Improv Scene Work

Learn techniques to create rich and real long form improv scenes.

When: 1-3.30pm Sunday afternoons beginning 16th March 2025. The final class of this course will be on 11th May, there is no class on 20th April.

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

Where: Blanche Improv HQ in London SW5 9EF

Coach: TBC

Cost: £290 (£246.50 concession rate)

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.

Blanche Improv Scene Work Course

What to expect from the course: Learn acting techniques that work well in improv, so you consistently create scenes you love being in. Blanche’s 8 week course in Improv Scene Work covers:

  • Connecting with your scene partner

  • Using sensory work to reveal the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘where’ of a scene

  • Enhancing scenes by being specific about your object work

  • Creating characters you can sustain and that work well in improv scenes

  • Emotional responses for improv

At the end of the course, participants should be able to confidently perform a variety of 2 minute improvised scenes demonstrating their ability to connect with their scene partners and play at least one character who is slightly different from themself. The show case format for this class is a La Ronde.

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 people who have done some improv training. If you are a complete beginner, Blanche recommends you take Improv Fundamentals before Improv Scene Work.

  • Intermediates: Take your scenes to the next level! Develop your ability to play organic, long form improv scenes. Learn how to create great characters that work well in improv.

  • Experienced Improvisers: Push the limits of your improv- play voice of reason characters that are interesting in their own right, learn how far you can take your wacky characters and when to reign them in. Spend some time doing lovely, satisfying, grounded scenes that just make sense.

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

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