Level 2 Improv - Characters, Status & Emotions
In this course, we will look at 3 elements key to nearly all theatrical performance formats: Characters, Status and Emotions.
In a theatrical performance we rarely play ourselves… more likely we want to walk on as a Character, with a certain Status, with an Emotion, or a combination of all three.
In this course, we will learn:
How to spontaneously invent a new character.
How to play characters with a high or low status.
How to find different emotions and physically show them.
As usual, there will be a lot of working in pairs, group exercises, and some fun group games designed for us to ’fail’ and mitigate all that anxiety of getting things ‘wrong’. Getting things ’wrong’ is frequently a huge source of comedy, and it's Improv GOLD!
There will be an end of course show for friends and family, in which it is optional to perform.
Students should either have attended a Level 1 Introduction to Improv course, or at least know the basic ‘rules’ of Improv such as ‘Yes, and…’.
All Level 2 courses are standalone, limited to 16 students, and if you miss any classes, this is not a problem.
Who teaches this course?
Ant Griffith has completed Questor's Foundation and Advanced Performance courses as well as graduating in Foundations of Acting at Mountview Drama School. He has studied improvisation at The Free Association, Hoopla, The Nursery and The Maydays under Suki Webster, Josie Lawrence, Katy Schutte & Maria Peters, and is the founder and tutor of the Questors home improv team The Slack Captains. He is also a musician and songwriter, with several songs in the movie 'The Girl with a Clock for a Heart' directed by Daniel Barber, currently in pre-production.
