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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by Rhiannon Vivian Recently I read a positive review of the Inbetweeners new movie, which is cool because I love it. Then when I got to the end, the reviewer said: ‘In the auditorium it was all 20-30 something guys with old mates and sympathetic partners.’ Sympathetic partners? Is there no possibility their partners were enjoying...
- 3rd September 2014
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Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce invited fellow Mayday Heather and me to run an improvisation workshop at their recent annual conference. The theme of the day was “Adventure” and our session was titled “Dare to Improvise” 18 fairly nervous delegates appeared and for 17 of them it was their first time improvising. We set...
What do you do when you want to kick your life in the nuts and indulge your unending passion for improv? You book a 201 class at Upright Citizen’s Brigade, buy a flight to New York, pack your bags and shoot yourself 30,000 feet into the sky.On January 4 I landed in New York for what began as...
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 Maydays will be celebrating a decade this May. As we approach our 10th Birthday we present a series of blogs dedicated to the various side projects we are each involved in from improv to West End musicals to business improv. Katy Schutte and Joe Samuel are both members of the Maydays. They worked with...
The Maydays will be celebrating a decade this May. As we approach our 10th Birthday we present a series of Blogs dedicated to the various side projects we are each involved in from improv to West end musicals to business improv. Heather Urquhart and Jules Munns are both members of the Maydays and improvise in...
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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