by Katy Schutte It’s definitely worth spending a lot of time getting really, really good at improv. Those 10,000 hours take a while though, so it’s nice to have a couple of tips. Watching a lot of new improvisers I notice the same tells over and over again that broadcast them as such. There’s already...
- 14th January 2014
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By Jason Delplanque Is there an ideal combination/balance of performers to do a show? Surely as improvisers we should be able to be adaptable and say “yes and”, and be able to perform with anyone, right? I’ve been struggling with this idea/theory for a long time. I look at double-acts, I appreciate they’re not improvisers...
by Rebecca MacMillan First: It’s Father’s Day this Sunday. You forgot? Don’t panic! Get your Dad a gift and help the Maydays by pledging on our Edinburgh Kickstarter project (we have 7 days to raise just less than a grand). Three ideas out of our many offers to pledgers: 1) Tickets to a Maydays show,...
Stanislavski The Stanislavski system of Objectives refers to a character’s wants within a play. He theorised that the character will always want to achieve something by the end of the play and that every decision they make should lead them towards that goal in some way. Improvised Theatre This also applies to Improvised Theatre...
by Heather Urquhart If you’re an improviser, chances are you’ve heard or used the expression ‘being too in your head’. In my experience this phrase normally has negative connotations. ‘Hey guys why wasn’t our show so great tonight?’ ‘We were too in our heads’ or ‘I totally froze in that scene, I way too up...
- 14th May 2013
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by Joe Samuel Im.pro.vise: /?impr??v?z/ Origin: Latin improvisus, equivalent to im “not”+ pro-“ahead”+videre-“to see” Not looking forward Not to see ahead. A strange edict for improvisers. After all, without looking ahead how are we to negotiate a scene or a song? So the time has come for a new word. A new way of defining...
by Liz Peters We all have bodies. Some have big ones, some have small ones. There are brown ones, white ones, squidgy ones, bony ones… We are all so wonderfully different but essentially made from the same mould. And we all use our bodies to instinctively communicate with one another. Every action, movement and gesture...
by Jason Delplanque I believe that all good improvisation is much like baking. If you don’t follow the recipe you’re going to land up with egg on your face! Now I know you’re all going to be throwing your hands up in the air and say, “improv has no rules, you fool!” Yes, I agree...
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