’s jam is simple – in every scene you will play a character of the opposite gender from you. This quote from Chicago Now neatly covers what we are not doing this week – playing boring stereotypes
This week’s jam: Mary, Jo, Lisa This week’s improv jam is brought to you by: Parky Since written history began, and as far back as oral history reaches, people have had names. Early names were based on nouns and adjectives – the Irish Gaelic names Conan (hound, wolf) and Aed (fire)
This week’s jam: In these times of trouble, my music sees me through This week’s improv jam is brought to you by: Parky and a selection of tunes “Music, makes the people come together….” – Madonna As John Miles once said, music is my first love and it will be
This week’s jam: Crying For No Reason This week’s improv jam is brought to you by: Parky, the letter C and the number 8 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
This week’s jam: Chinese Whispers This week’s jam is brought to you by: Ben Ssshhhh, this weeks jam is about secrets and sharing. This week we are going to be doing open scenes and montages, just like any other week, you think. But think again! Everyone is going to have a
This week’s jam: Scene work playtime This week’s jam is brought to you by: Lloydie The last few weeks we have dedicated time to core improv skills. This week we will run over a couple of these again at the very beginning of the jam and then it’s playtime. As many
This week’s jam: I Don’t Care How Funny You Think You Are This week’s jam is brought to you by: Ben Building on last week’s theme of playing slow and taking time to respond, this week’s jam is all about playing it real and intelligent. Improv isn’t just comedy, it’s also
This week’s jam: Walk, Don’t Run This week’s jam is brought to you by: Lloydie Taking things at a considered, steady pace has a lot going for it. We will be slowing things down this week. As improv podcaster Jimmy Carrane says “Walk, don’t run”. Others, such as improv double act
This week’s jam: Do Some Stuff This week’s jam is brought to you by: Nick We’re gonna dig into the Henry and beyond, into the dark heart of Henrietta and see what terrors lie within. That’s going to involve revisiting how we stage the form and how it’s edited, expanding on
This week’s jam: Plus One This week’s jam is brought to you by: Nick This week we’re working at having more than just two people in a scene. We’ll start by focussing on paying attention to those around us and listening to both the words and the pauses between words.
This week’s jam: Geoff’s Bag of Novelty This week’s jam is brought to you by: Geoff This week we’ll be playing some games you may not be familiar with. Getting out of your comfort zone is useful in advancing our improv skills. We’ll play some group games and throw in
This week’s jam: Bring It On Back This week’s jam is brought to you by: Lloydie This Thursday we are working on call-backs. Callbacks are the art of bringing back an idea from earlier in the scene, or from a previous scene in the show. In order to be able
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