Impro – making it up as you go along -
an introduction to narrative improvisation

Workshop Facilitator:
Richard Ahsam

Tuesday 30 July 5-7PM, Studio

We’ve all seen Who’s line is it Anyway or Mock the Week. You just say the first (hopefully) funny thing that comes out of your head. Well – that’s that workshop finished with.

I would like to introduce you to Narrative improvisation. The ability to tell an extended story with a group of creatives.

“I’m going to make it up as I go along – It doesn’t need an introduction” Yes and No!
Yes - I would like you to say the first thing that comes into your head.
No - that first thing is not going to stop that story from ever developing to reach its full potential.

There are pitfalls with just taking a story and running with it and in this session, I hope we discover what some of those are and overcome them to tell a cracking story.  Afterall drama is just telling stories – isn’t it?

Richard Ahsam is an actor, playwright, teacher and dreamer.   Many years ago, I used to run the youth theatre with my wife Suki, when it was Group 64 but all of those young people are all grown up with children of their own – hopefully they are very happy. I was a cast member of the first improvised soap opera and have been teaching impro ever since. I used to run summer schools in Kent where the group would come up with whatever they wanted.  It was always interesting. I recently worked on an immersive history project in Hastings. I am now of an age where I get to play Santa.  How cool is that?