08 Jan Introducing Nursery Digital Originals 2021 (And Their Directors!)
In conversation with improvisers M.J. Kang, Pratham Sarwate and Varoon P. Anand on directing the 2021 season of Nursery (digital) Originals....
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19 Feb Playing outside the box for Nursery Original, ‘Boxed In’
What did you want to be when you grew up? Astronaut? Firefighter? Pop star? Prime Minister?I wanted to not grow up.As I approached my 18th birthday, the horrifying realisation that ‘responsibility’ and ‘being sensible’ would soon be on the agenda scared the living daylights out of me. The idea of...
21 Jan The Unbridled Experience
My lips twitched as I read the invitation. “The Nursery’s sternest ringmistress Heather Urquhart requests the pleasure of having you as a member of her company for a celebration of our nation’s finest scribe, Ms Jilly Cooper.” Surely that couldn’t be my name written in dark red ink, at the...
30 Jul What Severus Snape taught me about improvised narrative
So Magicked, our homage to and deconstruction of the world of Harry Potter closed out the season a couple of Saturdays back. It involved a dementor dreaming of owning a Volvo and Dumbledore getting a job as a tour guide, while Ron spent twenty years inside a board game and...
13 Feb A Statement of Intent
Let me start with a confession: I don’t like Harry Potter. I don’t dislike it either, it just never happened to me. I was fifteen when the first book came out and awkwardly pretentious enough to ignore it. Even as the juggernaut gathered momentum, I was more interested in Beckett,...
18 Jul Autumn Nursery Originals Announcements: Three very different shows
We know, we know, the summer isn't even over yet, and many improv shows are looking ahead to Edinburgh, but here at the Nursery we are already planning the autumn.For those of you newer to the Nursery, Nursery Originals is an idea which we have lovingly stolen from the Hideout...
06 Nov Between the Scripted and the Improvised
I think the space between pure unstructured improv and scripted plays is worth more exploration. I’m going to talk about the genesis of Open Roads in my experiences with roleplaying and the larger aims of this project.The format of Open Roads is an adaption of the roleplaying game Ribbon Drive...
03 Nov Uncertain Futures
I haven’t directed a show from the outside for many years, so I was excited and nervous about joining Micheal Such in creating Open Roads.I was intrigued by the idea, take a role-playing game and see if it could be adapted to the stage. I loved the concept of the...
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