Please see below for our current covid safety measures. This is so we can keep improv fun while also keeping safety in our classes and shows. We will also be able to adjust month by month and bring in additional changes if needed. Please don’t come to class if you have symptoms Please remember[…]
Risk Assessment Originally written in September 2020. From 19th July 2021 there are no legal restrictions on our classes or shows, however some of our covid safety measures will be staying in place and others will be gradually phased out rather than being removed all at once. This is so we can keep improv fun[…]
Hi everyone, Following the Black Lives Matter protests we spent some time talking to a number of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic teachers, performers and students to ask them how we could improve things for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic improvisers at Hoopla. We also shared a questionnaire throughout our wider audience in order[…]
Blog by Liam Brennan, teacher with Hoopla Impro. Liam is teaching an Online Performing Course starting on Monday 11th May 2020. As the worldwide improv community continues to make its exodus on to the online domain, day by day more discoveries are being made about the pitfalls and opportunities that our new medium presents. While many[…]
Kicking off the Hoopla Impro Podcast is the incomparable Monica Gaga! Monica is an improviser, facilitator, scripted actor and performer with Derek’s Mojo and Do The Right Scene to name but a few. For those who haven’t witnessed it, Monica is also one of the finest hosts of a comedy night you’re likely to see.[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro Book referenced is “Impro, improvisation and the theatre” by Keith Johnstone. This blog refers to pages 27-32 only! More coming soon as we work through the week. You can also check out notes from Day 1 of Keith Johnstones’s Impro. At Hoopla we’re exploring a different book[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro Book referenced is “Impro, improvisation and the theatre” by Keith Johnstone. This blog refers to the first 27 pages of the book only! More coming soon as we work through the week. At Hoopla we’re exploring a different book each week as inspiration for our online drop-ins. Each[…]
A quick guide to Game of the Scene Blog from Liam Brennan, who is running Hoopla’s Game of the Scene Course. Game of the Scene is a great way to improvise scenes that look like honed sketches to your audience. So what is Game of the Scene? It’s a repeated pattern of funny behaviour with[…]
This page is now out of date, please go to these links for more up to date info: >> Safety in classes >> Safety in shows >> Full booking flexibility >> Improv at 2m is still fun! >> Hoopla’s full risk assessment >> Government guidelines for performing arts Previous update from 2nd April[…]
This page is now out of date, please go to these links for more up to date info: >> Safety in classes >> Safety in shows >> Full booking flexibility >> Improv at 2m is still fun! >> Hoopla’s full risk assessment >> Government guidelines for performing arts Old message from 14th March[…]
The future of long-form Interview by Liam Brennan with Hoopla Steve. I had a sit down interview with Hoopla Steve, to ask him about the future of long-form improvisation for Hoopla’s improv classes and shows. He had some really interesting ideas about the direction it’s going in, taking inspiration from the original zeitgeist that created long-form improv[…]
What is Long-form Improv? So you’ve nearly finished your level three course and learned how to improvise awesome standalone scenes! So what’s next? Total freedom! Welcome to the world of long-form improv! In brief, long-form improv gives the players less restrictions and a lot more freedom to play. Is there a character you like? Keep[…]