This week in the Improv Diaries i spoke about the podcast Conan Needs A Friend and the most recent episode with Dana Carvey. In that I spoke about his fantastic use of characters and how it can be beneficial to improvisers and I highly recommend you either listen […]
This week in the Improv Diaries, I discussed techniques that were used to train in the area of Characters. I thought I would go into more depth on this weeks Improv Corner about one of the exercises I thought worked really well and is something that I recommend […]
A while ago I came across an article that featured Director Richard Yee. I have no idea where it was from or what the whole article was about but considering he is a Director of Idiot Abroad and Sick Of It, it must of been an article about […]
It’s a new year and January is all about starting a new venture, a fresh perspective and a different start. It is also a time when many people will make new years resolutions. Everyone looks at new years resolutions as a bad thing because they believe it is […]
Creativity is a huge part of improv and sometimes it can get into the right frame of mind to think big with you ideas. So there is a way that you can change this by doing a warm up exercise that is also a game played a lot […]
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 […]
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