DON’T THINK ABOUT IT. HONESTLY IT’S THE BEST THING EVER. JUST DO IT - Vishal
Upcoming Term Dates:
Next Beginners/PowerUp Course Starts: April 2026
March 9th: Term 2 Courses On The Website
March 16th: Term 2 Courses On Sale
April 13th: Term 2 Courses Begin
CLASSES & COURSES TO BOOK NOW:
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SUNDAY OPEN WORKSHOP
TEACHER:Various
LEVEL: Open (Beginner friendly)
CLASS SIZE: 18 paxDAY: Every Sunday
TIMES: 2:30pm - 4:30pm & 5:00 - 7:00pmPRICE: 10€
This fun, low-pressure afternoon of games and play is suitable for anyone, from acting hot shots to total newbies. All levels and language abilities are catered for, and the focus is on having fun and giving it a go. Secondary benefits may include improved confidence, stress relief, giggling fits, new friends and spontaneous outbursts of joy!
Every open workshop has a different theme and a different instructor with an emphasis on giving it a go, and getting plenty of chances to play. If you’ve been to one of our shows, and think this improv thing looks like fun (if a little impossible), join us for a session and see just how fun and possible it can be.
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POWERUP! (CONNECT)
TEACHER: Noha Mousbah
TIER: Open
PRE REQUISITE: None
CLASS SIZE: 14 paxSTARTS: Thursday 23rd April
TIMES: Thursdays 5:00pm - 7:00pm
DURATION: 6 weeks
CLASS DATES: 20/4, 27/4, 4/5, 11/5, 18/5, 25/5PRICE: 165€
Welcome to the public-speaking and presentation workshop that actually works. In this transformative program, you’ll reshape the way you work, pitch, present, and communicate through six dynamic modules. Drawing from the techniques of improv and theatre, the course brings powerful performance skills into a professional setting—supportive, safe, and designed for real growth.
With a focus authenticity, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and genuine human-to-human communication we explore:
- Your Authentic Voice
- Listening & Connecting
- Body Language
- Flow State
- Risk Taking
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FOUNDATIONS OF IMPROV 1
TEACHER: Noha Mousbah
TIER: 1
PRE REQUISITE: None
CLASS SIZE: 14 paxSTARTS: Wednesday 22nd April
TIMES: 4:30pm - 7:00pm
DURATION: 6 weeks
SHOWCASE: Sunday 31st May
CLASS DATES: 22/4, 29/4, 6/5, 13/5, 20/5, 27/5PRICE: 150€
Get ready to unleash your creativity! If you’re looking for where to start, this course is your ticket to the world of improv comedy and theatre. Perfect for curious minds, and completely beginner friendly, this class is about boosting confidence, teamwork, the joy of play, and fostering a positive outlook with a focus on having fun and giving it a go. No experience required, laughs 100% guaranteed. Secondary benefits may include improved confidence, stress relief, giggling fits, new friends and spontaneous outbursts of joy!
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FOUNDATIONS OF IMPROV 2
TEACHER: Pol Subirana
TIER: 1
PRE REQUISITE: Foundations of Improv 1
CLASS SIZE: 14 paxSTARTS: Thursday 16th April
TIMES: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
DURATION: 6 weeks
SHOWCASE: Sunday 24th May
CLASS DATES: 16/4, 23/4, 30/4, 7/5, 14/5, 21/5PRICE: 150€
Now that you’ve got the basics in place, it’s time to go bigger and have even more fun with some hilarious scene games. In part two of your beginner improv journey, you’ll learn how to heighten emotions, accept your partner’s offers, give details and life to a scene, and commit like your life depends on it. You’re ready to take things to the next level of fun. Build entire worlds, characters, and delightful scenarios when you play your way through some of the funnest games that improv has to offer!
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SING YOUR SONG
TEACHER: Ella Galt
TIER: 2
PRE REQUISITE: Foundations of Improv 1 & 2
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Thursday 16th April
TIMES: Thursdays 7:30pm - 10:00pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Friday 29th May & Friday 10th July
CLASS DATES: 16/4, 23/4, 30/4, 7/5, 14/5, 21/5, 28/5, 4/6, 11/6, (18/6 no class), 25/6, 2/7, 9/7PRICE: 340€
Join us for an immersive dive into the world of musical improv. Find your musical voice, learn basic song structures, rhyme games, harmonising and sing your heart out while having a great time! This course is a complete introduction to musical improv. Find your unique sound, and the rhythm and melody already in the body, work as a team to build entire song structures. Sing! Dance! Lead! Follow! Support! Harmonise! And have a blast doing it.
