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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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