Improv
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Thomas Crapper and a toilet seat made from the Elgin Marbles
I’ve been up and down to London like a cockney yo-yo the past few days. Thursday: a sketch rehearsal at Theatre Deli in the city, followed by a show at Hoopla Impro in London Bridge with some visiting pals (one a big improv enthusiast) from Istanbul. Friday: an improv session with an experienced improviser, Melissa Read more
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An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotswoman
“Don’t ruminate”, advised my teammate, Nick. Good and kind advice, but he might as well have told me not to breathe – my ADHD is of the “extremely sensitive to what people think of me” kind. So here’s what happened. I did my first improv show of the year with my troupe, Not Suitable For Read more
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The Return To The Land Of Zero Consequences
She is somewhere in the citySomewhere watching televisionWatching people being stupidDoing things she can’t believe in Pulp – Sheffield: Sex City Ten months ago, I applied to be in a Hoopla Impro house team, then forgot all about it. I didn’t even turn up to the audition. Oh well, my life was heading in a Read more
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Gigs, songs, and David Bowie at Leslie Bloom’s 1983 live Christmas TV spectacular
Two more gigs to document, amid a busy week of singing, learning, and performing, in all senses of that most changeling of words. On Wednesday I cycled up a very big hill, through wind and hail, to sing alongside four wonderful humans in a practice for the recording of a song on Jo Burke’s forthcoming Read more
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“I realised, this isn’t me – it’s Leslie”: an interview with Simon Topping
For this week’s “interviewing someone doing something cool in Brighton” [2] section of the Indie Brighton Listings, I interviewed Simon Topping, who runs Extra Topping Comedy. I’ve known Simon a while now, and am a massive fan of both his character comedy and his ability to curate an ever-interesting lineup. I caught up with him in Read more
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Indie Brighton Listings: an interview with Scoops Impro
Hello! I’m trying to interview someone who is performing in Brighton or is putting cool stuff on in Brighton every week. This is part of my exciting new gambit, the Indie Brighton listings newsletter. A newsletter you should absolutely subscribe to if you live in, or regularly visit, the city of Brighton. The only thing Read more
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You are now leaving the American Sector (aka: three nights in non-tourist Berlin)
Berlin was excellent. I continue to adore it, though I have no idea what it makes of me. I was there to catch up with wonderful Halie [1] rather than to do tourist things. We enjoyed many excellent conversations [2], catching up on love and life and academia. It had been a while: we last Read more
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