Day: Every Monday until August 2013.

Time: 7pm - 9:30pm.

Cost: £10. No need to book, just turn up.

Where: The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, Off Brick Lane, London, E1 5LJ.

Tube: Liverpool Street or Aldgate East or Shoreditch High St.  

Train: Liverpool Street or Shoreditch.

Ages: 17+

Techniques to improve your listening & become fully aware & present with other improvisers and the scene. Pick up all the offers coming from the other actor - verbal, physical, emotional, deliberate and accidental. Not just what was said & done, but how it was said & done.

How to be happy when making mistakes. In impro there are no mistakes, just offers floating around that haven’t been yes anded or justified. How to improvise even when you think it’s going wrong, justify things that at first don’t make sense and make them part of the game.

Remove your inner judge/critic and free yourself up to immediately say and do the first thing that comes to your head without hesitation.

Techniques to distract your intellect and release impulsive intuitive play.

Your obviousness is someone else’s originality.

How being obvious and staying within the ‘circle of expectation’ can actually lead to more creative stories than trying to be imaginative.

Heavily influenced by Keith Johnstone’s book Impro for Storytellers.

One of the most essential impro workshops ever. Saying ‘yes and’ to the other actors, the story, the character, the action, the offers that are pinging your way. Letting yourself go with the fun and action, so you can find yourself in new stories, characters and situations.

Entering a scene with emotion. Building a relationship with the other characters. Naming, expanding & deepening the relationship. Using honest real emotions. Being altered by the other performers & offers in a scene, opening up to emotional reactions to put a spark into improv.

There will be no Monday workshops in August.

Monday workshops will start again from Monday 2nd September 2013.

Happy Holidays!