People I tend to enjoy the small moments of life more than the big moments, it’s in the small moments that I find genuine happiness. If I ever get to perform at sold out gig at the O2, I’d be most happy about the cheese and pickle sandwiches in the green room. For me Osho...
Day: Sunday Time: 10am Class: Deliciously Dramatic I love Osho Leela. It is a genuine highlight of my year. Getting to immerse myself in a bubble with awesome people who like messing about and making stuff up too! Besides being super fun it also means that the classes can go deeper than they do in...
Day: Saturday Time 3:00-6:30 Class: The Deconstruction In my humble opinion, the best way to really get your head around a subject or a concept is to teach it to someone else. You’re never more in the moment than when you’re teaching and that’s when you find things you didn’t think you were looking for....
Day: Saturday Time: 3pm Class: Dali Is My Teapot The guy at the Newsagent who looks like the secret love child of Bez and Pinocchio and talks exclusively in clichés, that lady off the telly who pronounces all ‘e’s as ‘a’s, the lady you did temping with who had a laugh that echoed the...
Day: Sunday Time: 11:45 Class: The Pressure Cooker One of the benefits of teaching a residential improv festival is working with participants who are already in the zone when they walk in the room. There is a sparkle and an openness which means there is no need for warm ups. For this reason I ran...
- 2nd October 2014
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Day: Thursday Time: 11:45 Class: Being Yourself “There will be times in this class where you will feel uncomfortable” I was somewhat hesitant about teaching this, a class that I’d experimented with in a drop in, as it had turned pretty intense at that time and the performance benefits aren’t immediately obvious. It involves some...
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...
The difference between schools of improv is sometimes becoming an ugly slanging match – so much so that we aren’t honouring each other or our art form enough. I like spirited debate but I can’t help but feel we would do better by celebrating the diversity of thought in our growing art form rather than...
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