Instead of just telling you about how improv changed my life, I thought it would be a good to do a feature looking at different areas of the comedy art form.Now, I am not a teacher of improv and I have only been doing it for just over […]
We’ll start our chat about the lessons we learnt with guest teachers by going back a whole year! Last January, Lydia Hensler and Zeke Nicholson, from UCB NYC and LA, came to London to teach some workshops. I was doing improv for a year, not always super confident […]
This week was all about the final rehearsals for our show that we were performing at The Miller. It was nice to have the whole team back together as it had been a while since we had all been in the same room together. For this latest show […]
This improv season, there has been a lot of brand new shoes available for fans to watch. One of those shows has been created by the teachers of Hoopla. Their next show is 18th November at The Miller. Even though he isn’t performing at this months show, I […]
Every week we like to talk to members of the Improv community about why they got into improv and how it changed their life. Today we speak to James Barrass-Banks, a member of the improv troupe Punderstandably. How Improv Made Me Awesome At My Job Do you want […]
Since starting improv there is something that i notice I do a lot – and that is say Yes! Now, i have always been someone who has been outgoing and taken opportunities when they have arisen but I do find the word yes is now more and more […]
Yes, we have taken a break from our weekly blogging. With our new Sunday show format and the many guest teachers we had over the past couple of months, something had to give and we fell short on our blogging. That doesn’t mean we haven’t been plotting and […]
This week was the last lesson of musical improv and it was sad to see it go but I think at the same time it has given me ideas for the future. This weeks lesson was a bit different to the others that we have had because we […]
Every week, we like to hear stories from Improvisers about how they got into Improv and what it has done for their lives. This week we hear from Geoffrey, who is part of the Newcastle based troupe Spontaneous Wrecks. His improv story didn’t properly begin until he left America […]
If there is one thing that I have always enjoyed – it’s being on stage. Ever since a young age I have loved doing things on stage and performing everything fromSongs to acting. I have never been the greatest singer and probably not the best actor but one […]