Impro Tune Up!
Wednesday - 5th Feb - 5th March 2025 (5 weeks)
6:00-8:00pm
Spontaneous Theatre
These are fun two-hour workshops designed to tune up your improvisation. Play (spontaneity) is built into the heart of each. The sessions are appropriate for those who have some experience in improvisation and are looking for an intensive hit of impro creativity.
These tune up sessions will give you the skills and confidence to transfer them into your improvised work.
These are fun two-hour workshops designed to tune up your improvisation. Play (spontaneity) is built into the heart of each. The sessions are appropriate for those who have some experience in improvisation and are looking for an intensive hit of impro creativity.
These tune up sessions will give you the skills and confidence to transfer them into your improvised work.
Details and Key information:
There are 12 places available per week
Cost: £16 per session (equates to £8 per hour)
When: Runs for five weeks – Wednesday – 6:00- 8:00pm
Contact: To book a place please contact Mark Smith on the email: [email protected]
There are 12 places available per week
Cost: £16 per session (equates to £8 per hour)
When: Runs for five weeks – Wednesday – 6:00- 8:00pm
Contact: To book a place please contact Mark Smith on the email: [email protected]
Week 1: 5th Febuary 2024 – 6:00-8:00pm
Body as prop and scenic painting
This is a physical workshop in which you will explore how you can enhance improvised scenes through generating supporting image and prop. Working in this manner creates additional options for players to interact as well as enhance the experience for an audience.
Body as prop and scenic painting
This is a physical workshop in which you will explore how you can enhance improvised scenes through generating supporting image and prop. Working in this manner creates additional options for players to interact as well as enhance the experience for an audience.
Week 2: 12th Febuary 2024 – 6:00-8:00pm
Song and Sound effects
Very often people fear using their voice, this workshop debunks and teaches you how in easy stages to create original improvised song and develop sound effects. This is for improvisors who want to develop this skill area.
Song and Sound effects
Very often people fear using their voice, this workshop debunks and teaches you how in easy stages to create original improvised song and develop sound effects. This is for improvisors who want to develop this skill area.
Week 3: 19th January 2024 – 6:00-8:00pm
Building story & personal testimony
This is an intensive on how story is constructed and how this can be applied in your scene work. We will also explore how you can incorporate your own life experiences within your work – this will be primarily undertaken through monologues.
Building story & personal testimony
This is an intensive on how story is constructed and how this can be applied in your scene work. We will also explore how you can incorporate your own life experiences within your work – this will be primarily undertaken through monologues.
Week 4: 26th February 2024 – 6:0-8:00pm
Edits and Transitions (cut throughs)
The ability to edit and transition improvised scenes takes time to learn but employing them well enhances your work immeasurably. Often, we are scared to interrupt or interject, when in fact our fellow players are crying out to be edited. Through a simple set of exercises, you will learn how to trust your instinct and overcome that doubt.
Edits and Transitions (cut throughs)
The ability to edit and transition improvised scenes takes time to learn but employing them well enhances your work immeasurably. Often, we are scared to interrupt or interject, when in fact our fellow players are crying out to be edited. Through a simple set of exercises, you will learn how to trust your instinct and overcome that doubt.
Week 5: 4th March 2024 – 6:00-8:00pm
Rooting characters in the physical
We all remember shapes. Starting from this premise we will explore how to create distinctive characters that are visually memorable to our fellow players. Very often we walk in upright, using our own rhythm. This can lead to confusion of what character you are. In this workshop we will explore how to play against our own natural rhythm, shape and unlock characters that we did not know existed.
Rooting characters in the physical
We all remember shapes. Starting from this premise we will explore how to create distinctive characters that are visually memorable to our fellow players. Very often we walk in upright, using our own rhythm. This can lead to confusion of what character you are. In this workshop we will explore how to play against our own natural rhythm, shape and unlock characters that we did not know existed.