Variety is the spice of improv I’ve learnt a lot performing in Story Kitchen recently, the new London TheatreSports show directed by Faye Brann. Faye is doing a great job of encouraging us to have variety in our improvisation, and across the whole show and evening. In fact variety is her main note after shows,[…]
Osho Leela I’m writing this on the train back from The Maydays Improv Retreat at Osho Leela in Dorset. I had such an amazingly lovely time that I want to get my thoughts and memories down before they get swallowed up by Clapham Junction. So here’s my random thoughts, memories and feelings from The Maydays[…]
Dealing with difficult audience suggestions Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla. Hoopla run improv and stand up courses, shows and an improv club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. We usually have our end of course shows on a Wednesday but last week it was a Saturday, and it was a lot[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla. Hoopla run improv classes, stand up comedy courses, shows and an improv theatre. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. We’ve been running improv workshops for over 10 years, but mainly for adults. We thought it would be fun to bring improv to a younger audience, as[…]
Booking shows Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla. Hoopla run improv classes, shows and an improv comedy club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. Hi everyone, This blog comes out of a conversation I had with one of the directors of a big improv group in a cafe the other day: Improv[…]
Improv in a nutshell I’ve had a break from all things improv over Christmas and New Year and I’m back into it all next week. I love coming back into improv after a short break as everything seems a bit clearer. I’ve forgotten loads of stuff that probably wasn’t very important anyway, and the things[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla Improv, improv classes, shows and improv theatre. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. Hi everyone, Hope you had a good Christmas. I love this bit of the year, the gap between Christmas and New Year, it’s a blissful oasis of solitary admin for me. I tinker[…]
Talk to each other about each other I just got asked on email about exercises that help coach relationships in improv, so I thought I’d share some of my favourites. Many thanks to Mark Beltzman and Andrew Gentilli for introducing me to lots of these, and to Conor for inspiring the blog. That makes me[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla improv classes, shows and improv theatre. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. I’m on a bit of a break from teaching and performing until September now, and I woke up with these happy memories of the year so far and thought I’d share: DANGER: DRAMA LUVVIE[…]
Not comparing yourself to others Recently I’ve had a few people in workshops who have been looking like they’ve been having a great time all workshop, have been really fun in all the games, and yet afterwards have revealed in the pub or over email that they actually felt like they were doing really ‘badly’[…]
The Spirit of Improv Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla Improv, courses, shows and improv club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. There are structural things to improv, the things that hold a show together and enable people to work together as a team, but underlying that is the spirit of improv.[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla Improv, courses, shows and improv club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. I get asked pretty often about drop-in workshops and other places to practice improv regularly, so I thought I’d put our recommendations together into a blog. If you can’t commit to a longer course,[…]