Improvisation for Actors

Many directors use improvisation as a rehearsal tool in order to flesh out a character or the story of the play and to discover spontaneity and truth.

This course will help you gain confidence with spontaneity, presence and improvisation, and provide you with the tools to work on creating backstory and other life experiences for a character in a play or film.

Course Content

Discover how to improvise with confidence, developing spontaneity and presence along the way
Explore improvisation exercises that Stanislavski, Grotowski, Michael Chekhov, Keith Johnstone, Viola Spolin and others devised in order to create characters and explore the situations in which they find themselves
Explore how improvisation can be used in the creation and devising process as well as to support text based drama
Discover your own impro style and preferences and how to harness them
Explore body language and its importance and effect on actor and audience
Work practically on discovering ‘character’ body language and the meaning of action

Course Dates

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Booking Information

Our courses are available on a first come, first served basis in order of payment.

To secure a place, please take the following steps:

Read through our Terms and Conditions before booking
Click on ‘Book your place’ above. Please make sure you are booking for the correct course and option (i.e. Mon/Wed or Tue/Thu if more than one option is available)
Click ‘Select’ and follow the steps through to the completion of booking
If your preferred dates are sold out, you can click ‘Join Waiting List’ and we will let you know if a place becomes available

Actors who are comfortable with text-based or physical work but want more experience in improvisation
Anyone curious about how to be spontaneous and improvise in character

Days	Various. The course consists of 8 sessions in total and is delivered once a week for 8 weeks.
Times	All times listed are either GMT or GMT +1 (depending on the time of year). If you’re joining from overseas, please use a timezone convertor before booking to establish what the local time will be for you.
Age	The minimum age is 18 on the first day of the course. There is no upper age limit.
Max. class size	16 students
Course Delivery	All of the Evening Courses take place onsite at our Swiss Cottage campus in London.
International students	We welcome International Students to our courses, however please ensure you are on the correct visa. As our Evening Courses are classed as part-time, non-accredited short courses they are not eligible for a Tier 4 Student Visa however you may be eligible for a Short Term Study Visa.
Language requirements	Applicants must be confident speaking and reading English to a conversational level (IELTS score of 7.0 or equivalent). You may be expected to read texts/scripts that have advanced vocabulary.
Attendance	Due to the structure and the collaborative nature of the courses, full attendance is requested.
Refunds	We are able to offer a full refund up until 7 days before the course begins. After this, the course will become fully non-refundable.
Cancellations	Central reserves the right to cancel this course if we do not meet the minimum number of participants. In this instance, a full refund will be made to you. We are unable to refund any other costs you may have incurred.