Maria Peters

About this course

The course explores how improvisers can create characters and scenes with emotional investment and audience appeal. Participants work with long-form scenes and formats, using playful exercises to move beyond overthinking and develop their character work. Character-focused activities are used to add further dimensions to improvised performances, while the course also considers the relationship between improvisers, scene partners and audiences.

What you'll learn

• Create compelling improvised characters with greater depth
• Develop long-form improvised scenes and formats
• Use character exercises to explore different dimensions of a character
• Shape scenes with emotional investment for an audience

Is this course right for you?

The course is labelled Intermediate, suggesting it is intended for learners developing beyond fundamental improvisation techniques. Participation involves playful character exercises, collaborative work with scene partners and improvising long-form scenes.