Exploring the Improvised Play

Tue Jan 28 2025 at 07:00 pm UTC+00:00

Malt Cross | Nottingham

Ben Macpherson
Publisher/HostBen Macpherson
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Welcome to the world of the improvised play. This course explores how to create self contained improvised narrative and how to bring that to life on stage. You will explore how to create rich and real worlds, populate them with believable characters and weave their stories out of thin air. This six week course will build your improv toolbox then apply it to a format devised by the course leader, Ben Macpherson. Areas of focus include characters, narrative techniques and stagecraft as well as creating a shorthand for collaborating as a group. This course looks to explore a wide variety of dramatic techniques and is not geared solely to creating comedy.
This course is aimed at improvisers with existing experience. Ideally you will be comfortable with long form improv ideas and have some experience performing to audiences. If you are unsure please contact the organiser.
The course runs weekly on Tuesday Nights from 28th January - 11th March, with a week off on the 18th of Feb for Half Term.
This course is led by Ben Macpherson. Ben has been improvising since 2011 and facilitating almost as long. He has performed in hundereds of improv shows including The Vox Pops which he founded, and It's a Trap! The Improvised Star Wars Show which he was also producer for. He has appeared at festivals across the UK including the Edinburgh Fringe and Robin Hood International Improv Festival. He has trained with teachers from across the world including Chicago, New York and Los Angeles as well as the UK and Europe.

This course operates looks to operate a safe space and will include discussions of boundaries in each session. Whilst dramatic performance can lead to uncomfortable areas, student and teacher safety is paramount and everyone has the right to protect themselves on stage. Key to this is treating all involved with respect and if there are issues with a persons behaviour, including but not limited to Racism, Sexism, Queerphobic actions and physical or emotional harassment, that individual maybe excluded from the group and asked not to return. If this happens that individual will not be refunded.
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Malt Cross, 18 St James's Street, Nottingham, NG1 6, United Kingdom,Nottingham, United Kingdom

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