Improv
The awesome Emma Bird recently set up Liverpool Comedy Improv weekly drop-in in association with The Maydays. Just months old, it’s already proving pretty popular… ‘I recently relocated from Brighton to my hometown a few months ago. Liverpool has changed a lot in the 22 years since I last lived here. It’s a very hipster, independently...
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...
by Liz Peters Over the years I’ve learned bucket loads of things from improv. These are the top 3 things that have helped me enjoy being a real life Human Being more. 1: Be Here Now There ain’t no other place you can be. All we have is now – all we’ve ever had is now....
By Rhiannon Vivian ‘It’s your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you probably are.’ – Nick Cave We’re obsessed with running through life. So pre-occupied with what we should be achieving each year, so fixed on pre-prescribed life goals, expectations, peer pressure whatever you want to call it, that we often feel...
I have been slow to write this blog. In fact, I am the reason we failed to manage ten blogs in ten days. That was my fault. I have let down the internet and I am sorry. The truth is, I find writing blogs very hard. Words don’t trip out of me the way they...
Day: Sunday Time: 10am Class: Perverts and Fuck-ups The job of drawing up the first draft of the Osho Leela class schedule is a daunting one. 76 classes over 4 days not including the evening shows and jams. Each year, I need to have a look at last year’s schedule, the student requests, the teacher...
Day: Thursday Time: 5pm Class: I Need a Hero This was my 6th Maydays residential in Dorset. Like most of the Maydays, I teach several days a week, but there is definitely something unique about Osho Leela. I love to be out in the sticks, walking to my class across dewy grass, past last night’s...
Day: Saturday Time: 3:00 Class: Togetherness Creating improv with one other person is pretty cool. As you increase the number of people involved the stakes certainly become higher. The risks of a big group scene going wrong if you don’t work on group skills is high, but when it clicks it is a truly beautiful...
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