Hoopla are the UK’s first improv theatre and the UK’s biggest improv school with fun and friendly improv shows and classes every day of the week in London and across the UK. We provide fantastic ongoing performing opportunities to students from our courses and a warm, welcoming and supportive community to help make improv for everyone.
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Categories
Warm Ups
These are played at the start of all of our courses to help you get out of work mode and into the fun zone!
Warm Ups
Name Games
Ice Breakers / Get to know you
Opening Ceremonies
Closing Ceremonies
Random Fun Games / Breakaways
Core Improv Skills
These are the main focus of our Level 1 Beginners Improv Course and covered in depth on that course. These give you the foundations to go on to learn any other form of improv. They are also covered at the start of each session of our higher level courses as we believe it’s essential to keep practice the core skills of improv on a regular basis.
Listening
Support and Teamwork
Group Mind
Agreement / Accepting
Being Obvious / Real / Top of Intelligence / Not Gagging
Yes And / Accept and Build
Commitment
Spontaneity
Offers / Endowments / Statements
Fun with Mistakes / Incorporating Mistakes
Positivity / Delaying Conflict
Character / Emotions / Relationships
These are touched on in our Level 1 Course but covered properly in more detail in our Level 2 Course and especially on our Level 3 Course.
Character
Emotions
Relationships / Talk to Each Other About Each Other
Status
Meisner
Truth and Honesty / Saying How You Feel
Objectives
Movement / Physicality
Scene Work
These are covered to epic depth on our level 3 course where you will become awesome at improvising scenes. We also touch on various elements of scene work in our level 1 and level 2 course, but level 3 is where you become you the ultimate improv scene ninja.
Who What Where / Platforms / Exploring / Identifying each other
Environment / Space work
Object Work / Mime
Fun Thing / Game of Scene / Patterns in Scenes
Tilt / Fun thing / Unusual thing
Escalating / Heightening
Justifying
Advancing / Bridging / Now / Cutting to the Chase
Reincorporating
Scene structures
Show Styles & Formats
At our higher level courses you get to learn a different show style or format per course and then perform that format live in front of an audience at our venue at the end of the course.
Short-Form Games
Long-Form Formats
Solo Improv
Musical Improv
Narrative Improv
If there are any other categories you’d like to see here please get in touch and we will add them to the list.
Hoopla are the UK’s first improv theatre and the UK’s biggest improv school with fun and friendly improv shows and classes every day of the week in London and across the UK. We provide fantastic ongoing performing opportunities to students from our courses and a warm, welcoming and supportive community to help make improv for everyone.
If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter containing helpful improv resources, casting calls for new shows and news about the improv scene please subscribe.