This workshop is about OWNING the stage as a team. It’s about making improv big and bold and unashamedly theatrical. It’s about dialogue delivered with the confidence of the written word, movement that seems choreographed, plot twists and revelations that no one saw coming (least of all the performers). Ultimately it’s about raising your performance level, making even more interesting choices and leaning into the idea of improv as art. By the end of the workshop, we’ll have you walking on stage and improvising with a deep-rooted sense of focus and flair.

Teacher: Chris Mead (Hoopla Teacher, The Maydays, Project2).

The highlights of the Meisner Technique applied to improv in a fun light hearted way. Repetition exercises. Emotional calls. Independent activities and emotional preparation. Living truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

An exceptionally good technique for being totally in the present moment with the other person.

Teacher: Steve Roe (Director of Hoopla).

You may be bored of seeing 2 people standing in the middle of the stage and talking at each other. Be inspired by your physical world whilst keeping relationship at the heart of your scene.

Teacher: Maria Peters (Hoopla Teacher, The Playground, Breaking & Entering).

The most important thing on an improv stage is your scene partner.

So logically, as the only other real, living, breathing thing in the scene, your relationship to them is of the utmost importance. You can transform your improv by learning to forge an emotional connection with them.

Feel something – deeply, irrationally, completely and see how your scenes blossom in delightful and unfathomable ways.

This workshop will teach you a half-dozen performance grade techniques that you can use immediately to get out of your head and improvise from your heart. Whether you know your fellow improviser well or are playing with them for the first time, harness the life-changing power of giving a good goddamn about them.

Teacher: Chris Mead (Hoopla Teacher, The Maydays, Project2).

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Dreamweaver Quartet improvise a musical based on the dreams of the audience. Characters and stories interweave with musical soundscapes in a beautiful dreamlike world. Come and learn how to improvise songs inspired by your dreams.

Teachers: James Witt (Hoopla Teacher, Dreamweaver) and Rick Simpson (Dreamweaver).

Chesca performs with Dragprov, Criminal and Oxford Imps. Jordan with Showstoppers, Mischief Theatre and Whose Line Is It Anyway live show. Come join them on Saturday afternoon and have some fun improvising songs in various genres.

Teachers: Chesca Forristal and Jordan Clarke.