One thing that is important about improv is that you have to have trust in your scene partners. If you are part of a improv troupe this is a vitally important part of working well as a group because you need to constantly look after the person you […]
One of the most useful lessons I was ever given in improv was about how to get the most out of the stage. When you first start performing improv and you haven’t been professionally trained as an actor or actress, you don’t really focus or really think about […]
When I first started doing improv this was something that completely and utterly scared the pants off of me and doing your first one of these will be a really big leap i will warn you. When I was training up in Newcastle it was part of the […]
Sometimes in Improv you have to get physical to create comedy and that is when things can get really fun. Just watch things like Mr Bean and Charlie Chaplin – simple movements and actions and even the ultimate extreme can create a huge amount of humour for an […]
Sometimes in improv you don’t have to say anything for it to be effective and stand out to an audience – sometimes actions can speak a lot more to an audience then words. This sort of scene work predominantly happens in long form but it can spiral into […]
This is one post of many that we will do in regards to cover emotion as there are so many exercises to do with this topic and it is also a strong part of improv. Emotion is used a lot in comedy to portray how a character is […]
If there is one thing that I have learnt in Improv is that painting a scene is very important – it is very vital for both the audience and the players. It is importance for your audience because you are creating a scene and location for them to […]
There are many games in improv that rely on a secret – now this isn’t like a ground breaking secret that you need to declare to the world, but there are games where one member or more of the scene will not be able to know what the […]
Are you at home and wanting to do something that is improv based that doesn’t take too much work and is a fun to play with all the family? Then these games are going to be great for you! There are so many mini games that when you […]
When you start to focus on characters in improv, there is one thing very early on that you learn – that status is key to creating succesful creations. When you look at society, you will notice that there is a hierachy of people, whether this is by their […]
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