I was on the tube the other day and I came across these posters and it made me, funnily enough think of an improv post to write. As you can see from the signs, if you look at them closely enough, each of these posters have a relevance […]
I got asked a really interesting question the other day and was one of the first proper conversations I had with a new improviser – do people find love in improv? This I found was a very difficult question to answer because I wasn’t really sure how to […]
I was watching an episode of Hypothetical the other day and one of the jokes that James Acaster was making was about the hypothetical question about creating a new holiday and he said a line that made him laugh as he was surprised that the audience reacted so […]
Sometimes you want to come up with new warm up games for you to play with your improv team because you always play the same ones day in day out. Well, when I was working in New York (refer to the American Diaries from last months article) I […]
“…Echoes of you echoes of you Repeating from the beating of your tell-tale heart…” When you are part of an improv troupe you tend to do quite a few shows that sometimes it means that it can be easy to fall into the routine of using the same […]
When you start a troupe, you tend to do it with people that you have either met on a course or people that you have bonded over the same ideologies about what you want your improv group to be and what to achieve. What happens though when you […]
Sometimes when you walk onto stage, it is easy just to jump on as a normal person and then build up your characters persona when you are on stage. Sometimes it is easy to forget that you could actually walk on stage as a character and use your […]
I was listening to my music on shuffle the other day and came across the newish Take That song ‘Outta Our Heads’ which I had not really heard in such a long time. I forgot how wacky it was and also fun and it got me thinking – […]
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 […]
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