Name: ISL presents: THE LIVING ROOM
Start: 2025-11-05T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-05T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Theatre Deli

A 6-week course for English as a Second, Additional and/or Foreign Language improvisers
on “The Living Room” long-form format
About this Event

Where: Studio 4, , 107 Leadenhall Street, London, England, EC3A 4AF
When: Every Wednesday from 5th November 2025, 7pm-9:30pm,plus an end of course performance TBD!
Exact dates: Wed 5th November, Wed 12th November, Wed 19th November, Wed 26th November, Wed 3rd December, Wed 10th December

Teacher: Marie de Waal (more about Marie below*)

BEFORE YOU SIGN UP, READ THE FOLLOWING INFO:

This is a course for intermediate-advanced improvisers. Here's a list of improv skills you'll need to have acquired in order to have fun in this course:

- all the basics covered: listening, accepting, building on offers, mistakes are gifts, some character work.

- scenework: discovering, establishing and developing location and relationship.

- having some experience with performing long-form improvisation and using edits.

If you are unsure whether this is the right workshop for you or not, contact us at [email protected] .

We expect participant to commit to arrive on time and attend most sessions. In order to do the final performance, you must attend at least 5 of the 6 sessions.

The cost of the workshop will cover the cost of the room hire. Any surplus will be used to finance future ISL activities.
We are aiming to run this course with a minimum of 6 participants. If by Friday 24th of October we haven't reached 6 tickets sold, we will cancel the workshop and refund all tickets.

* ABOUT MARIE DE WAAL: Marie (she/her) is an improviser with more than a decade of experience, most of it in English as her second language. She has trained with teachers from all over the world and is most drawn to the Keith Johnstone style of impro. She is passionate about teaching and facilitating, especially to English second-language speakers. Most of her classes come with an in-built history or background lesson (she loves a good impro book), but don't worry there will be enough time to play. Marie has experience playing, developing shows and facilitating in several different countries. She co-runs ISL and has been teaching for this project since 2020.