As with most improv festivals that I go to (and to my shame), I had not researched Improfest before I got on the plane. Heather got the invite, Alan is lovely and I had never been to Poland, so let’s do this. A quick check of the workshops I was...
The following was written at the start of the Fringe, so apologies if it seems, well, historical. I decided to publish it anyway. So maybe read it at the start of next year's fringe. Pulling into Waverley station on a balmy summer’s evening I had a realisation. This is the twentieth...
Slapdash International started in a way entirely deserving of the name. One short year after the Nursery ran its first improv festival of new theatre, I met a guy on an improv workshop who was involved with the Old Vic Tunnels back before that space became a skatepark. Two weeks...
In the last of the long-awaited Slapdash Specials, Jules talks to Will and Dave from Big Bang about empowerment, play and the origins of Freeform Improv.Dave Sawyer is an improviser and producer based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has performed at over 40 comedy festivals around the world and is a...
Trent is the man for English Speaking Improv is Finland. He is head of Improv International and founded the Finland International Improvisation Festival.In this podcast he talks to Jules about improvising in other languages, what Finnish humour looks like and why some people want training to hurt. They also re-open...
In the second of this year's Slapdash Specials, we caught up with Alex Berg to talk about negative experience, his military history of Game of Thrones and why he has problems with the word 'art'.Alex spends the bulk of his waking hours writing, acting, and improvising. Currently, he performs with...
Kevin Scott was here for Slapdash and we grabbed him for a chat. Kevin is the founder of three renowned improv ensembles- Chicago's Bang Bang, Burn Manhattan and Centralia. Kevin has been an educator and director for The Second City Training Center and People's Improv Theater. He is also a...
Running festivals is a question of how much planning you can do and what happens when that planning runs up against the things you can't predict. The unknown unknowns. So let us just say that the day before and the first day of the festival were challenging. During that time,...