Level 1

Improv Fundamentals

An improv course focused on developing the fundamental skills which make long form improv feel fun and easy.

When: 7-9.30pm Tuesday evenings beginning 18th March 2025. The final class of this course will be on 6th May 2025.

Class Showcase: The Blanche Student Extravaganza on 11th May 2025

Where: Blanche Improv HQ in London SW5 9EF

Coach: Lelda

Cost: £290 (£246.50 concession rate)

If you’d like to sign up for Improv Fundamentals with a friend, email Blanche and she’ll give you both £20 off your course fee.

Bonus stuff: Two free tickets to any Blanche show, one free ticket for The Thursday Night Jam, free standby tickets to all Blanche shows and The Thursday Night Jam.

What to expect from the course: Learn (or recap) the skills that make improv feel fun and easy... or easier. Blanche’s 8 week course in Improv Fundamentals covers:

  • Listening. Like, really listening

  • Accepting and celebrating your scene partner’s offers

  • Creating a rich base reality to play in

  • Object work and stage craft

At the end of the course, participants should be able to perform a 2 minute improvised scene, adhering to the principles covered in the course. (The scene doesn’t need to be funny, it just needs to make sense in an improv kind of a way.) The show case format for this class is an Armando.

There will be a maximum of 12 participants in this course.

Blanche asks everyone in the Blanche Improv community to follow her Code of Conduct and students are required to abide by the Student Agreement.

Who is this course best suited to: This course is for anyone, but for different reasons.

  • Beginners: People who have never done improv before will be introduced to techniques essential to performing improvised theatre.

  • Intermediates: Maybe you’ve just finished a Game of The Scene course and your BRAIN HURTS!!! A course in improv fundamentals will remind you of how much fun improv is!

  • Experienced Improvisers: Sometimes we get so clever with our improv we forget to do the basic stuff and all of a sudden shows go off the rails, performances aren’t fun or we feel bored and out of sorts. Come back to the basics! Play with people who are new to improv and challenge yourself to support them to the moon!!

Sign up to Improv Fundamentals with a friend and you both get £20 off your course fee. Just email Blanche and she’ll sort the admin for you!!

Blanche will be running her 8 week Improv Fundamentals course throughout the year. Check out the Blanche Improv calendar for more dates.

Improv Fundamentals will also run as a three day intensive in July 2025, all those dates and details are here!