ONline course: three genres

Level: Advanced

In this 6 week course co-taught by Jonah Fazel & Waleed Akhtar , you will play within the Stylised nostalgia of a visually stunning but melancholic Wes Anderson movie, work with the societally relevant and moralistic themes of ancient Greek Tragedy. Plus- It’s glitz, it’s glamour, high drama… It’s BOLLYWOOD!! Get all the joy of playing big outrageous fun characters, and exploring the dynamics of an Asian family with none of the long term scarring or therapy bills.

You will expand on your knowledge of working with genres as experienced in the Principles of Genre Course and feel ready to develop your own show, audition for a genre based team or just simply smash that short-form genre audience suggestion.

With some customised and new exercises original to this course, you’ll examine this term’s genres in an environment with players at a similar experience level and be provided with a reading/watching list so that you arrive at the class ready to dive deep.

What to expect:

Narrative forms: For instance; alternative narration styles, letter writing, structure, explore various storytelling modes and narrative steering techniques.

Explore genre-specific ways of pushing the story forward and editing.

World building & scene painting

Make clear and true to genre characters, and provide them with style-specific wants, choices and obstacles.

Establish ways to succinctly communicate your ‘in world’ choices using characteristics, discuss how to disentangle troublesome stereotypes from useful character types.

Form specific lexicon and accents

Cinematography and theatrical staging

Min. participants 6, max. participants 12.

We offer scholarships for all online courses in order to make sure that the fun and community of improvisation is available to as many people as possible across the globe.Scholarships are available for all online courses. You are encouraged to apply if you would not normally be able to:

Afford these courses

Or be unlikely to attend a course for any other reason

No set criteria

Apply for any course that is live on the Maydays or Nursery website.

If we have to cancel the event due to low numbers, we will do this with 24hours notice (and you will receive a warning 48 hours before the course if this looks likely).

This advanced course runs every Sunday afternoon from 2nd May to 20th June, 4.00 pm-6.00 pm BST

Advanced (3years+) A class for skilful players, especially those who have finished improv training programmes at their school and are looking to widen their horizons. These classes will make the assumption that you are comfortable performing longform improvisation and will push you.

Whatever the level of ability required, all of our classes are safe, supportive environments led by our experienced teachers. Please email us if you are unsure whether a class is suitable for you. If you sign up for a class inappropriate to your level the Nursery/Maydays reserved the right to remove you from the class without refund.