A fun and friendly night featuring various new groups, new shows and new formats. Featuring new improvisers as well as experienced improvisers trying out new stuff. This is the place for improvisers to experiment, try out new stuff, get more stage time, get some more experience and have some fun in one big night of[…]
Other nights booking improv groups Hoopla: See performing opportunities at Hoopla. The Miller: All of Hoopla’s shows are based at The Miller and the pub also sometimes has other spots available outside of Hoopla. The Nursery: This is a great theatre who we also work closely with. They are also great at developing new improv shows, sometimes[…]
Where to form a group Extending a house team run Our house teams have a set run with a Hoopla director. After that many of them put the effort to keep going as an independent group. In fact many of our main weekend groups started out like that including Michelle, The Descendents, Gamez and more.[…]
Welcome to the Hoopla Improv Podcast! The podcast all about the who, what and where of improv. Each week, I’ll be chatting to some of the best improvisers from the Hoopla faculty and beyond as we explore their favourite improv exercises, top tips, behind the scenes gossip and who they would want at their dream[…]
Improv (also known as Impro, Improvised Comedy or Improvisation) is the art of spontaneously acting and reacting to the other actor in the moment to create comedy or theatre from scratch. In the theatre improv usually takes the form of actors turning audience suggestions into totally spontaneous and unrehearsed scenes, games, stories and sketches. The[…]
Improv Books These all support our improv classes, in fact many of them are even written by our teachers! Impro by Keith Johnstone. Impro for Storytellers by Keith Johnstone. Truth in Comedy by Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson. Improvise! by Max Dickins (Hoopla teacher and our Director of Corporate Training). Improv by John Cremer[…]
Here’s a list of various terms and things that pop up in Hoopla’s improv classes. There’s also some helpful things in our improv resources section including lists of exercises, games, blogs, podcasts, videos and books. A Accepting Saying “yes” to the reality presented by other performers. Doesn’t mean always literally saying “yes”, saying “no” can[…]
Beginners Improv Exercises Here’s a list of our favourite improv exercises for people who are doing a beginners improv course with Hoopla. Hoopla is based in London and is the UK’s biggest improv school and UK’s 1st improv theatre. Our next beginners improv course start next month. If you would like to receive our monthly[…]
These are various videos of shows, interviews and how-to guides that support the classes and courses at Hoopla Improv. And if you want to see improv live on stage come and check out a show at our improv theatre in London Bridge, where we have shows running every night of the week featuring people who[…]
Charity Work In 2017 and 2018 we ran charity fundraiser shows for Cancer Research UK, Parkinsons UK, Pride, Trees for Cities, Shelter and more. In 2015 we raised over £1000 for Macmillan Cancer Support, in memory of improviser Chris Werren, with a combination of shows, Marathons and other fundraising events. In 2015 we also raised[…]
Introduction At Hoopla we bring the joy of improv to people in a fun and friendly way. We are helping people to be playful and spontaneous, however sometimes tricky situations or challenging students pop up that go against our code of conduct and risk upsetting the supportive atmosphere. This additional guide helps us with those[…]
We are very proud of our teachers and work with them to constantly improve diversity, accessibility and support in the improv community. Our teachers not only teach people the basics of improv but also the underlying ethos of the improv community, and therefore have a great effect on the overall improv scene. Code of Conduct[…]