Booking shows Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla. Hoopla run improv classes, shows and an improv comedy club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. Hi everyone, This blog comes out of a conversation I had with one of the directors of a big improv group in a cafe the other day: Improv[…]
Improv in a nutshell I’ve had a break from all things improv over Christmas and New Year and I’m back into it all next week. I love coming back into improv after a short break as everything seems a bit clearer. I’ve forgotten loads of stuff that probably wasn’t very important anyway, and the things[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla Improv, improv classes, shows and improv theatre. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. Hi everyone, Hope you had a good Christmas. I love this bit of the year, the gap between Christmas and New Year, it’s a blissful oasis of solitary admin for me. I tinker[…]
Talk to each other about each other I just got asked on email about exercises that help coach relationships in improv, so I thought I’d share some of my favourites. Many thanks to Mark Beltzman and Andrew Gentilli for introducing me to lots of these, and to Conor for inspiring the blog. That makes me[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla improv classes, shows and improv theatre. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. I’m on a bit of a break from teaching and performing until September now, and I woke up with these happy memories of the year so far and thought I’d share: DANGER: DRAMA LUVVIE[…]
Not comparing yourself to others Recently I’ve had a few people in workshops who have been looking like they’ve been having a great time all workshop, have been really fun in all the games, and yet afterwards have revealed in the pub or over email that they actually felt like they were doing really ‘badly’[…]
The Spirit of Improv Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla Improv, courses, shows and improv club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. There are structural things to improv, the things that hold a show together and enable people to work together as a team, but underlying that is the spirit of improv.[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla Improv, courses, shows and improv club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. I get asked pretty often about drop-in workshops and other places to practice improv regularly, so I thought I’d put our recommendations together into a blog. If you can’t commit to a longer course,[…]
Different people playing together with different styles and behaviours is what makes impro interesting and surprising to me at the moment. Some people pick up on verbal offers, some emotional offers, some physical offers. Some people play games, some like stories, some like relationships. Some like impro as one big character exercise. Some like quiet,[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla Improv, courses, shows and improv club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. I was chatting to Chris when we were planning the courses recently and the future of long-form in London popped up: In a nutshell, what is long-form improv to you? CHRIS: To me long-form is[…]
12 Extra things that can help you be a successful improv performer in the long-term
Blog Mar 01, 2015
12 Extra things that can help you be a successful improv performer in the long-term 1. Give yourself one thing to play with per show In an improv workshop you have a coach giving you exercises to do and things to focus on. When you start performing it’s good to start giving yourself your own[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, co-founder of Hoopla Improv, improv classes, shows and improv comedy club. Twitter: @HooplaImpro. Facebook: HooplaImpro. Website: www.HooplaImpro.com. Email: [email protected]. I was lucky enough to do the UCB 101 course in London this week. Many thanks to Shem and Carleen and everyone else from C3? who made it happen. It must have[…]