COVID-19 – Improv classes in the face of a global pandemic
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
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,...
Don’t ask questions, myths and legends
That old chestnut of questions in theatrical improvisation scenes has popped up a number of times over the years, and seems to be doing the rounds of our local community yet again. Like many theatrical improvisation techniques, it’s either taught wrong in early levels...