Acting Archives - The Maydays

Silence in Improv: Interview with Rebecca MacMillan

Heather Urquhart — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:03:14 +0000

Silence in Improv: Interview with Rebecca MacMillan Your course ‘Beyond Words’ focussing on silence in improv starts soon. What gave you the idea for this course? For me, there are two things about silence in improv. I realised some years back that in my own improvisation my ‘panic response’ is to be overly verbal....

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EveryBody, Yeah: Our Bodies In Improv

Lel — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:36:26 +0000

A guest blog from Rita Suszek I’m not interested in how people move: I’m interested in what makes them move Pina Bausch Lockdown, day 7998375. My unruly body only accepts leggings and sweatpants; I eat my fears and try to moderate my information intake. Going for walks sounds both nice and risky. Face covering is...

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Online improv tips to help onstage improv

Heather Urquhart — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 11:26:29 +0000

Online improv tips to help onstage improv These last few weeks have been tough for many of us and we all have different ways of coping. Mine has been to try and carry on in as normal a way as possible by trying to do the things I normally do. For me, that’s the...

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RETREAT ’15 DIARIES: HEATHER

Heather Urquhart — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:33:48 +0000

The Leela Bubble By Heather Urquhart The Maydays Improv Retreat is my happy place, no doubt about it and this year more than ever I was desperate to cross the magical threshold into Leela living. The previous 2 months had been crazy busy and I’d come out of a 4 show Edinburgh Festival, straight...

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Struggle and value: How we should celebrate stuff that comes naturally to us

Rhiannon Vivian — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:50:39 +0000

By Rhiannon Vivian Do you ever feel you’ve cheated somehow if you find certain stuff easy and fun? Whatever that thing is, do you tend to judge it as being less valuable and not worth as much as things you really labour over? Have you even actively thrown yourself a curve ball to try and...

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Spotlight on: Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story

Admin Luther — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:55:00 +0000

An Improv Blog About Acting For Improvisers Who Act And Actors Who Improvise This week I came back to Brighton and to the Theatre Royal with Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story and this has led me to think about whether or not improv skills apply to the acting world. I set about to try and...

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Going Beserk

Rebecca McMillan — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:55:00 +0000

by Rebecca MacMillan First: It’s Father’s Day this Sunday. You forgot? Don’t panic! Get your Dad a gift and help the Maydays by pledging on our Edinburgh Kickstarter project (we have 7 days to raise just less than a grand). Three ideas out of our many offers to pledgers: 1) Tickets to a Maydays show,...

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Don’t be the ‘Asshole’

Jenny Rowe — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:55:00 +0000

by Jenny Rowe THIS IS A BLOG ABOUT FAILURE… …ironically, I failed to write it the first time, but I re-committed and added a ton of enthusiasm so now it’s here. So I suppose that’s an improv lesson right there. This is a slightly embarrassing foray into my improv journey, focusing on something I bring up with...

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