“…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 […]
This week has been a really busy one in the world of improv – we are being coached by the every so talented Suki Webster on the weekend so we have spent a lot of the week getting ready for that. Also I have started a new eight […]
This week we are heading to Ealing for this weeks show of the week. On Thursday, Dereks Mojo are performing at the “Healing Comedy Club” at 7:30pm. I caught up with Monica and Jodyanne to find out what they have in store for the audience… Hello tell us all […]
THIS IS A SERIES BY DAVID ESCOBEDO THAT OFFERS A SIMPLIFIED PERSPECTIVE ON THREE BASIC OR SMALL ELEMENTS OF IMPROV. THERE ARE SURELY WAYS TO DECONSTRUCT AND FIND EXCEPTIONS. IT WOULD BE HARD TO FIND ANYTHING IN IMPROV THAT OPERATES UNIVERSALLY. THESE ARE OFFERED AS ONE PERSPECTIVE THAT MAY […]
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 […]
This week has been a very musical based one at Punders HQ as we wanted to start testing out short form music game ideas that we have had. It is something that is still very new to us but we want to start incorporating music based games to […]
This week for our show of the week we are heading to Hoopla Clubhouse at London Bridge for something very special. The Die Hards are a long form improv comedy group that draw on the audience audience suggestions, they create characters and fast-paced, hilarious sketches that are never to be […]
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 […]
This week Punder Mike was in charge of the lesson and it meant that we were focussed on the world of character. The first exercise that we did this week involved another blindfold but unlike last weeks game this one was more about listening. When we were blindfolded […]
This week we are heading all the way over to North London to the Free Association for an Ultimate Cagematch – no we are not a wrestling site we are talking all about improv to the death! (well not literally). One of the improv troupes competing is one […]
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