Monologues & Confidences - Direct Address, Emotional Truth & Intimate Storytelling
Teacher: Heyfa Limam
Date: Wednesday 16th September
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Duration of Workshop: 3 hours
Venue: Studio B
Minimum/Maximum No. of Participants: 6/12
Level: Intermediate
Price: Regular €40 Early Bird (till 31st May) €35
Workshop Description
A workshop focused on crafting authentic monologues and learning to hold the audience with presence, nuance, and emotional depth. Participants explore different forms of monologues ( internal, external, direct address to the audience or indirect). The work also develops narrative tension and emotional precision, helping performers transform personal or fictional stories into compelling theatrical moments. Through guided exercises, they learn to refine what they project and how the audience perceives it, enhancing vulnerability, rhythm, and the overall impact of their storytelling.
Participants will explore:
How to connect with an audience through direct or indirect address.
Techniques to access emotional depth without forcing or exaggeration.
Ways to build narrative tension inside a monologue.
Breath, silence, and stillness as storytelling tools.
How to manage the relationship between what a performer projects and what the
audience perceives.
The balance between vulnerability, presence, and clarity of intention.
Feel It to Believe It: Emotion as the Magic Ingredient
Teacher: Diana Brown
Date: Wednesday 16th September
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Duration of Workshop: 3 hours
Venue: Studio B
Minimum/Maximum No. of Participants: 6/12
Level: Open
Price: Regular €40 Early Bird (till 31st May) €35
Workshop Description
In this emotionally rich, playfully deep workshop, we’ll explore how authentic feeling transforms improv from clever to captivating. Emotion isn’t just a tool—it’s the magic ingredient that gives your characters depth, your relationships weight, and your comedy heart. In this workshop, through focused exercises and dynamic scene work, you’ll learn to Tap into your emotional truth, Respond instinctively, And leave a lasting impression on stage.
Teacher: Ahmed Achrafi
Date: Thursday 17th September
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Duration of Workshop: 3 hours
Venue: Studio B
Minimum/Maximum No. of Participants: 6/12
Level: Open
Price:Regular €40 Early Bird (till 31st May) €35
Workshop Description
This workshop addresses the tension many improvisers feel around risk, mistakes, and vulnerability. Rather than trying to eliminate fear, participants will learn how to work with it as a source of energy. Through supportive exercises and playful challenges, improvisers will be encouraged to work alongside their fear and explore boldly within a safe, guided space. We’ll examine how uncertainty and discomfort can lead to a stronger connection, bolder choices, and performances that feel more alive. Participants will discover practical ways to turn perceived failure into creative possibility, embracing risk to heighten presence, sharpen instincts, and make scenes more daring, dynamic, and truthful.
Brave Play: Turning Fear into Fuel
Teachers: Jen Hardy and Owen Scrivens
Date: Thursday 17th September
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Duration of Workshop: 3 hours
Venue: Studio B
Minimum/Maximum No. of Participants: 6/12
Level: Intermediate
Price:Regular €40. Early Bird (till 31st May) €35
Workshop Description
Want to know how to 'feel at home' in a duo? This workshop with Jen & Owen will give you tricks, tools and tips to help you in two-person scenes and shows so you can build whole worlds together with dynamic characters and real feeling!
You don’t have to be in a duo to follow this workshop, but if you are you’re welcome to work together!
Feel "At Home" with your Duo Partner
Teacher: Ferran Luengo
Date: Friday 18th September
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Duration of Workshop: 3 hours
Venue: Studio B
Minimum/Maximum No. of Participants: 6/12
Level: Advanced
Price:Regular €40 Early Bird (till 31st May) €35
Workshop Description
Inspired by forms of theatre for social change—such as Playback Theatre and the various branches of Theatre of the Oppressed—we will explore techniques that bring a social dimension to our scenes. Together, we’ll showcase the universal truths that can be found within them.
Playback Theatre
Teacher: Lisa Lynn
Date: Friday 18th September
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Duration of Workshop: 3 hours
Venue: Studio B
Minimum/Maximum No. of Participants: 6/12
Level: Open
Price: Regular €40 Early Bird (till 31st May) €35
Workshp Description
Beginners A Cappella Improv: In this a cappella beginners intensive you will learn how to be the music behind the lyrics; how to underscore any scene; and how to take your musical improv to the next level (even in a power cut!)
Work on your beat-boxing, body-percussion, rap, dance, acting, conducting and singing; add these to your improv experience - and you have the 8 pillars of Acaprov: The Improvised A Cappella Musical.
This course is best suited to musical improvisers, freestyle rappers and singers who have not yet tried doing it a cappella, and are ready to take the next step. If you love improvising musicals but are not the most confident singer, worry not, pitching is not essential as non-singers can speak-sing, rap and do percussion to navigate the workshop playing to their strengths. It’s a supportive space.
Intro to A Cappella Impro
Teacher: Alessio Granato
Date: Saturday 19th September
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Duration of Workshop: 3 hours
Venue: Studio B
Minimum/Maximum No. of Participants: 6/12
Level: Open
Price: Regular €40 Early Bird (till 31st May) €35
Workshop Description
No musical skills or knowledge are required for this workshop. We will explore how certain “abilities” are innate and have always been part of us, while also discovering the importance of silence, pauses, rhythm, and listening—fundamental elements in the creative process of the improviser, both individually and as a group, following the emotional flow sparked by music.
Music can make us cry, move us, make us laugh, sometimes even shout, jump, or dance. It encourages us and recharges us. Often, it makes us fall in love.
Music is a collection of emotions to be experienced and discovered—and emotions are an essential element in building an improvised scene.
Music will therefore be an active and integral part of the workshop, including exercises on rhythm and physical-emotional engagement, allowing participants to improvise while being carried by the energy generated by the music.
Attitude
The Best of Both Worlds: Where Scripted Craft Meets Improvised Freedom - An Improv Workshop Blending Theatrical Structure with Spontaneity
Teachers: ImprompTwo (Kathy Rinaldi and Joe Rinaldi)
Date: Saturday 19th September
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Duration of Workshop: 3 hours
Venue: Studio B
Minimum/Maximum No. of Participants: 6/12
Level: Intermediate
Price:Regular €40 Early Bird (till 31st May) €35
Workshop Description
What if improvised scenes had the emotional depth, pacing, and intention of scripted theatre—without losing the thrill of the unknown? In this dynamic workshop inspired by ImprompTwo’s signature style, improvisers will explore the powerful overlap between scripted acting techniques and improvisational theatre. Drawing from theatrical storytelling, character work, and ensemble awareness, this workshop helps improvisers create scenes that feel fully written in the moment—rich with subtext, intention, and emotional logic.
Participants will learn how tools commonly associated with scripted performance—such as beats, objectives, silence, and physical staging—can deepen improvised scenes, making them more grounded, surprising, and theatrically satisfying.
