Online Improv Elective: Viola Spolin Theater Games

This fun, active workshop will provide you with the most important games, ideas, and techniques at the core of all improvisation. You will learn new games, experience a space walk, and hear inspirational stories about the beginning of Improv. Mostly you will just play! Spolin games enhance all aspects of performance, and can apply to your personal life. This is the work that has launched the careers of many of our most famous actors and improvisers, like Alan Arkin and Alan Alda, and has been used by directors like Mike Nichols and Rob Reiner. This is a rare opportunity to experience Spolin workshops, not easily found on Eventbrite. Advanced players will also benefit from this workshop.

In this workshop you can expect:

Theater Games

Space Walk

7 Aspects of Spontaneity

Stories of Improv Past

New Warmup Games

We offer free places for all online drop-ins and electives in order to make sure that the fun and community of improvisation is available to as many people as possible across the globe. Free tickets available to those who are unable to afford them. Option to Buy a place, Give a place - for yourself and a place for someone less able to afford it.

Is there an instructor you would love to work with or a topic you would love covered? Pop us an email.

Nursery/Maydays Sunday Classes

We work hard to provide a welcoming environment for all improvisers. In order to give space to different experiences and identities, the Nursery and the Maydays have worked to provide opportunities for specific groups to meet, connect, and improvise with one another. Each workshop will cover different topics depending on the instructor. Sometimes sessions will be aimed at particular skills, issues and questions, and other times they will simply be a place for people to come together and play.

The Nursery and the Maydays are constantly working to create programming based on the needs of our current students and the global improv community. If there is an underrepresented group that you would like to see have a workshop, send an email.

Min. participants 6, max. 12.

Max Schafer leads Spolin workshops around the world. He is the author of “Viola Spolin’s Theater Games for the Classroom” Multimedia CD. He has studied under and was directed by Viola Spolin. He was stage manager for Paul Sills. He runs the World Spolin Network, Musical Dance Network, and Dance Impro Network on Facebook. He also studied with Carol Sills, Aretha Sills, Alan Arkin, Dick Schaal, Avery Schrieber, and Gary Schwartz. Max runs the World Spolin Network, Musical Improv Network, and Dance Improv Network on Facebook.

This open workshop runs Sunday 13th June, 5 - 7.00 pm BST.

Open - A class for anyone, regardless of their improv experience. Although more experienced players are of course welcome, the content does not require any prior improv knowledge.

Whatever the level of ability required, all of our classes are safe, supportive environments led by our experienced teachers. Please email us if you are unsure whether a class is suitable for you. If you sign up for a class inappropriate to your level the Nursery/Maydays reserved the right to remove you from the class without refund.

Closed captioning is available in all of our classes and courses. If you need any information on how to access this in zoom, please contact classes@thenurserytheatre.com