Day: Every Monday.

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+

Lots of techniques and exercises in starting a scene from nothing and build up a reality from scratch. Where who what. Emotional preparation and specific activities. Building an environment. Endowing yourself and the other characters. If you’ve got nothing, just do anything.  

One of the most essential, and yet often forgotten skills. How to constantly feed information and offers back into a game or scene, in order to keep a story on track and organically find an ending. It’s never to early to reincorporate.

In impro there are no mistakes, just offers floating around that haven’t been justified. How to improvise even when you think it’s going wrong, justify things that at first don’t make sense, and improvise with people who are blocking. Mistakes are your friend!  

“It’s Real It’s Real It’s Real”. One of our favourite improv mantras.

Treating the scene/game as if it’s real life, so that reactions, emotions, actions and humour naturally occur from within.  

Brand new workshop.

Who are you to the other person? Who is the other person to you? What’s your relationship? What’s your history together? How do you behave together? Naming, expanding and building the relationships in scenes.  

Techniques to improv your listening and become fully aware of the other actors and less worried about yourself. Pick up all the offers coming from the other actors - verbal, physical, emotional, deliberate and accidental. Learn how to be in total synch with the other performers.

Improvise more characters than you’ve ever done in your life. Get away from your default characters that you always do and open up some new characters you haven’t experienced before. Games and techniques for improvising fun believable characters from scratch.

If Keith Johnstone wrote another book, he said he’d have a whole chapter on ‘Being Altered’.

Allowing yourself to be altered by the other performers and offers in a scene, opening up to emotional reactions that put a spark into improv.

Being there, in the moment, completely aware of yourself, the audience, the other actors and the story without planning ahead or being distracted.

Techniques to make yourself more present.

A really fun collection of our favourite games to get everyone in good spirits for the summer.

Mix of old and new short form games and exercises.