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 […]
This week is the Gatlinburg Improv Festival in Tennessee, it runs between the days of March the 1st to Saturday the 2nd and is the home to a number of great improv acts and workshops! There are 60+ performers and 17 troupes performing including Shenanigans, Nashville Improv, Einstein Simplified […]
This week is the Gatlinburg Improv Festival in Tennessee, it runs between the days of March the 1st to Saturday the 2nd and is the home to a number of great improv acts and workshops! There are 60+ performers and 17 troupes performing including Shenanigans, Nashville Improv, Einstein Simplified […]
This week is the Gatlinburg Improv Festival in Tennessee, it runs between the days of March the 1st to Saturday the 2nd and is the home to a number of great improv acts and workshops! There are 60+ performers and 17 troupes performing including Shenanigans, Nashville Improv, Einstein Simplified […]