workshops

This workshop will expand your improv arsenal with lots of simple, easy-to-implement tools that you can use in any scene. You'll be amazed at how quickly we can shake away your tired, habitual go-to's and start initiating and responding from fresh and surprising places. We’ll do a lot of short, two person scenes that play around with different narrow focuses. Keep the techniques that work for you and add them to your improv toolbox! You’ll find them invaluable when you’re looking to get out of your head and into the meat of a good scene.

The choices we make at the beginning of a scene should be significant, and learning how to notice the significance of those early choices (and the choices of our scene partners) is an important part of what will make our improv interesting and fun. This workshop will focus on the importance of making big choices and sticking with them rather than hoping that something more interesting will come along 10 or 20 seconds later.

In this workshop, you’ll turn up the dials on your acting skills—bringing this necessary piece of the improv puzzle to the forefront. Practice making specific emotional choices that are grounded in reality, and experiment with unexpected emotional responses that will create instant character dynamics and make your scenes interesting and engaging from the top. 

They say authenticity is about being your whole self, but what does that really mean? In this workshop, we will explore the YOU that you bring to the stage in every scene. We’ll explore key memories from our past, emotional reactions to core values and celebrations of our unique talents. We’ll practise how to inspire characters, scenes and plot development all from our lived experience, which in turn develops our own unique improv voice and style. So even though it’s a team sport, let’s put the ‘I’ into ‘improv’!

Learn the UK’s favourite improv form: The Narrative. Jess Rogers, one of London’s most respected improv coaches will expertly share the skills you need to joyfully play in a narrative show that feels like a proper play. You will learn how to make character choices that move the story along, when to triumph and who should lose.

Everybody get in here—it’s time to talk about your group games. If you’re looking to level up your Harolds, there’s no better way to do it than to get wild and weird with your group games. In this workshop, you’ll play with some general templates for non-scenic group games, and then you’ll start creating your own! Group games are the only place in the Harold where absurd, silly, and ungrounded ideas have a home. Why not use this part of the show to go on a surprising creative journey that blows our audiences’ minds?

This workshop will teach you how to play yourself and react honestly while still keeping the scene alive with fun, top of your intelligence moves. Perfect for improvisers who get stuck in argument, players who constantly find themselves playing weird unjustified characters, and everyone in between.