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Supporting a bad scene, keeping your teammates' and the audience's trust
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Succeeding in improv auditions
Welcome to the terrifying world of competitive improv auditions: an art-form you were assured was mainly about collaboration. 11 tips to get out of your…
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Warming-up with purpose
Take these 8 routes to harmonious pre-show nirvana.
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10 things I learned about improv comedy from losing A LOT
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The cricket forward-defensive and improvising story
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You don't look like your Tinder profile
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Good teaching scenes
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Warming-up with purpose
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Succeeding in improv auditions
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Good teaching scenes
Injecting any fun and originality into a teacher-student improv scene isn't easy, but here’s some options to steer through this old classic
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The cricket forward-defensive and improvising story
With The Ashes series between England and Australia starting this week, what can we learn from cricket's most elemental shot
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The joy of giving the suggestion and why you shouldn't steal it
Giving the audience suggestion and seeing an entire show conjured from it is a magical experience for a non-improviser. Performers, let the magic…
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9 ways to back yourself on the backline
You're not in the scene, but you are in the show. How improvisers can best support their teammates from the side of the stage.
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What The Shard knows about the third beat of your Harold
The Harold is a hard enough improv format without putting too much pressure on our third beats. The Shard knows better...
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Why the Beatles could have been the best improv team of all-time
Between relentless practice, re-invention and coming up through the dingiest of makeshift venues, the Fab Four might point the way to improv comedy…
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Take a seat - the gift and curse of an improv chair
A disgruntled improv chair writes...
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