The Living Newspaper

Jun 5, 2024 | Blog

The Living Newspaper was an early 19th century travelling theatre programme for the dissemination of news before the invention of television. The first version of this to be used in an “improv” show was by Jacob Moreno, a Romanian doctor who later became the creator...

Should we cancel classes when there’s a big unrelated event on?

Aug 18, 2023 | Blog, News

This month we’ve had to decide whether to cancel/delay lessons due to scheduling of the unrelated 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup of football (AKA soccer), which was hosted by Australia and New Zealand with lots of games in our home town of Sydney. One argument is, well...

Midjourney does Improv – Classic scene setups

Jul 18, 2023 | Blog, ChatGPT

Continuing our journey with improv related prompts for large language models, we though it might be a good idea to see if Midjourney (read: the internet collective conscious) understands the subtleties of improv. We chose four classisc scene setups and let Midjourney...

ChatGPT does Improv – The Love Doctors

Dec 21, 2022 | Blog, ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by the company OpenAI. Built on the text of the web and large language models, ChatGPT can hold knowledgable conversions based on the information it has been provided. Whether that knowledge is accurate is debatable. This blog post...

COVID-19 – Improv classes in the face of a global pandemic

Dec 21, 2020 | Blog

At the start of 2020, we were set for a bumper year of improv. And then that thing with the pandemic happened. Looking back, we were luckier than most. When the government introduced hand sanitising and 1.5m social distancing on 15 March, we immediately adapted our...

Mindfulness and Improvisation

Jul 3, 2019 | Blog

We keep an eye out for improvisation research, and once in a while the mainstream media does too. The day after our last newsletter went out in June, the ABC — the Australian one, not the U.S. one — published an interesting article on the history of sports psychology,...