EIGHT things I learnt from my Brighton Fringe Improv show!

The first thing I need to caveat is that these are my views.

These are not the views of Emily, Lewis and Mikey.

They might share them, but at this point in time, at this time of recording, I haven't shared these views with them.

So they're just mainly kind of reflections on what I thought rather than generally what the consensus thought.

So the first thing I think I'll probably do is kind of group them into kind of aspects that were overarching things about the show and then a couple of things that I did or didn't do that I wanted to share with you as well.

So the first thing in terms of overarching things that happened is... is the foundations that we set up at the beginning were, in the main, quite solid.

So we agreed beforehand that what we would have is a location, a single location, and then within that location there were mini locations.

So the location that we got given was a yoga studio, and then we added three sort of mini sub-locations within that.

So we had a recruitment or the HR centre, we had the yoga studio itself, We had then an AI machine at the back and then we had a yogurt vending machine at the front.

And so the first few scenes that we had were really kind of foundation building and they were quite good.

They allowed us to kind of just settle into the show and settle into the space and understand the dynamic of the different characters there.

and actually we also had a couple of smaller scenes in there as well which actually helped break up the dynamic a little bit and particularly some of the slower build scenes so that was actually quite useful so in the main I thought that we did some foundation scene setting quite well now if you are an established improviser you may be familiar with the Harold technique which is where an improvised show is set up at the very beginning with three very distinctive scenes and that's not something we consciously thought about but it was something that I reflected on afterwards and thought well actually I think we did a pretty good job of those are having three distinct scenes in different areas of those locations with different types of characters so that was the first point I thought that was a good start and that was something that set us up I think very well for the rest of the show The other thing I'd note is that there was some really good pace, particularly towards the end of the show as well, where we had sort of almost a switching between two different scene locations very, very quickly, almost one line's been sort of said, and that was a really wonderful crescendo to the end of the show.

So that sort of pace was something we'd been thinking about in rehearsals beforehand, not just sort of slower, longer scenes and build up, but actually those interspersed with quicker scenes as well.

And as I say, towards the end, there was a lot of speedy sort of darting between one scene and another scene as those scenes listened to each other and built up a real sort of funny end to the show.

So that was really, really fun.

And the third point I'd kind of make in that regard, sort of segues from that, I found the whole show incredibly playful.