Improv One-Dayer: Long-form

A day devoted to long-form improvisation. It’s a good opportunity to give it a try if you’ve never done it before (or even know what it is) because it is aimed at those with less experience in long-form.

Great for those new (and newish) to long-form and actors who want to explore comedy acting.

What is Long-form Improv?

It’s a category of improvised comedy performance where one or more narratives are maintained, explored or advanced through more than one scene. In long-form improv, you’ll almost definitely find yourself playing a character more than once, for example, and working towards keeping a story going for a few scenes.

What’s Covered in the Session?

We’ll be looking at certain soft skills, like listening, and playing around with different long-form formats as a way of getting to grips with the different way which you can tell a story. More specifically:

• Listening skills
• Scene editing
• Finding and following a narrative

By the end you’ll have a good idea of what to pay attention to when doing long-form, the kind of decisions you’ll be making and how to move from one scene to the next.

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