The writer’s job, Nabokov supposedly wrote, is to put a character up a tree and once they are up there, throw rocks. New for 2025, our Introduction to Stories course builds on your longform skills and enables you to link scenes together to tell the story of a specific set of characters. Over twelve weeks, […]
You’ve put in the hours. You’ve been to courses, read books, listened to podcasts, run jams and played played played. And you feel like you want to give something back. So how do you take the next step and start to teach? What do you want to say? How do you structure a class? What […]
For the audience, it’s magic, for the performers, it feels like flying. Tunes and lyrics appear from nowhere, and for a moment, you get to be in the room where it happens. Musical improv is maybe a bit like cheating. Available in Brighton and Online, our musical Improv drop ins are for everyone over the […]
An Improv Celebration At the end of each course, we invite family, friends and improv nerds alike to come and share in what our students have been up to this term. With the guidance of their teacher, two classes perform each night. From short snappy games to full longform shows, this is an opportunity to […]
An Improv Celebration At the end of each course, we invite family, friends and improv nerds alike to come and share in what our students have been up to this term. With the guidance of their teacher, two classes perform each night. From short snappy games to full longform shows, this is an opportunity to […]
Your teacher for Music 1, Heather Urquhart, backstage with Showstoppers: The Improvised Musical Lyrics from nowhere, harmonies like magic and all-singing all-dancing choruses, musical improvisation looks a bit like a miracle. And it doesn’t require special skills, knowledge of musical theory, or a background in musical theatre. You don’t even need to be able to […]
Our fourth level builds on the combination of boldness and collaboration of previous levels towards probably the most famous form in improv: the Harold. Based on ‘group games’ and scenes structured together in patterns of three over roughly half an hour, the Harold allows for stories, ideas and characters to be woven together without obligation, […]
For the audience, it’s magic, for the performers, it feels like flying. Tunes and lyrics appear from nowhere, and for a moment, you get to be in the room where it happens. Musical improv is maybe a bit like cheating. Available in Brighton and Online, our musical Improv drop ins are for everyone over the […]
For the audience, it’s magic, for the performers, it feels like flying. Tunes and lyrics appear from nowhere, and for a moment, you get to be in the room where it happens. Musical improv is maybe a bit like cheating. Available in Brighton and Online, our musical Improv drop ins are for everyone over the […]
