This blog isn’t going to talk about politics or dead celebrities. Not that those things haven’t been sad this year, it’s just that this is an impro blog and I’m an impro savant. Weirdly 2016 has actually been a really good year for improv, which means I have turned into this idiot in a daily[…]
Hoopla Beginners Improv Exercises – Part 2. This is part 2 of our write up of Beginners Improv Exercises from our recent courses. For part 1 please click here. Setting the Environment (things we say at start of class) We have an atmosphere of safety, trust and support. You are not by yourself, we’re playing[…]
Some quick random tips for performing improv I had a great time performing in Story Kitchen’s TheatreSports at our Comedy Club on Saturday, and the show seemed to go down well with the audience. We’ve been rehearsing lots with Story Kitchen and it all seems to be coming together, so I thought I’d select some random[…]
Beginners Improv Exercises – Part 1 This is part 1 of our write up of Beginners Improv Exercises from our recent courses. For part 2 please click here. I’m teaching lots of Beginners Improv Courses with Edgar at the moment and really enjoying them. A couple of the groups asked for a write up of[…]
Things I’m looking forward to about this season I taught the first beginners improv workshop of the season last night and it was so much fun it reminded me why I’m doing this in the first place. I love teaching beginners, it’s so exhilarating watching people do improv for the first time. I love the[…]
Europe we love you. Europe we are you. Message of love for our international impro friends.
Blog Jun 24, 2016
Hello Europe, I run an improv company in London (Hoopla Impro). I don’t really understand politics and I don’t understand fully what’s happening in our country at the moment. Usually I ban politics chats from Hoopla, even during general elections, but today I really want to send a message out to our international improv friends.[…]
Words I usually wait until I have a fully formed idea before I write a blog post, but this usually results in hundreds of drafts and only a couple of blogs actually published. So this one is more a collection of current rambling thoughts. A big thing I’m realising this year is how beautiful words[…]
ADMIN!!!!!!! We had a meeting with a lot of our regularly performing groups. Here’s the minutes of the meeting, I thought they might be helpful for improvisers to understand what happens behind the scenes. Hoopla Improv Comedy Club Meeting Dates: Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd May 2016 Hoopla Impro Comedy Club’s Mission Statement To provide[…]
Variety is the spice of improv I’ve learnt a lot performing in Story Kitchen recently, the new London TheatreSports show directed by Faye Brann. Faye is doing a great job of encouraging us to have variety in our improvisation, and across the whole show and evening. In fact variety is her main note after shows,[…]
Osho Leela I’m writing this on the train back from The Maydays Improv Retreat at Osho Leela in Dorset. I had such an amazingly lovely time that I want to get my thoughts and memories down before they get swallowed up by Clapham Junction. So here’s my random thoughts, memories and feelings from The Maydays[…]
Dealing with difficult audience suggestions Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla. Hoopla run improv and stand up courses, shows and an improv club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. We usually have our end of course shows on a Wednesday but last week it was a Saturday, and it was a lot[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla. Hoopla run improv classes, stand up comedy courses, shows and an improv theatre. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. We’ve been running improv workshops for over 10 years, but mainly for adults. We thought it would be fun to bring improv to a younger audience, as[…]