#FacebookLive – Life Lessons from Improv Acting Classes: The one word that is a #GameChanger
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Thank you just caught the tail end of your chat.
If I lived in London this I’d be right up for Wednesday Improv.
Check out Showstoppers they are phenomenal and make it look so easy!
You’d be amazing in a show can see you being a natural. xx
Pamela Gladstone Thank you, I will have a look. Improv as I’m sure you know is a very different ballgame to my usual stand up and chat, so it has been quite an interesting journey. The having to let go and be totally silly and having no idea what is coming next, and in my case no idea of the rules, boundaries or parameters. All fascinating stuff so I might go back and do another round next year.
After all, I have to prepare for winning my Oscar somehow! 😉
You are very welcome and it’s hard to get around at first once you get the basics you never forget. Sounds like a great course.
Yes you do need to prepare for your Oscar and I can see it’s not that far off! xx 🏆🏅💯📚
Pamela Gladstone I’m not yet sure how to put the course into words aside from crazy, which doesn’t particularly summarise fully what I mean. Probably more along the lines of a journey of exploration into the unknown, learning more about space, movement, motivations, human connection, building unspoken relationships, and going beyond the boundaries of the norm in terms of how we traditionally interact as human beings . . . . . .
Yup sound like Improv, something I struggle to define it. When people don’t know. I say I perform in the style of Who’s Line is it Anyway.
Wait until you start doing Longform another branch of improv and that’s another whole different ball game!
This is the group I was raving on about Showstoppers are amazing and phenomenal. Love to perform with them one day. 🌟
Thank you Pamela Gladstone. Brilliant. And I’ve not heard of longform. I may yet have that to come at some point in the future!
You are most welcome and Longform is really advanced Improv.
The way I can describe it is you get suggestions or a suggestion from the audience and make up a story in 45 minutes to an hour. From nothing. Showstoppers do it and it’s unbelievably slick.
When I saw them in Edinburgh the audience suggestion was Liz on The Lash and it was all about The Queen on her hen night!
They also get suggestions for musicals and intermittently sing an improv song which is outstanding always rhymes and sounds fantastic.
Chicago is where Improv started of Del Close is the founder.
I’ve got a book in my house called Truth In Comedy and was reading and great starting off point for me.
Will send when back at the weekend. I’m an improv geek, love it, love taking about it and helping out. Your class sounds amazing. 💖
Pamela Gladstone Wonderful. I look forward to seeing them in action! I think we did a mini version of that this week where the teacher shouted out either ‘Narrator’ or ‘Act’ for a random story handed to us by the other students in the class.
I had no idea that there was quite so much to the art of just making stuff up!! 😀
Thank you just caught the tail end of your chat.
If I lived in London this I’d be right up for Wednesday Improv.
Check out Showstoppers they are phenomenal and make it look so easy!
You’d be amazing in a show can see you being a natural. xx
Pamela Gladstone Thank you, I will have a look. Improv as I’m sure you know is a very different ballgame to my usual stand up and chat, so it has been quite an interesting journey. The having to let go and be totally silly and having no idea what is coming next, and in my case no idea of the rules, boundaries or parameters. All fascinating stuff so I might go back and do another round next year.
After all, I have to prepare for winning my Oscar somehow! 😉
You are very welcome and it’s hard to get around at first once you get the basics you never forget. Sounds like a great course.
Yes you do need to prepare for your Oscar and I can see it’s not that far off! xx 🏆🏅💯📚
Pamela Gladstone I’m not yet sure how to put the course into words aside from crazy, which doesn’t particularly summarise fully what I mean. Probably more along the lines of a journey of exploration into the unknown, learning more about space, movement, motivations, human connection, building unspoken relationships, and going beyond the boundaries of the norm in terms of how we traditionally interact as human beings . . . . . .
Yup sound like Improv, something I struggle to define it. When people don’t know. I say I perform in the style of Who’s Line is it Anyway.
Wait until you start doing Longform another branch of improv and that’s another whole different ball game!
This is the group I was raving on about Showstoppers are amazing and phenomenal. Love to perform with them one day. 🌟
Thank you Pamela Gladstone. Brilliant. And I’ve not heard of longform. I may yet have that to come at some point in the future!
You are most welcome and Longform is really advanced Improv.
The way I can describe it is you get suggestions or a suggestion from the audience and make up a story in 45 minutes to an hour. From nothing. Showstoppers do it and it’s unbelievably slick.
When I saw them in Edinburgh the audience suggestion was Liz on The Lash and it was all about The Queen on her hen night!
They also get suggestions for musicals and intermittently sing an improv song which is outstanding always rhymes and sounds fantastic.
Chicago is where Improv started of Del Close is the founder.
I’ve got a book in my house called Truth In Comedy and was reading and great starting off point for me.
Will send when back at the weekend. I’m an improv geek, love it, love taking about it and helping out. Your class sounds amazing. 💖
Pamela Gladstone Wonderful. I look forward to seeing them in action! I think we did a mini version of that this week where the teacher shouted out either ‘Narrator’ or ‘Act’ for a random story handed to us by the other students in the class.
I had no idea that there was quite so much to the art of just making stuff up!! 😀