Improv Workshop with invited teacher Steve Roe

Interested in trying out improv but don't want to commit to a full course? This half-day workshop could be for you.

TBC Improv are pleased to welcome Steve Roe from Hoopla Impro to Edinburgh, who will be teaching general improv skills required for performance in an intensive improv learning day.

More About the Workshop from Steve Roe

Hoopla offer one of the most fun, friendly, sociable and stress-free environments to learn improvisation in the UK.

Complete beginners are welcome. You don't need any drama, acting, comedy or impro experience whatsoever. You don't have to be clever, fast or funny either!

Hoopla create a friendly, fun and supportive atmosphere in workshops where people are free to play and be themselves.

Each session consists of some fun and friendly warm ups, then some exercises on some of the core skills of improvisation, followed by having some fun with improvising games & scenes.

We'll be covering loads of improv topics as part of the workshop including some of the following:

• Having fun improvising
• Confidence on stage
• Creative Teamwork
• Spontaneity
• Active Listening and Awareness
• Yes And
• Improvising Characters
• Improvising Stories
• Improvising Scenes
• Improvising Games
• Accepting and Building on Offers
• Expanding and Deepening Offers

• Building Platforms
• Who What Where
• Creating a Physical Environment
• Presence
• Being in the moment
• Being Obvious
• Emotional Reactions, Being Altered
• Physical improvisation
• Trust
• Status
• Building Relationships
• Scene Work
• Being Playful

And most of all having tonnes of fun improvising games, scenes and sketches as a group, building a friendly and supportive team over the course.