*Our musical improv courses are slightly more expensive than our regular programming because they are lead by two staff members simultaneously. The course will have 3 accompanists: Joanna Kucharczyk & Håvard Enstad.
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SCENE: TELL THE STORY
TEACHER: Pol Subirana
TIER: 2
PRE REQUISITE: Foundations of Improv 1 & 2
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Monday 13th April
TIMES: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Sunday 31st May & Saturday 11th July
CLASS DATES: 13/4, 20/4, 27/4, 4/5, 11/5, 18/5, 25/5, 1/6, (8/6 no class), 15/6, 22/6, 29/6, 6/7PRICE: 290€
What is this scene about? Sometimes we start playing a scene, we create characters, we create an environment, and then… we don’t know what to do. In this course, students will learn the tools to help them move a scene forward and make the big choices to create action. Using the structure of narrative, we will create scenes that have a beginning, middle, and end. This course helps students perfect the what of their improv scenes. You will learn how to become a better story teller and how to bring your scenes to a satisfying resolution.
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ART OF THE STAGE
TEACHER: Jenny Bareilles
TIER: 2
PRE REQUISITE: Foundations of Improv 1 & 2
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Wednesday 15th April
TIMES: 10:00am - 12:30pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Friday 22nd May & Sunday 12th July
CLASS DATES: 15/4, 22/4, 29/4, 6/5, 13/5, 20/5, 27/5, 3/6, 10/6, 17/6, 24/6, (1/7 no class), 8/7PRICE: 290€
This high energy class focuses on bringing out the confident, theatrical, and present performer in you. Make bold, committed choices, fill the stage with beautiful images, find the fun in physical and vocal choices and get plenty of practice playing a range of games and scenes. Make big on-stage moves and see them through to the end of the scene, learn the art of staging, voice projection and physicality to create a truly theatrical show. Find the comedy and delight yourself, your fellow players, and your audience with joyful scenes
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CHARACTER: BE SOMEBODY
TEACHER: Kiva Murphy
TIER: 2
PRE REQUISITE: Foundations of Improv 1 & 2
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Friday 17th April
TIMES: Fridays 5:30pm - 8:00pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Friday 29th May & Friday 10th July
CLASS DATES: 17/4, 24/4, 1/5, (8/5 no class), 15/5, 22/5, 29/5, 5/6, 12/6, 19/6, 26/6, 3/7, 10/7PRICE: 290€
Get ready to embark on an adventure of character creation! Sharpen your tools to craft and embody a delightful array of characters, sustaining their charm throughout your scenes. Delve deeply into the art of using bodywork voice, history, point of view, and emotions. Explore the myriad of ways to access and infuse life into characters, discover how to seamlessly integrate them into scenes with fellow performers, and relish the opportunity to practice making bold choices and sticking to them.
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IMPROV ACTING
TEACHER: Ella Galt
TIER: 3
PRE REQUISITE: 2 x Tier II courses
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Wednesday 15th April
TIMES: 10:00am - 12:30pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Sunday 24th May & Saturday 11th July
CLASS DATES: 15/4, 22/4, 29/4, 6/5, 13/5, 20/5, 27/5, 3/6, 10/6, (17/6 no class), 24/6, 1/7, 8/7PRICE: 290€
Improv is fun to play and watch, but our ability to surprise, wonder and light ourselves and our audience on stage comes now to our commitment and presence. We need excellent acting skills to speak authentically from within our characters, leap boldly into unknown territory, and listen and react honestly to what our partner reveals. This 12-week course provides a training ground for the improv actor and will help you to become the invested, grounded, and convincing theatre-maker you are.
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IMPROV ACTING
TEACHER: Ella Galt
TIER: 3
PRE REQUISITE: 2 x Tier II courses
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Friday 17th April
TIMES: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Friday 22nd May & Friday 10th July
CLASS DATES: 17/4, 24/4, 1/5, 8/5, 15/5, 22/5, 29/5, 5/6, 12/6, (19/6 no class), 26/6, 3/7, 10/7PRICE: 290€
Improv is fun to play and watch, but our ability to surprise, wonder and light ourselves and our audience on stage comes now to our commitment and presence. We need excellent acting skills to speak authentically from within our characters, leap boldly into unknown territory, and listen and react honestly to what our partner reveals. This 12-week course provides a training ground for the improv actor and will help you to become the invested, grounded, and convincing theatre-maker you are.
