This week it was back to the Tuesday drop in, I haven’t been in a while due to everything that has been happening but it was great to return. I really like the Tuesday drop ins, they may be aimed at beginners, but i really like the people […]
This weeks improv lesson was in a really unusual place – it was in a bookshop. A bookshop you say, well yes, I didn’t know until this week that there is theatre space hidden behind the back of a bookshop in South London and for a rehearsal space […]
If you want a long read (and I mean long) , a historical book and a book about some of the worlds best comedians, then you have come to the right place. Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live is a great book about how the […]
This week is a bumper edition of all things improv as I went to drop in AND a all day class on Saturday with a guest trainer so it’s been really fun so let’s start with Tuesday. Tuesday with C3Something This weeks lesson was taught by Shem, so […]
This week I was a week a improv where it was all about getting the fundamentals right in a scene – the who, the what and the where. Just like last week, there was a lot of new faces at improv and some that I hadn’t seen in […]
This week was another session of rehearsals for the show in April and forming the show even more. We had to cut it really short this week as one of our group had to go to a prior engagement and also I had a migraine so we wanted […]
This week it was all about planning for the show. The main aim was to try and get a concept nailed down so that we were ready to get into rehearsal mode. We talked about games we enjoyed playing, the amount of time we have in a show […]
If you are looking for a book that is easy to read and is all about the life of being on SNL and the American Improv scene then this is the book for you. The autobiography of Amy Poehler takes you on a journey that you may not […]
This weeks blog is a tad different from the others as last weeks lesson just consisted of warm up games to get the group feeling more comfortable together as two groups were merged this month. I felt I didn’t learn anything new so this post is instead focused […]
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 […]
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