Over the past few months I have realised that one of the funniest things you can do in an improv rehearsal is remix a warm up game. You can come up with so many different variations and sometimes they can be so ridiculously stupid that they make them […]
I have found over the past few months that trashy celebrity magazines can be really good places to find inspirations for improv articles – I know that sounds silly but I always come across some random things that can really actually get the creative juices flowing and create […]
You can go up on stage halfway into a scene and sort of expect or predict where it is going and you walk on confidently to be that character that you know would fit perfectly into that scenario; then as soon as you walk on stage you have […]
I remember when I first started improv, the improvisers I saw on stage were so more advanced then me and they were so talented on stage. Ever so often some of these players, would turn up at improv drop ins and I would find this so scary. These […]
This week in improv it was a bit of a mixed batch – it was about preparing for two shows that we have this week with different line ups and trying out new games as well. We only realised that we have only four weeks until our next […]
I was watching a video the other day of someone dressed as a clown and not really sure what to do with themselves and you could tell that they felt awkward being dressed as one. One thing that this person said in the footage was that they felt […]
I recently read an article where someone was writing about their dislike for the television show Whose Line Is It Anyway and was pretty much slating it for the way that it depicts improv and gives the rest of improv a bad name. I have read a lot […]
Ever so often, I will have a look at those things that people describe as ‘women magazines’ you know, the ones like Heat, Love It (is that still going?), Marie Clare and Glamour. I usually tend to read them when I am at the hairdressers, but ever so […]
I have currently been reading Mindy Kaling’s book ‘Why Not Me’ and it has a lot of great stories about working in television as a script writer. One of the chapters I came across was all about working on The Office US and working specifically with Steve Carrell. […]
When you have been doing improv for more then a year you get to a point, especially when you are in a short form improv troupe, where you try and see if new games work and put spins on games or do something ‘fresh’. It is really fun […]
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