MPROV 2011 • MPROV 2011

MPROV 2011 - WORKSHOPS

Each workshop is 2 hours long and costs $40 ($30 for festival performers).

Oct 15th. 12-2pm
TIME TO GET REAL - MAKE YOUR SCENES LONGER, HARDER & MULTI-ORGANIC w/ Egg Zeppelin

In this long-form scene-work intensive you will drop all your gags, tricks, sweeps and tag edits at the door. This 2-hour class will focus on the building blocks of creating organic, truthful scenes in real time, in the moment. Learn how to fast-track into believable characters, with particular attention paid to common problems such as avoiding negativity towards scene partners, towards yourself and getting rid of the urge to gag - the buzz-kill of all improv scenes. This is a chance to work with 2 experienced instructors coaches who will look objectively at the work you’re doing and offer constructive feedback and suggestions on how to bring your game to the next level.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Kris Siddiqi and Marcel St. Pierre are Canadian Comedy award-nominated and winning veterans of the Toronto improv scene, with 30 years collective experience between them. They bring together a mix of improv styles gleaned from their work with The Bad Dog Theatre Company and The Second City, as well as their studies with instructors from Vancouver, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles improv circles.

Oct. 15th, 3-5pm

Getting Out Of The Pigeonhole, or, How I Stopped Playing the Wife, the Nurse, and the Hooker w/ Outside Joke.

In this workshop, Outside Joke will arm you with the tools necessary to creatively and confidently step away from playing characters that are too safe, or all too often assigned to you before you’ve even stepped out of the wings. Men! Women! It happens to us all! Stand up for your characters and take this workshop!

Oct. 16th, 12-2pm

Intro to Game of the Scene w/ Standards & Practices

Every scene you perform has a game. Learn to spot that game, and then heighten and explore it to levels you never thought possible. In this workshop you’ll learn to find the game threw specific scenic exercises, play the game and work the patterns that game requires in order to have a none stop laugh riot of a scene. If an improv scene is a loaded gun, then the game is it’s bullets. Are you heading to the shooting range?