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Class: What’s Happening Now? Day: Friday Time: 11:45 – 1:15 If I was going to pull out a theme from my personal experience of this year’s Improv Retreat it would be “Stop Working So Hard”. It seemed to be something I was saying in all my classes from Short Form With Soul to Game...
by Katy Schutte 1.Craig Cackowski is great. His class ‘Sell It’ was the most fun I’ve had in an improv class for a while and rather than making this introvert make increasingly big and silly choices (which was my guess) he showed us all a really good time and reminded us how joy is the...
By Rhiannon Vivian ‘Consistency is the greatest gift you can give to another human,’ – Chris Mead. Certain quotes stay in your consciousness. In particular those which not only apply to stage life, but real life too. And this is one I’ve been meaning to write about for a while (thanks Chris!) Chris is a...
By Jason Blackwater I already miss The Maydays I shan’t be leaving until January but I can already feel the absence of them that will hit me far too soon after my final show, or rehearsal, or social gathering, whenever that may be. Last nights (4/9/15) Confessions show symbolised pretty much every element of The Maydays...
By Lloydie James Lloyd As part of a series of blogs on overcoming that moment where you feel you’ve lost your improv mojo, I’ve written to a number of improv greats from around the world asking their advice. How have they overcome moments when they felt bad about their improv? How do they up their game? The second...
By Katy Schutte Do you remember the day you found out about Santa? For me it’s the same as they day I found out that improv isn’t maths. I had a teacher who totally contradicted what another teacher said. I really didn’t know what to do with that for a while. I imagined there must...
By Katy Schutte I’m a teacher, which means that I’m also a learner. Since I got back from Edinburgh, I’ve learned from a bunch of really great teachers. I have so many notes, so many ongoing goals and I just want to share with you some of the wisdom that I’ve taken with me. I’ve...
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...
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