Wednesday, 14 September 2011
WE ARE THE NEW THEM: David Shepherd: A Lifetime of Improvisational Thea...
WE ARE THE NEW THEM: David Shepherd: A Lifetime of Improvisational Thea...: Hey everyone, have a look at this . It's a film about the life and work of David Shepherd, the co-founder of the first modern professional i...
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Emblem: Spontaneous Thoughts on Perception (a photo)
Two bearded men covering up their facial hair with pretend beards. Now how can we have hands to do the scene with... aha, the other players!
Stroke of luck there then, who would have thought the other improvisers had arms to use?
This was a great scene in which something marvellous happened, so much so that I do forget. Alike most of the week, so much joy and busy frantic flyering that my perception on what actually happened should be the next show. Reality versus memory.
I saw a large portion on 'In the Actor's Studio' yesterday with Liza Minneli and she metioned that she had been taught that all the bad memories can be re-told hilariously. Does this mean that the fringe was awful, as I can retell it as a magical time of splendour?
Saturday, 16 July 2011
London Mewsings: David Shore's making waves!
London Mewsings: David Shore's making waves!
Read this and you would have read all or near enough all of what I have been saying everywhere. The Guradian article about David Shore got a lot of response and this as well as all the others that wrote blogs and notes (or whatever else people call articles online nowadays). Long-form improv in a national newspaper!
Read this and you would have read all or near enough all of what I have been saying everywhere. The Guradian article about David Shore got a lot of response and this as well as all the others that wrote blogs and notes (or whatever else people call articles online nowadays). Long-form improv in a national newspaper!
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Edinburgh Preview (Cardiff): Emblem Spontaneous Thoughts on Perception
It was 6:45pm and we had just got into our warm-up when I, Nathan took on to see who may well be turning up. I looked outside to see a vast crowd of air. However when visiting the crowd downstairs I found our audience. The loveliest fact was that the numbers kept coming in making our cameraman become an usher. Due to this rather premature fetching of our audience we did start five or so minute too early. No one that came in at seven o’clock missed much of the opening exploration of the suggestion.
So I, Nathan opened the show like any other improvisation show. Apart from keeping them waiting in a semi-amused state beforehand with a meet and greet of who we had. Even managed to get a doorstep, sorry I was corrected doorstop. What is one little letter in a word anyway. A ship is still a ship with a little letter changed? We began with enough energy to start a wind turbine and plenty of interaction. Warming their suggestions up with the norm: names, colour, and holiday destination. Wasting no more time we started the show.
Our suggestion was ice cream, and they were amused, shocked that the next hour would be all on ice cream. To be quite honest in a normal long-form show that would be one of the best suggestions ever! Our show isn’t normal, but the stuff we got was pretty cool.
The show comprises of drawing, processworks*, scenes and alternative skills. Using the content of what we have done in the past we surpassed my expectations of the preview production ‘s possibilities by far. The cast worked well and hard and picked up on the offers and utilised alsorts of wonderful ‘adds’ to scenes that enhanced them tremendously. Recently we saw a return of a game we played once in rehearsal months ago and it turned up in the show too. These moments of agreeing and doing are wonderful to watch and definitely beautiful to be in.
Well done cast for such an amazing production to be in and great to be onstage with you all.
We have one more preview booked currently:
The Ballroom in The Bedford, Balham, South London – Saturday 30th July 2011, 1pm.
It’s a part of a mini-festival of Edinburgh Previews.
We are in Edinburgh for PBH’s Free Fringe:
Kiwi Bar @ Walkabout, Omni Centre, Leith Street – Sunday 14th August – Saturday 20th August 2011, 8.45pm (1 hour show)
~ Nathan Keates
* Processworks is based on Improbable's 2007 show where they used it as a freeing method of discussing.
So I, Nathan opened the show like any other improvisation show. Apart from keeping them waiting in a semi-amused state beforehand with a meet and greet of who we had. Even managed to get a doorstep, sorry I was corrected doorstop. What is one little letter in a word anyway. A ship is still a ship with a little letter changed? We began with enough energy to start a wind turbine and plenty of interaction. Warming their suggestions up with the norm: names, colour, and holiday destination. Wasting no more time we started the show.
Our suggestion was ice cream, and they were amused, shocked that the next hour would be all on ice cream. To be quite honest in a normal long-form show that would be one of the best suggestions ever! Our show isn’t normal, but the stuff we got was pretty cool.
The show comprises of drawing, processworks*, scenes and alternative skills. Using the content of what we have done in the past we surpassed my expectations of the preview production ‘s possibilities by far. The cast worked well and hard and picked up on the offers and utilised alsorts of wonderful ‘adds’ to scenes that enhanced them tremendously. Recently we saw a return of a game we played once in rehearsal months ago and it turned up in the show too. These moments of agreeing and doing are wonderful to watch and definitely beautiful to be in.
Well done cast for such an amazing production to be in and great to be onstage with you all.
We have one more preview booked currently:
The Ballroom in The Bedford, Balham, South London – Saturday 30th July 2011, 1pm.
It’s a part of a mini-festival of Edinburgh Previews.
We are in Edinburgh for PBH’s Free Fringe:
Kiwi Bar @ Walkabout, Omni Centre, Leith Street – Sunday 14th August – Saturday 20th August 2011, 8.45pm (1 hour show)
~ Nathan Keates
* Processworks is based on Improbable's 2007 show where they used it as a freeing method of discussing.
Emblem: Spontaneous Thoughts on Perception | Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Emblem: Spontaneous Thoughts on Perception | Edinburgh Festival Fringe
That is Us!
Kiwi Bar @ Walkabout from 14th - 20th August 2011, 8.45pm (1 hour show) in the PBH's Free Fringe.
That is Us!
Kiwi Bar @ Walkabout from 14th - 20th August 2011, 8.45pm (1 hour show) in the PBH's Free Fringe.
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