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- 5 Ways To Bring Improv Magic Into Everyday Life
- Getting back into improv after a break
- Casting Call
- Hoopla changes after 19th July
- Point to things in the room
- Hoopla crowdfunder update for improv outreach
- Moving into real-life improv from online
- Running Tips For People Who Don’t Usually Run
- What I have learnt from an unexpected year of teaching improv online!
- Tier 3 & 4 Update
- Hoopla’s impro highlights of the year 2020!
- Zoom games you can play with the family this Christmas
- Lockdown 2 Update
- Front of House Safety Guide
- Performers Safety Guide
- Stand in the middle of a field and shout fuuuuuuccccc***
- Courses and shows can still go ahead following recent Government announcement.
- Teachers Safety Guide
- Improv at 1m+ is still fun!
- Covid-19 Safety and Flexibility
- Safety in shows
- Safety in classes
- Risk Assessment
- Hoopla Updates to our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Improviser Support
- 5 Tips for Performing Improv Online
- Hoopla Impro Podcast! #001 – Monica Gaga
- Keith Johnstone’s Impro Book, Day 2
- Keith Johnstone’s Impro Book, day 1
- A quick guide to Game of the Scene
- Lockdown FAQ
- Hoopla Coronavirus Policy
- The Future of Long-form
- What is Long-form Improv?
- Different Areas of the UK
- Clowning around can help you be a better improviser!
- 8 things we love about the UK and Ireland Improv Scene!
- audition tips
- Improv for fun is everything to me
- Hoopla’s UK & Ireland Improv Festival 2019!
- It takes a village to raise an improv club
- What to expect from the Long-form Course with Liam Brennan
- Phil Lunn’s top Musical Improv warm up exercises
- Character Course with Susan Harrison – What to expect and her favourite exercises
- Top 5 improv games for first time performers
- Hoopla teacher Rhiannon Vivian’s Top Five Short Form Games for Beginners
- What warm-up games can improvisers do in a busy pub before their show?
- Top Five Beginners exercises from Hoopla teacher James Witt
- Hoopla teacher Rory Vieyra shares his favourite warmup games.
- Hoopla teacher Rhiannon Vivian’s Top 5 Tips for Beginners & warm up games.
- Hoopla Teacher Susan Harrison shares her improv story
- Meet Hoopla Teacher Katy Schutte
- How Hoopla Teacher Liam Brennan got into the world of Improv
- Hoopla teacher Jinni Lyons talks about how to create a Solo Improv Show.
- Favourite Improv exercises from Hoopla teacher James Witt
- Meet Hoopla Teacher Andrew Gentilli
- Interview with Hoopla teacher Chris Mead
- I find this game hard!
- A new character exercise to help people go beyond default characters
- Hoopla Big Christmas Thanks!
- Many thanks from us to everyone involved in the Hoopla Improv Marathon!
- How to practice improv by yourself
- Anxiety about not being quick or funny enough when improvising.
- Why is the Hoopla Improv Marathon the same week as Slapdash Improv Festival?
- Some quick helpful tips on hosting an improv night.
- Hoopla Teachers at The Edinburgh Fringe. Edinburgh Fringe Recommendations 2017
- Hoopla’s quick guide to improv for beginners
- How to give feedback when teaching improv
- I want to let go
- Impro highlights of 2016 and plans for 2017
- Hoopla Beginners Improv Exercises – Part 2
- Some quick random tips for performing improv
- Beginners Improv Exercises – Part 1
- Things I’m looking forward to about this season
- Europe we love you. Europe we are you. Message of love for our international impro friends.
- Words
- Hoopla Improv Comedy Club Meeting Minutes
- Variety is the spice of improv
- Osho Leela Maydays Improv Residential Spring 2016
- Dealing with difficult audience suggestions
- Free improv workshops for teachers and youth workers
- From the back of the room, the booker’s point of view.
- Improv in a nutshell
- Improv things I’m looking forward to next year
- Talk to each other about each other
- Summer fun improv memories.
- Not comparing yourself to others
- The Spirit of Improv
- List of drop in workshops and other places to practice improv regularly.
- The differences in your impro group make it interesting
- Chat with Chris Mead about long-form.
- 12 Extra things that can help you be a successful improv performer in the long-term
- Things I learnt from the UCB 101 week
- Interview with Victoria Howden about Playback Theatre
- Interview with Andy Yeoh from The Bristol Improv Theatre.
- Improv friendly rehearsal spaces in London that don’t cost too much
- I’m OK You’re OK
- Scales of Agreement
- Hoopla’s Improv Memories of 2014
- Don’t Quit. Advice from the late great Joan Rivers in the sitcom Louie.
- Improv Videos
- Getting Improvisers into TV & Film
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014 Show Recommendations
- 23rd December 2013: Hoopla’s Improv Highlights of the Year
- Improv Tips from IO Week.
- How to get into performing improv and where to perform in London.
