Christmas improv and Awards Improv! Prizes! Food! Booze! Charity! Thursday 11th December Gorilla Burger’s for fun and games – for getting up on stage and improvising with new folks and old friends. Chuck yer name in the hat and bite your nails with anticipation. Never done improv comedy? Marvellous. Done
This week’s jam: Top That This weeks jam is run by Geoff. You won’t need a gingham lid for this 2 hour jam making session. The home-made jam is of the comic improvisational variety. Geoff will draw names and games out of hat and they shall be turned into scenes we
This week’s jam: A Night At The Movies This week’s jam is run by Colin. Movies can be a great form of inspiration for improv! Whether it’s by taking stock characters, bastardising plot lines or playing on familiar genre tropes, movies feature greatly in the improv scene. But what
A post by the ever lovely (and terrifying in Shoot Out) Elliott Bower: Improv is Awesome Improv has always been fun to watch and do because quite simply it is off the cuff which is what life is: there’s no script for life. Nottingham’s premier Improv company MissImp have been progressively making
This week’s jam: Some Things Will Happen This weeks jam is run by Geoff. This weeks jam is brought to you by telepathic mind control. You will discover emotions you didn’t know you had, and you may feel the urge to sing for reasons you don’t yet understand. We’ll be focusing
This week’s jam: You Say Prawn, I Say Ghetto This week’s jam is brought to you by the letter ≥. The suggestions we get for a scene can be explored in a million different ways, but often they are taken literally. Such interpretation can work perfectly well, but it can also be limiting and
This week’s jam: Unity! This week’s jam is brought to you by the letter thorn. We are all One. Like peas in a pod, like the petals of a flower, like androids from the same factory. Listening and adapting to “fit” with your scene partner is central to improv, and in
This week’s jam: Hat Based Activity Names and games, in a hat. Drawn like the lottery, except every name is a winner. Lots of games, an equal number of open scenes and random stuff hurled into the mix. Fun! Thursday 7th August 7.30pm – 9.30pm The Corner 8 Stoney St Hockley NG1 1LH
This week’s jam: Armando Van Helpful This week’s jam is run by Lloydie The Armando, also known as The Asssscat or “someone talking and then some scenes happening” is a really simple form to improvise. One of the simplest. This Thursday we will be running a number of Armandos, but
This week’s jam: La Montagerie Verte This week everything is connected. Like Lego… All scenes are likewise connected, though the link may not be obvious. Thursday 17th July 7.30pm – 9.30pm The Corner 8 Stoney St Hockley NG1 1LH £3
This week’s jam: The Lusty Gardener Please note that for this week only we are in a different place – The Writers Studio in Hockley. This week’s jam is run by: Amy. This week’s jam will look at ways to develop interesting characters whilst maintaining the direction of your scenes. Not only will
This week’s jam: The Dark Side of The Moon This week’s jam is run by: Nick. Tonight we’ll be taking inspiration from brilliant / terrible works of science fiction. It will bend the minds of participants into new ideas and scenes never before considered. Tonnes of fun and reasonable chance of
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