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Your Theatrical Improv Batbelt - Tom Mathias - Pretend Academy
As a performing improviser, there are so many choices to make - staging your show is one of them. Make it with intention!
Stagecraft for improvisors can be rushed, picked up implicitly, or sadly, neglected. Learning how a play is prepared, rehearsed and staged and what choices there are to make gives improvers powerful insights and a fresh toolkit to apply. Scripted theatre can be "full body physiotherapy" for improvisors, time to book in and stretch yourself.
Topics covered:
Warm-up - a simple top-to-toe, outside in warm-up to help get you ready and open for a performance
Blocking - more than just 45+45, principles and exercises to ensure you're seen/heard and how to emphasise the choices and actions of your group
Staging - how to perform with, not against unusual playing spaces and ways to make plain spaces interesting.
About Tom
Tom has created theatre with South London Theatre for over 10 years; performing, designing, producing and directing across classic and contemporary pieces. Tom is a founder member of Linc Theatre having written and produced and performed Replay: The Stage Play.
Tom has been improvising for over 7 years; learning in multiple schools, under international teachers and at festivals. Tom has taught improv for theatrical performers and corporate speaking, produced shows and performs with La Wronge. Tom was part of the debut team that performed Somewhere on the Other Side of this Wide Night with The Pretend Company at Improfestival Karlsruhe in 2024.
Stagecraft for improvisors can be rushed, picked up implicitly, or sadly, neglected. Learning how a play is prepared, rehearsed and staged and what choices there are to make gives improvers powerful insights and a fresh toolkit to apply. Scripted theatre can be "full body physiotherapy" for improvisors, time to book in and stretch yourself.
Topics covered:
Warm-up - a simple top-to-toe, outside in warm-up to help get you ready and open for a performance
Blocking - more than just 45+45, principles and exercises to ensure you're seen/heard and how to emphasise the choices and actions of your group
Staging - how to perform with, not against unusual playing spaces and ways to make plain spaces interesting.
About Tom
Tom has created theatre with South London Theatre for over 10 years; performing, designing, producing and directing across classic and contemporary pieces. Tom is a founder member of Linc Theatre having written and produced and performed Replay: The Stage Play.
Tom has been improvising for over 7 years; learning in multiple schools, under international teachers and at festivals. Tom has taught improv for theatrical performers and corporate speaking, produced shows and performs with La Wronge. Tom was part of the debut team that performed Somewhere on the Other Side of this Wide Night with The Pretend Company at Improfestival Karlsruhe in 2024.
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