Saturday 26th April – Sunday 27th April (CANCELLED)
Please note: This course has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any disappointment caused. If you have previously booked a ticket, you will have received an email from The Bristol Improv Theatre.
Culture Flow is a buzzing new format and approach to improv designed for people of diverse backgrounds such as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and POC performers.
Combining elements of improv, screen writing and many other new techniques to empower performers to bring their identities and experiences to the stage in a fun and organic way while supporting other performers to do the same.
Course topics:
- Character and Performing to the reality of your scene.
- Bringing your identity to the stage and making it a strength.
- Building a scene, giving it direction and making it matter.
- The power of perspective!
- Supporting performers as they introduce their world to yours.
- How to give performers opportunities to be themselves.
- Using conflict positively and supporting new points of view.
- Game of the Scene, Set Up & Misdirect and other ways to be funny quickly.
- Finding the truth of a scene and why it’s important.
- How to make scenes about any element of your identity/experiences organically that are as funny as you want them to be and easy to play.
- How to celebrate yours and others’ identities and experiences through improv.
About the Instructor:
Tai Campbell is an award winning director, writer, actor and improviser with credits on BBC One, BBC Three, Vice, SKY and over 25 million views online.
He is a founding member of the UK’s first all Black improv comedy team ‘Do The Right Scene’, co-runs the UK’s longest running POC improv comedy show ‘Special Delivery’ at Hoopla Impro and is the creator of ‘Crash Landing’ the POC improv workshop & show experience – first of its kind!
His passion is to support and empower the POC community and help to provide spaces where performers can be 100% themselves.
He also loves computer games and snowboarding.