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...
Everyone knows they are two of the best in the world, right? The improvisers' improviser and the actor who can really improvise. They don't take a suggestion, they swap characters, they talk about soup for an hour. They improvise a play and it's a miracle. TJ and Dave is one...
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,...
I got back from Edinburgh about a week ago. And a lot of people have asked me the same thing: 'How was it?'. A perfectly reasonable question on the face of it, but every time I hear it, it seems to make as much sense as 'How much time is...
Last Thursday I went to something called a D&D. No, not the table top role playing game, but Devoted and Disgruntled, an event run by Improbable Theatre Company where theatre people from different disciplines can come together to discuss what they do, why and how. And this was an improvisation...