Hello Ruth,
Our one-day workshops and drop-ins can be found on our courses page. You’ll see a filter system above the events, for drop-ins, just deselect the ALL tab and then click drop-ins. Our longer one-day workshops can be found by selecting courses in the filter system. If you need any further assistance, pop us an email to mayday@themaydays.co.uk and we’ll email you links to all the one-day and drop-ins for ease 🙂 All the best,
The Maydays x

I love the lessons (with Jenny Rowe) because of the immediacy, those electrifying moments of being there, on the spot and often astonished at what has just come out of my mouth or the playground poses my body has adopted.

But there’s also the post-play perfectionism, a constant battle for someone like me who has spent most of their life struggling with their inner critic.

In the end, just as with everything else my therapy has taught me, the fact is that it was “good enough”, and It’s an act of courage to even attempt the form at all when most people panic at the very idea of improv (including my therapist!). Be proud that you stepped forward, opened your mouth and that _anything_ coherent emerged.

I realise that there’s a parallel with something else I love: watercolour painting, another art form where there’s no going back. Unlike oils, which you can scrape back or daub over for hours, days even, watercolours are merciless. So you learn to live with whatever arrives on the paper and work with it. Some of the best passages in a painting can be pure accidents, the serendipity of paint, water and paper interacting randomly.

So be proud of what you do, Liz. Your experience, practice and courage mean that you’re more often at the top of the stairs rather than the bottom.

Loving the sideways shot Harry! And you’ll be pleased to know Climate Guilt Club was included on the Improv platter 🙂 x

It’s not pure comedic improv, but this has a lot of improv in it: https://www.brightonfringe.org/venues/climate-guilt-club-164222/

It’s one of Maggie Gordon-Walker’s Uncorked interactive/experiential events.

For reasons I simply do not understand, it is illustrated by a sideways photo of me in character in a previous Uncorked show…

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