Hoopla Fresh A weekly FREE stand up show every Monday at Hoopla featuring new acts and people who have recently finished Hoopla’s stand up courses and sketch comedy courses PLUS special guests performing new material. Dates: Every Monday (except if we have an end of course show on). Times: Doors open 7:30pm, show 8pm –[…]
Hoopla Main Stage Every Friday AND Every Saturday, 8pm – 10pm, Hoopla at The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London Bridge, SE1 3SS. This is the best in improv featuring our most experienced Hoopla House Teams, Hoopla teachers, professional groups featuring people who trained with Hoopla, and special guests from the UK improv scene. At our[…]
Hoopla Pre-Party Saturdays, 6pm – 7:30pm, FREE, Hoopla at The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London Bridge, SE1 3SS. This is a great place for your show to start. This is a fun free show of up and coming new Hoopla House Teams, new groups formed at Hoopla courses, and guest groups developing new formats. This[…]
Hoopla Clubhouse Every Thursday, 8pm – 10pm, Hoopla at The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London Bridge, SE1 3SS. A weekly night of improv featuring our Hoopla House Teams plus special guests. This is where people on our established house teams get to perform every week and build up a huge amount of stage experience before[…]
Mind Meld Description The goal is for two people to say things together until they reach the same word. It begins by one person saying “one,” the second person saying “two,” and then both people counting to three together. They then say anything at all – a person, place, idea, concept, phrase: anything. Then we[…]
Mimic Description Everyone stands in a circle and one person says something. It can be a movie quote, song lyric or something from real life. The next person in the circle observes the person saying the quote and then mimics exactly what they heard and how it was said to the next person in circle.[…]
Genre Cauldron Description Players gather round a cauldron. As they call out genres of film/plays/TV they throw tropes from that style into the cauldron. Example If the genre is “Horror Movie” they could throw into the cauldron ‘Jump scares, high school jock, Phone disconnected / no coverage, red herring suspects, abandoned place, revenge, shadows, lights[…]
Character Study Description Students chose a random stranger who is very different to them, in gender/build/age etc. They create a backstory for that person. They go about their day as that character, focusing on their life, physicality and voice. Characters can be hot seated, by asking a range of questions about their hopes, dreams, fears,[…]
Beyoncé Description A game from Hoopla teacher James Witt: I get my students to line up in Rolodex formation and do short scenes with varying restrictions. First of all, we play “Who, Where, What” three line scenes. If the players fail to name both characters in the scene then the other players in the Rolodex[…]
Shared Holiday Description In pairs players talk about a shared holiday they went on. Each sentence starts with “Yes And”. Example A: “Remember when we went snorkelling in Ibiza?” B: “Yes, and we saw that enormous fish!” A: “Yes, and it started eating your flipper” B: “Yes, and we got back on the boat just[…]
Week in Detail Description A good warm up that you can do in the pub before a show! Split up into pairs. Each tells the other person their whole week but in immense detail. Did you have to take the plastic wrap off the top off your listerine mouthwash on Tuesday morning? Tell them. Then[…]
Word at a Time Expert Description Three players stand next to each other shoulder to shoulder to play one entire person (or in this case an expert in something), who speaks one word at at time. Then another player plays the interviewer. All you need from the audience is something for someone to be an[…]