This week I sat down with North East comedian and funny man Jon Farthing about the process of all things comedy. Jon has been on the comedy circuit for many years, whether it’s doing stand up or performing improv in his group Spontaneous Wrex, comedy runs through his […]
Last week was a fun one in regards to improv, i performed my second show on stage which went really well and also had the last lesson for the month. It has been a whole bunch of interesting lessons and turns so lets start with show time. The […]
Bath Comedy Festival 1st – 10th April If you are in Bath at the beginning of April then why not head on down to the Comedy Festival. It’s the 8th annual Festival and has a wide array of performers at the event, over 120 to be precise! Some familiar […]
This week was another great week of improv which lead to my whole persona as an improviser change. I didn’t realise it at first it was only when i walked away from the class that i realised where my strongest areas of improv are starting to show. This […]
This week at Improv we had a guest teacher called Tom who was set up to come in by Ian and Bev. He was there to teach us more about becoming a character and really building on the concept and allowing the character to completely take you over so […]
This week there is no lessons on – so instead going to talk about a fun part of improv that happens at the end of each month – improv club. Now the idea of improv club is for members of the advanced classes to test out the long […]
This week has been another roller coaster ride for both improv and life and going to split this post into two – both by experiences and comedians / case studies as I have tried long and hard to think of one person that covers both areas and it’s […]
The improv scene in Newcastle is ever growing with new acts appearing all the time. The group Spontaneous Wrecks have been going since 2014 and next week are set to perform a show which is going to be X File themed. I sat down with some of the […]
This week my life has been completely inundated with status. On Saturday I helped out with the Beginners Improv lesson which was nice as it meant that I met some lovely new people and also was able to just go over the basics again, which is important to […]
New month means new improv classes and the room we were in this time was beautiful and like we had walked into a classroom of Hogwarts. The miners institute library is made up of beautiful wooden book shelves that surround the room like something you imagine in a […]
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