At the start of 2020, we were set for a bumper year of improv. And then that thing with the pandemic happened. Looking back, we were luckier than most. When the government introduced hand sanitising and 1.5m social distancing on 15 March, we immediately adapted our...
We keep an eye out for improvisation research, and once in a while the mainstream media does too. The day after our last newsletter went out in June, the ABC — the Australian one, not the U.S. one — published an interesting article on the history of sports psychology,...
That old chestnut of questions in theatrical improvisation scenes has popped up a number of times over the years, and seems to be doing the rounds of our local community yet again. Like many theatrical improvisation techniques, it’s either taught wrong in early levels...
In December 2017, The Sydney Morning Herald published a story about how playful parents can prevent anxious kids. How do parents become more playful? And what does this mean for children and improvisation? Improvisors know very well. In the last 10 years, research...
We were really looking forward to reading Sam Wasson‘s new book Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art. Published in late December 2017, Wasson’s book documents the history of the development of improv and sketch comedy in the U.S. What many may find...
Access & inclusion in improv is one of the great extrinsic benefits of improvisation, and why the greatly increased awareness of improvisation in recent years, is going to have a huge positive effect on the human race in the next few decades. Improvisation is by...
