Stand Up at Hoopla

Stand Up For The First Time Stand up for the first time. Last night at The Miller. 20 people doing stand up for the first time or almost first time, including me. I don’t quite know where to start with this one. It was completely mental. Apparently also I was completely mental, although actually I[…]

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Katy project2

Buzz Bit of a buzz at The Miller last night. We had a full venue, a chap coming all the way from Wales to see the show, and the one and only Tim Sniffen from Baby Wants Candy in the audience and Jules from The Nursery. Well done Marbles (Dave Waller & Ryan Millar) and[…]

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Steve Roe stage

Three Shows in Three Days I’ve just had the good fortune of performing in three completely different shows in three days, featuring four different groups. A couple of years ago performing in three shows would have taken about 4 months, and performing in completely different shows wouldn’t have happened at all, so I feel very[…]

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Audience Laughing 2 bw

Flyering in Earl’s Court I was under the impression that everyone in England was doing impro at the moment, and that everyone had a show to sell. I was even under the impression that most of the UK were in an improvised musical. After spending the morning flyering for Music Box at Earl’s Court station[…]

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City Impro outside The Miller

Fingers on Buzzards It was the first night at The Miller last night and it opened with Fingers on Buzzards – it was so awesome! For a start the bar staff are really friendly and helpful and very encouraging of what we’re doing there. There are now posters and flyers all over the place and[…]

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Lots of stuff happening at once Hello, Lot’s of things going on at the same time at the moment which is very exciting. We’ve got the shows at The Miller starting tomorrow with Fingers on Buzzards, and then we also have The Maydays performing with us next Tuesday which is awesome. I currently have two[…]

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People laughing at Hoopla impro workshop

First Thursday in new venue That was awesome! We had our first Thursday workshop in the new venue last night and it went really well. Thanks to everyone for coming and making it special. It was great to actually see everyone’s faces with actual real lights! Hurrah. Also there is a kitchen so I’m going[…]

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Hoopla night

Back in London The title Back in London, at a post-Edinburgh date, would usually spark a negative blog about returning to real life. But actually I’m feeling more positive about things than ever right now, probably so much so it’s slightly sickening to the outside world. Well outside world, I’m going to sicken you. I’ve[…]

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remote rewind fast forward

Edinburgh TV Festival Just got back from the Edinburgh International Television Festival and my head is still spinning. So much happened over 4 days that I can’t possible write it all so there’s going to be some more general impressions from me. I was lucky enough to get on the Fast Track scheme for the[…]

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Faculty Rectangle

Edinburgh Festival 2 Just had another couple of exciting days in Edinburgh and some great chats with some amazing people so feeling inspired. There was an impro symposium organised by The Maydays with loads of the improvisers attending, thanks Heather from The Maydays for doing such a grand job of putting that together! Following on[…]

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Maria Peters Edinburgh bw

Edinburgh Festival 1 I’ve been here about 4 days now and have seen lots of shows. I’m not performing but I’m doing lots of courses and show watching in preparation for next year. Some of the shows I’ve seen are below, I don’t want to turn into a reviewer so I’m only mentioning the good[…]

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Hoopla and The Maydays Hoopla Cast: Steve, Edgar, Maria, Becca, Georgina Maydays Cast: John Cremer, Alexis Gallagher, Jason Delplanque and Liz Peters with Joe on piano. The Black Horse, 18th August 2010 I initially started out with my typical pre-show stresses of ‘are enough people going to come?’ and ‘is the room looking okay?’. These[…]

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