Effortless Scenes and Meaningful Moments - A Workshop with PGraph

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Effortless Scenes and Meaningful Moments - A Workshop with PGraph

Great theatre is made up of great moments. We don't have the luxury of rewrites and planning in improv, but that doesn't mean we can't treat each moment on stage with importance and weight. In this half-day workshop, you will learn to give even your smallest moves the attention they deserve, read your scene partner's subtlest offers, and fulfil the promises your scene choices make to the audience. The result? Endlessly watchable characters and scenes that are effortless to perform.

Have you ever heard the phrase, “bring a brick, not a cathedral?” You’ll practice building scenes, characters, and relationships one moment at a time. You’ll also learn to use your personal history and POV in scenes to make them more natural, enjoyable, and fun to improvise.

(We will take a break for lunch partway through the workshop! Bring lunch or pop to a nearby pub/tesco/cafe for lunch.)

About The Instructors

Parallelogramophonograph (Kareem Badr, Kaci Beeler, Roy Janik, and Valerie Ward) has been performing together for over 20 years and 1500 shows (and counting!). Fiercely dedicated to the craft and art of improvised theatre, PGraph has held a weekly show in Austin since 2006. Intrigued by the challenge of telling fantastic, fully-improvised stories together as an ensemble, PGraph spent years developing original formats and studying scripted theatre, improv, and storytelling. They've toured the country and the world performing and teaching their unique brand of improv with ensemble appearances in over 65 cities in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and the UK.

Renowned for their theatricality, playfulness, and hive-mind-like ensemble, their goal with every show is to push both themselves and the art of improvisation to new and dizzying heights while taking the audience along for a joyous ride.

PGraph regularly performs at The Hideout Theatre in Austin, Texas. Their book on narrative improv, "Do It Now", is for sale on their website (http://www.pgraph.com) as well as digitally on Amazon.

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