In the light of the current health scenario, most of our shows, jams and classes are suspended until at least the end of March.
However we are now running an online drop in every day of the week!
If you’d like fully online, multiple week courses, fill out this form and let us know!
If you would like more details on our policy towards coronavirus read our full policy here.
Nursery improv courses use acting and comedy skills to help you feel more confident, calm and mindful in social situations, as well as helping you build your creativity in a supportive and low risk environment. Our level one classes are suitable for complete beginners and those with no performance experience and will introduce you to the core skills of improv, and our five level syllabus will guide you from there there right up to challenging forms and performance skills.
The Nursery’s applied improvisation classes take the skills we have learnt over ten years of theatrical production and applies them to contexts outside of the rehearsal room. Our standard classes use experiential learning to improve your company’s team dynamics, soft skills, ideation skills and creativity, but we can also design bespoke sessions, or even provide entertainment for your conference, meeting or party.
In addition to our core syllabus, the Nursery offers a variety of specialised and elective classes, including visiting international teachers and performers teaching specialised forms and skills, Women’s Workshops and a weekly LGBTG+ group. These workshops cater for a variety of skill levels and experiences and focus on specific areas.
From the UK’s best improv to stars of the small and the large screen, open audience jams to improvised plays, the Nursery has over ten years of experience presenting improv shows in London. Having been awarded runners up for Time Out culture spot in the city, the Nursery will be returning in 2020 with a bold and varied programme of improvised shows.
By any estimation, this is the first major wave of online improv. It has happened before of course, but now the entire community is buying ring lights and clipmics, rigging up greenscreens and sharing Zoom pro accounts. I (like a lot of improvisers) have done a few online shows and...
‘Can it work?’ said every improviser on the internet at the same time. ‘Improvisation online?’ ‘If the point is to connect with people, doesn’t a screen defeat the point?’ But then there was no choice, and all at once, like mushrooms after a storm, pockets of online improvisation popped up...
The Nursery and the Maydays are now offering online drop ins! Here are some tips to make sure you get the best experience!
In these strange times, and with the current government advice against unnecessary social contact, the Nursery and the Maydays will be working together to experiment with online drop ins. We recognise that the global situation is grave and unprecedented and we believe the community and interaction that improv provides can...
Those who know me well know I love Shakespeare – regarded to be among the best and most prolific storytellers in history. My dissertation and directing piece from my degree were Shakespeare inspired, I’ve been in a number of Shakespeare tours, I have a webseries devoted to his sonnets and...
A guest blog from Imogen Palmer, creator of IMOGENÉ . When I started out doing stand-up as a bright-eyed 19 year old on the open mic circuit of Bristol, I observed a lot of aggressive audience interaction techniques. New comics would try to ‘riff’ on people who clearly didn’t really...
