Name: Fuel the Furnace Improv Workshop - Finding Deeper Layers of Meaning
Start: 2025-05-17T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Elisabethplatz, München, Deutschland

Fuel the Furnace Improv Workshop - Finding Deeper Layers of Meaning

Improvisation is a tool to create fantastic, hilarious, or thought-provoking scenes on stage. When you start to chain those scenes together, you and your scene partners can discover deeper layers of meaning, narrative or consequence, far beyond any expectations you might have had when you entered the scene. As you begin to explore narrative long-form, it's easy to get stuck in your head, worrying about what 'should' happen next, but the spark required to tell an improvised story is always kindled between you and your scene partner. Transforming that spark into a fire of narrative that can burn for half an hour, or an hour, or even longer, needs the right kind of fuel. This workshop will explore what is needed to kindle that fire, from awareness of story structure to the creation of well-rounded characters and textured environments. The workshop relies on all participants having some existing experience with improvisation, and would not suit someone with no prior improv experience.
The workshop will be taught in English by Paul Ayris from Bake This Improv. Paul has been improvising in Munich since 2014, starting out at a Bake This open jam, and subsequently starting an improv community space in the city. Paul joined Bake This in 2016, and since then, has been a regular cast member in their signature long-form musical formats. In 2017, Paul co-founded Impro 9 From Outer Space, a long-form performance group with a science-fiction theme, and between 2016-2024, coordinated the Storytellers Night house improv team. When not engaged in any of the above, Paul is a seasoned dungeon master, working with improvisers and actors in rules-light systems with a focus on collaborative storytelling.
Note: The early-bird ticket is bookable until April 21, 2025. After this time, you can book a regular or student ticket. The exact location at Elisabethplatz will be sent to you once you purchase a ticket.