Improv
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Guesting with The Krayzies at Hoopla Improv Mixer Night
I write from a smoky Thameslink train stuck at East Croydon. We are non-moving for one of two reasons: either the ongoing signal failures, or the guy in the back carriage with the massive reefer has set off the internal fire alarms. Or possibly both? [1] I just had a really fun evening at Hoopla… Read more
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Relationships Relationships Relationships (or: people fear he’s writing about improv again)
Saturday was the last of my performances as part of Hoopla’s rolling House Team programme, in which they stick together a bunch of promising improvisers (and, on this occasion, me), try out some new formats, and see what comes of it all. I wasn’t able to make all the sessions, which consisted a couple of… 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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AndAlso Level Four Improv Showcase, The Lantern Theatre, Brighton
Over the last few months I’ve been doing an improv course with AndAlso (artists formerly known as The Maydays), learning “The Harold”. The Harold format is named after the 1960s Labour Prime Minster Harold Wilson, due to the way scenes and games emerge in the “white heat” of a three beat structure. A lot of… Read more
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Review: Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show, Comedy Store
Note – a shorter version of this review is in today’s Morning Star newspaper. The Comedy Store is showing its age. The logo is very eighties, as are much of its regular clientele. Most are here to see Paul Merton, him off the telly, who has been doing improv for longer than your correspondent can… Read more
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AndAlso Easter Showcase (aka James’ Armando debut)
Improv! I have been doing a 12 week “level 3” improv course with AndAlso, the corporate offshoot of The Maydays and premiere Brighton-based improv nexus, and Wednesday was our debut performance. I’ve only done improv live on stage once before: as a made-up film director at a live recording of the Improvised Movie Director Podcast.… Read more
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I joined an improv class and here’s what I think about that
January is a good time to do courses. Everyone is full of hope and excitement at doing something new, which is important in a month as cruel as this. [1] I joined a Level 3 course run by the local improv Kingpins The Maydays. I did this despite having not done their 1 and 2… Read more
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Brighton Fringe: Luke Rollason: Bowerbird and Gämez presents: TV Pilots Live!
In a city as iconoclastic as Brighton, the Jubilee was always going to be weird. Friday was a combination of marauding day trippers and unbothered locals, with the Union Jack per square mile quotient pleasingly low. Luke Rollason I first saw a few years ago at The Vault Festival, dressed as a sperm. His current… Read more
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Review: Hotel Michelle at Museum of Comedy, Holborn
Banana. Spatula. Improv exists via audience suggestions, and sometimes audiences aren’t very imaginative. Still, it was a surprise to see a Tuesday night audience at the Museum of Comedy in Holborn transmogrify into an Edinburgh Fringe midnight audience. In came the predictable shouts for strippers, nuns, and sex dungeons. But like all good improvisation groups,… Read more
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