Maydays

Acting Versus Reacting
The Maydays have been recruiting. Last night we held our most recent audition and with some success I might add. The strongest collective of auditionees I’ve certainly seen in my 2 and a half year stint as a Mayday and hopefully someone new will don the coveted grey shirt of destiny in the coming months....
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How to get better at Improvising
I was teaching the Maydays Drop in class recently and two of the students who are recent converts to improv and now completely obsessed with the form (you know who you are you two!) cornered me afterwards and asked me, “How do we get to be good?!” I gave them my best answer but came...
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The Prasadam Adventure
One thing that I hope improv has brought to my life in the wider sense is the abilty to be open to anything so when John suggested that the Maydays spend the day with a spiritual Guru called Prasadam who he described as a cross between the Dalai Lama and Spike Milligan I knew I...
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POYNINGS MAYDAYS XMAS
Happy Xmas everyone (yes i know it’s a bit late but us Maydays always celebrate with a trip to Poynings in the new year). Today we’ve been treated to an amazing meal by Tom and John, penguin impressions from Isaac, a lovely walk round Devil’s Dyke, and the company of ALL THE MAYDAYS and their...
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