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013 Show Recommendations
- New Character Exercise: Clichéd Characters Instant Depth
- Reasons why I loved last night’s Impro Jam so much
- Impro is Real Life Backwards
- Improv Tips
- CHAPTER SIX: FUTURE. Historical influences on improv. Why did impro start when it did and why did it grow?
- CHAPTER 5: COLLECTIVE JOY. Historical influences on improv. Why did impro start when it did and why did it grow?
- CHAPTER 4: EDUCATION. Historical influences on improv. Why did impro start when it did and why did it grow?
- CHAPTER 3: AUDIENCE. Historical influences on improv. Why did impro start when it did and why did it grow?
- CHAPTER 2: CENSORSHIP. Historical influences on improv. Why did impro start when it did and why did it grow?
- CHAPTER 1: TV. Historical influences on improv. Why did impro start when it did and why did it grow?
- Performing tips from some of the finest improvisers around.
- How to create a supportive atmosphere for impro
- Awareness
- Being Positive Exercises
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012 Show Recommendations
- Maps of the stage, what different areas of the stage mean and how to use them.
- Clown Exercises
- Beyond impro: list of courses in acting, stand up, puppetry etc
- Clown and Improv = Best Friends!
- Reactions bring improv to life
- The Secret Of Improv: Be in a Good Mood
- Improvising believable relationships
- Environment and Object Work Notes
- Meisner For Improvisers
- Spontaneity including the Jobsworth with the Clipboard Metaphor!
- Very Random Genre Notes
- Exercises on focus and scenes with lots of people in
- New Short Form Games
- New Ways to Play Yes Let’s
- Scenes Born Out Of Relationships and Emotions
- Don’t just justify mistakes, Yes And the hell out of them!
- Pulling Back the Curtain of Discovery Exercise
- Mask Workshop Notes
- New short-form games from last Saturday’s workshop
- Character Exercises to Play With
- Long Form / Tall Tales Workshop Notes
- Improv books we can recommend
- Yes And, new ways to play the exercise
- Happy and Excited.
- Random things learnt from new shows in development
- You know you’re an improviser when…
- What makes you a fun person to improvise with?
- Merry Hoopla Everyone! Impro highlights of the year.
- Objectives
- Full Circle
- Perform more
- Simplicity of what makes a good performer
- Venues to perform improv in and shows that need improvisers in.
- New exercise on being altered by small offers
- How to use improv to write sketch comedy
- Reality Workshop Notes
- Solo Improvisation Workshop Notes
- List of most comedy fringe festivals ordered by start date
- A brief history of rough theatre for improvisers
- Presence Workshop Notes
- Impro or Improv? What’s in a v?
- Circle of Expectation Workshop Notes
- Improv in one class
- Secret objectives make realistic scenes
- The effect of approval and disapproval on improvisation.
- New character exercise
- How to take a show to Edinburgh – The Basics
- Listening Workshop Notes
- Game of the Scene Workshop Notes
- Edinburgh Blog 11: Bye Bye Edinburgh
- Edinburgh Blog 10: Why are most comedy groups white, middle class twenty/early thirty-somethings?
- Edinburgh Blog 9: Edinburgh Advice 308: You will get ill anyway, so you might as well drink
- Edinburgh Blog 8: Music Box have become superstitious
- Edinburgh Blog 7: Riots and Reviews
- Edinburgh Blog 6: The Music Box Sandwich Board, Best Thing I’ve Ever Done
- Edinburgh Blog 5: Dr. Music Box’s Prevention of the Edinburgh Lurgy
- Edinburgh Blog 4: Music Box First Show
- Edinburgh Blog 3: Edinburgh To-Do No.456: Be in a good mood.
- Edinburgh Blog 2: Ahhhhh! Edinburgh!
- Edinburgh Blog 1: Agent Music Box Reporting For Duty
- More follow up about future of improv in London.
- What’s happening Tuesdays at The Miller and why
- Two New Character Exercises
- Edinburgh Fringe Show Recommendations
- There’s no method to impro
- Paul, Cariad, David, Rob, Phil, Glue
- Wildheart Gathering
- Arrogance
- Most comedy performers are scared of making people laugh.
- Earwig
- What’s happenin’ at The Miller
- Shared Style and Group Mind
- Why I love London
- Narrative Workshop Notes
- Genre Workshop Notes
- Music Box and The Miller more fun than the whole of Australia
- Steve’s Top Tips to Budding Performers
- The Maydays
- Status, missing thing in impro that makes it real
- Making a living from impro
- Workshops to Shows
- Things they don’t put in business books
- Acting’s First Purpose?
- Carny Life
- Variety, Casting, Negativity
- Stand Up For The First Time
- Buzz
- Three Shows in Three Days
- Flyering in Earl’s Court
- Fingers on Buzzards
- Lots of stuff happening at once
- First Thursday in new venue
- Back in London
- Edinburgh TV Festival
- Edinburgh Festival 2
- Edinburgh Festival 1
- Hoopla and The Maydays