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The most fun & friendly place to learn improv in the UK.
Our improv classes and courses are open to everyone, no previous experience of impro, acting or comedy needed. Complete beginners are welcome. Improv is for everyone.
We have the most experienced teachers in the UK who create a warm & supportive atmosphere where you are free to play and be yourself.
Hoopla have been running for over 14 years and are the UK’s biggest improvisation training school, teaching 1000s of people every year.
Hoopla are the founders of the UK’s 1st improv comedy club. Recommended by Time Out, The Evening Standard, The Metro and The Daily Telegraph.
Our theatre has shows 7 nights a week featuring people who have trained with Hoopla, and a warm welcoming community for you to join and support you with ongoing performance opportunities.
Hoopla also provide fun and engaging corporate training for clients including Google, Facebook, Apple, ITV, Accenture, PWC, Imperial College, World Economic Forum, AMV BBDO, Linked In, NBC Universal, London Business School & Comedy Central.
The capital’s best improv. The UK’s first improv comedy club.
The BEST course I have ever done in London - learned some amazing new skills that can be applied in both personal and professional lives and the funniest 2.5 hours a week I can remember!
In one class, I laughed so hard that I cried, full-on shaking with laughter, as tears streamed down my face.
Great place to go and watch amazing improv. The best comedy venue to watch improvised comedy in London.
The supportive atmosphere ensures that even complete beginners will have the confidence to grow their skills.
Hoopla's workshops are supportive and collaborative.
Epic epic epic place. Crazy fun. Took an improv course with Hoopla, it was the best ever. Don't hesitate to go there, just go!!!
I felt empowered and energised. So much so that I took the next course level and did my first public performance.
If improvisation floats your boat you should head to Hoopla. There’s fewer better ways to see what spur-of-the-moment comedy London has to offer.
Improv does not find a better home, than at Hoopla in London.
The finest off-the-cuff troupes on the circuit.
Signing up for improv classes helped my shyness to melt away.
Sign up! It's the most fun you can have as an adult without being medicated
Everywhere you look, huge grins suggest an enthusiasm and an attentiveness that is rarely seen in a course.
Thanks for the workshop. All the feedback has been extremely positive! The team loved it!
Hoopla always puts on the best nights and is an amazing supportive place to learn! Have nothing but great things to say about them.... Get involved EVERYONE!!!
My anxiety evaporated in that room. My stage fright transformed into excitement, and I became dynamic, more spontaneous. Happier.
This introduction to improvisation will teach the skills you'll need to master scenes, stories and sketches in a relaxed environment.
The workshop really helps you internalise important skills like really listening, not dismissing others’ ideas out of hand and allowing yourself to speak up.
I now regularly try to make room for improv and play time in my life. The three hours of laughter do wonders for my stress levels, and afterwards I sleep without a care.
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Level 1: Beginners improv course
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Level 2: Performance improv course
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Level 3: Scenes improv course
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Level 4: Long-form course
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Level 5: Advanced improv courses
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Ongoing performing opportunities
Hoopla also do drop-in workshops, taster days, stand up courses and sketch courses.
Already done some improv or acting training and not sure where to start? Go to our FAQ to find out!
August
- Mon 19th AugCourse starts: emotional connection intensive>
- Mon 19th AugWorkshop: BEGINNERS TASTER/BACK TO BASICS>
- Mon 26th AugWORKSHOP: BANK HOLIDAY FUN TIMES>
September
- Mon 2nd Septcourse starts: beginners>
- Thu 5th SeptWorkshop: Character>
- Mon 9th Septcourse starts: beginners>
- Mon 9th SeptCourse starts: Level 2 Performance>
- Mon 9th SeptCourse Starts: Level 3 Scenes>
- Mon 9th SeptCourse starts: level 4 long-form>
- Mon 9th SeptCourse starts: Sketch>
- Mon 9th SeptWorkshop: Character>
- Tue 10th SeptCourse starts: Level 2 Performance>
- Tue 10th SeptCourse Starts: Level 3 Scenes>
- Tue 10th SeptCourse Starts: Level 3 Scenes>
- Tue 10th SeptCourse starts: level 4 long-form>
- Tue 10th SeptCourse Starts: Improvised Science Fiction>
- Wed 11th SeptCourse starts: Level 2 Performance>
- Wed 11th SeptCourse starts: level 4 long-form>
- Wed 11th SeptCourse starts: Emotional connection>
- Wed 11th SeptCourse starts: Harold>
- Thu 12th Septcourse starts: beginners>
- Thu 12th SeptCourse starts: level 4 long-form>
- Thu 12th SeptCourse starts: Deconstruction>
- Thu 12th SeptCourse starts: Tomes>
- Thu 12th SeptWorkshop: BEGINNERS TASTER/BACK TO BASICS>
- Sat 14th Septcourse starts: beginners>
- Sat 14th SeptWorkshop: BEGINNERS TASTER/BACK TO BASICS>
- Mon 16th Septcourse starts: beginners>
- Mon 16th SeptCourse starts: Level 3 Scenes>
- Mon 16th SeptWorkshop: BEGINNERS TASTER/BACK TO BASICS>
- Tue 17th SeptCourse starts: Level 2 Performance>
- Tue 17th SeptWorkshop: BEGINNERS TASTER/BACK TO BASICS>
- Wed 18th SeptCourse starts: Level 2 Performance>
- Wed 18th SeptWorkshop: BEGINNERS TASTER/BACK TO BASICS>
- Thu 19th SeptCourse starts: level 3 scenes>
- Thu 19th SeptCourse Starts: Sketch for Radio>
- Thu 19th SeptWORKSHOP: SCENES>
- Sat 21st SeptWORKSHOP: SCENES SCenes scenes>
- Wed 25th Septcourse starts: beginners>
- Thu 26th Sept WORKSHOP: CLOWNING FOR IMPROVISERS>
- Sat 28th SeptWorkshop: BEGINNERS TASTER/BACK TO BASICS>
- Mon 30th SeptWorkshop: SCENES>
November
- Sat 9th NovCourse starts: STAGECRAFT INTENSIVE>
London improv classes & courses
Our classes are incredibly fun and enjoyable. Hoopla create a really safe, trusting, supportive and playful atmosphere and there is a lot of laughter in the room!
Our teachers inspire people to try all of the different styles of improvisation including short-
We teach through play and aim to help you discover the joy of improvising.
We support and encourage all styles of improvised comedy and theatre and have built up a vibrant, welcoming, open to all community of improvisers. Even after our courses we continue to work with our improvisers to help them be part of the UK’s rapidly growing community.
Our Level 1: Beginners Improv Course is an 8 week course for beginners to learn the core skills of improvisation in a fun, friendly and supportive environment. You don’t need any drama, acting, comedy or impro experience whatsoever.
Our Level 2: Performance Improv Course is an 8 week course to gently introduce you into performing on stage for the first time, with a showcase performance of short-
Our Level 3: Scenes Improv Course is our ultimate scenes course to make you awesome at improvising character and relationship driven scenes in a fun, playful and spontaneous Hoopla style! With a show at the end.
Our Level 4: Long Form Improv Course is an 8 week course exploring longer scenes in greater depth, and how to have fun connecting scenes together with tags and edits. With a showcase performance at the end.
Our Level 5: Advanced Long-Form Courses offer the chance to learn and perform a variety of different styles including improvised narrative, improvised movies, improvised theatre, character, harolds, clown, and musicals.
People from Hoopla courses receive amazing ongoing performing opportunities with the chance to perform on a weekly basis in one of the Hoopla House Teams at Hoopla’s Theatre.