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The Stuff of Improv: Improv that Matters
Good Acting in Improvised Comedy
Acting skills are essential for improv. Good acting reveals our humanity, vulnerability and courage. Its honest and universal. And connecting to that essential truth generates the funniest moments.
By the end of this intense and immersive 2 day workshop you will have a better understanding of how to take off the training wheels of improvised comedy rules and allow a deeper, truer and funnier You to shine on stage.
Using principles based on Sanford Meisner's work with actors and inspired by the iO approach to improv, Charm&Strange invites you on a journey to the inner realm of comedy.
The freedom and true fun of their approach is one of the most rewarding things I have ever done for myself on stage or off." Audrey, student and team member
Charm&Strange helps you connect to you. Using your authentic feeling in the moment to inspire the imaginary circumstances you are playing in is the secret sauce for improvised comedy. Be a better, more effective listener, be more open and alive on stage, find ever more joy, be ever more present with yourself and your team.
Participants will get lots of stage time and practice as well as plenty of feedback.
Experienced performers will get to come back to the joy that inspired them as artists in the first place and people with less experience will find their improv skills are deeper and better than they ever imagined.
Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th June, 10am-5pm
The Lantern Intercultural Centre
15-17 Synge Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
Price: €200
Early bird price (book before end of May): €180
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Your coaches:
Lizzy trained in acting at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and studied improv and sketch writing at The Second City, Chicago. With well over a decade's improv experience, she has performed at IMPRO Amsterdam, SWIMP: the Sweden International Improv Festival, ImproFestUK, the Shoreditch Improv Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, and most recently at the Adelaide Fringe 2018 with Awkwardly Quiet. Besides performing regularly with her other teams Somewhat Theatre and Big Now, Lizzy coaches organic improv team Charm&Strange with Sophie Pumphrey, and has facilitated workshops at SWIMP, in Dublin and around the UK.
Sophie directed and improvised her first play in primary school and in classically modest style, cast herself as the lead: a holy Roman emperor. The last twelve years of improvising comedy experience have seen her causing distress on stages across Britain, Sweden and Korea. She has studied acting at the Actors Temple, clown at LAMDA, and improv with Dave Razowsky among many others. She won the coveted Cavendish Cup in 2016 for improvising a stand up set as well as achieving in 1986 a 10m swimming badge. Besides performing regularly with her other teams Big Now, SWT and T-Minus, Sophie coaches organic improv team Charm&Strange with Lizzy Mace, and has facilitated workshops in Rimini, Dublin and around the UK.
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LocationThe Lantern Intercultural Centre (View)
15-17 Synge Street
Dublin 8
Ireland
Categories
| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Contact
| Owner: Lizzy Mace |
| On BPT Since: Jun 12, 2017 |
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