Comments on: Osho Leela Diaries: John https://www.themaydays.co.uk/osho-leela-diaries-john/ Improvised Comedy Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:44:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Angie ('Sandra') https://www.themaydays.co.uk/osho-leela-diaries-john/#comment-116 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:43:41 +0000 https://www.themaydays.co.uk/?p=1257#comment-116 I loved ‘Pressure Cooker’ and would do it again. After 90mins immersed in it I felt like I’d been in an extended episode of a tense psychological TV drama perhaps somewhere between ‘prisoner cell block H’ and ‘the office’! It felt like the nearest thing I’d experienced to being a ‘serious’ actor. That in itself was reward enough for me and it didn’t need to be comedy.

On a still more serious note it was a really interesting process for me to go through professionally (related to my day job in mental health services) because although this was exaggerated/ parodied patronising par excellence by John’s character ‘Roger’, I wondered if being on the receiving end of this might help me to increase my awareness of any ways in which I or the structure of a service might disempower people even if in much more subtle ways. I did wonder if there could be an application for this in training staff.

Thanks John for holding it all together, very impressive.

]]> By: Joy https://www.themaydays.co.uk/osho-leela-diaries-john/#comment-115 Thu, 02 Oct 2014 19:40:19 +0000 https://www.themaydays.co.uk/?p=1257#comment-115 As one of the ‘inmates’ this was a highlight for me at the festival.. Improvising a characer for a sustained time like that, and getting deeper into the anger/frustration/adaptations you have to make to fit in – or not- into such a crazy set up was stretching and I found it alot of ‘fun’ too… not as a performer, but as an improvisor trying to stay present to whatever was being offered by that control freak. Great practice, good stuff!

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