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Saturday 1st February | 10:00 – 13:00 (CANCELLED)
This workshop has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Anyone who has booked a ticket to this event has been emailed. We apologise for any inconvenience or disappointment caused.
This workshop is all about organic scenes. How do you start scenes when you’ve had no or minimal opening? How do you start scenes when you are on the backline and have no ideas? How do you take scenes from banal beginnings to something special? We’ll explore lots of techniques to make you feel more playful, more erudite, and more interesting on stage. Expect bespoke exercises you’ve never done before. A fresh perspective. And most importantly, a really fun time.
More about the class from the instructors:
We – Conor Jatter and Max Dickins (hi!) – draw inspiration from our diverse performance experiences. Expect tools from the worlds of not only improv and sketch, but clown, music, storytelling, and even experimental psychology to help you be the most interesting and free version of yourself on stage. We believe people are vessels filled with all sorts of amazing, fascinating things. We’ll help you find that voice and pour it into your scenes. We believe that your and your scene partner’s presence in a scene is enough for it to be compelling. We’ll help you see more of what is already there.
And, again, can’t emphasise this enough: it will be FUN.
About the Instructors:
Created by Conor Jatter (The RH Experience) and Max Dickins (The Committee), Giant Steps is an improvised comedy show with a brilliant live band. Improvisation meets improvisation as hilarious improv comedians and virtuoso jazz musicians inspire each other in real time into leaps of comedy and creativity.
Conor Jatter is a member of the RH Experience and one of the best regarded improvisers in the UK. The RH Experience have been performing live shows & producing sketches for 15 years and have featured on BBC One, BBC Radio 4 & E4. Their YouTube videos have racked up over one million views.
Max Dickins is a writer and performer, for the stage, page, and screen. His last book, Billy No Mates, has been translated into multiple languages and is currently being adapted for television. As an improviser, Dickins has appeared numerous times on BBC One’s Michael McIntyre’s Big Show. www.maxdickins.com