Chris Mead Narrative drop in This week was a bumper week for Improv! I decided to go to a day intensive course on the day of our show because I didn’t have anything else to do and thought it would be better spent going to an intensive course […]
There is lesson I learnt this week – don’t let Steve Martin get into your head before an improv lesson! Of course, it is not Steve Martins fault, but the day of Musical Improv lesson was a very Steve Martin based day – i spent a good hour […]
Musical Improv This week was the return of a course that I have missed being part of my life – Musical Improv! That’s right, i am back doing musical based improv with Phil Lunn although this time it is the advanced class! It was interesting to see the […]
This week was a fun one in the world of Punders – we made our debut on the West End! Well, we played a set as part of show hosteed by Sprout Ideas at the Actors Theatre just off Covent Garden. We were given a twenty minute set […]
This week was started off by having a reunion with some of my fellow improv chums up in the North East. I went back up to Newcastle to have a good ole catch up and to see some familiar faces. It was so great to reconnect with some […]
This week was all about focussing on the future and reading through the first draft of our setting and script for Improv Towers. We are extending a 10 minute set into a two hour night with special guests throughout the evening – so we are using the time […]
Happy New Year to all of our readers and welcome back to the Improv Diaries – we are back this year set to take you on another set of adventures with everything that I do in improv and also learn along the way. So lets start this years […]
This week was all about getting ready for our final show of the year – it was our last rehearsal of the year as well so everyone was in very high spirits and full of festive cheer! We started off the practice by doing energy based warm ups. […]
This week the show that you must go and see is the short form improv troupe Punderstandably. Join them at the Nursery Theatre in Liverpool Street on the 7th of December as they take on the challenges that Improv Towers has to offer them. The show is being […]
This week it was show time! Punderstandably had their set at The Miller Launchpad where we had 12 mins to show our set! We have a how that we have got down to a good 11 minutes and a structure where the audience know it is ending which […]
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