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INTRO TO LONGFORM: LIVING ROOM
TEACHER: Kiva Murphy
TIER: 3
PRE REQUISITE: 2 x Tier II courses
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Tuesday 14th April
TIMES: Tuesday 7:30pm - 10:00pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Sunday 31st May & Sunday 12th July
CLASS DATES: 14/4, 21/4, 28/4, 5/5, 12/5, 19/5, 26/5, (2/6 no class), 9/6, 16/6, 23/6, 30/6, 7/7PRICE: 290€
Welcome to Intro to Longform! This course equips you to craft scenes organically, without pre-set structures. Draw inspiration from diverse sources and weave complete scenes from scratch. Enter 'The Living Room,' a classic improv format driven by real player conversations inspiring scenes. Dig deep, creating scenes with lasting impact beyond a couple of minutes. Your team becomes your safety net, offering support as you navigate the stage without an MC. In the driver's seat during performances, students take control, steering the show with their newfound skills.
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TIER 3 TASTER
TEACHERS: Ella Galt, Jenny Bareilles, Kiva Murphy, Leanne Shellshear, Pol Subirana
TIER: 3
PRE REQUISITE: 2 x Tier II courses
CLASS SIZE: 12 pax
STARTS: Saturday 18th April
TIMES: Saturdays 11:00am - 1:30pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
CLASS DATES: 18/4, 25/4, 2/5, 9/5, 16/5, 23/5, 30/5, 6/6, 13/6, (20/6 no class), 27/6, 4/7, 11/7
PRICE: 290€
Ready for something different? A tasting plate where you’ll spend 2 consecutive classes each on 6 niche improv topics with 6 different teachers who are super passionate about those topics!
The running order for the new Saturday class is:
• 18/4 & 25/4) INSPIRED BY ANIMALS with Kiva
• 2/5 & 9/5) ALMOST HUMAN with Jenny
• 16/5 & 23/5) IN THE DARK with Leanne
• 30/5 & 6/6) GAME with Ella
• 13/6 & 27/6) UNEXPECTED CHOICES with Kiva
• 4/7 & 11/7) EMOTIONS with Pol -

BODY LOGIC
TEACHER: Kiva Murphy
TIER: 3
PRE REQUISITE: 2 x Tier II courses
CLASSSIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Wednesday 15th April
TIMES: Wednesdays 7:30pm - 10:00pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Sunday 24th May & Sunday 12th July
CLASS DATES: 15/4, 22/4, 29/4, 6/5, 13/5, (20/5 no class), 27/5, 3/6, 10/6, 17/6, 24/6, 1/7, 8/7PRICE: 290€
Ready to ditch the script and move? This high-energy course fuses Lecoq’s neutral mask, animal instincts, and Decroux’s body magic with Grotowski’s raw impulse and Gaulier’s gloriously grotesque Bouffon.Find stillness. Then chaos. Build worlds from air, move as one wild chorus, and laugh like troublemakers. It’s physical improv on fire, where instinct rules, bodies speak louder than words, and play is the only law. Perfect for bold improvisers who want to feel first, think later.
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WORLDS & GIFTS
TEACHER: Jenny Bareilles
TIER: 4
PRE REQUISITE: 2 x Tier III courses
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Wednesday 15th April
TIMES: Wednesdays 7:30pm - 10:00pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Sunday 24th May & Sunday 12th July
CLASS DATES: 15/4, 22/4, 29/4, 6/5, 13/5, 20/5, 27/5, 3/6, 10/6, 17/6, 24/6, (1/7 no class), 8/7PRICE: 290€
Build, Endow, Play! Co-create rich scenes from nothing by mastering the art of building vivid, 3D environments with precision, play, and bold physical choices, turning thin air into high stakes. Discover how silence, detail, and stage picture transform chat into theatre. Then, level up your characters by mastering the gift: endowing others with juicy, playable traits that spark stories (without stealing their spark). Learn what to give, when to give it, and how to embody it physically, fully, and with joy. It’s all about generosity, discovery, and making your partner look brilliant. Let’s build worlds and throw parties in them.
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NARRATIVE IMPROV
TEACHER: Jenny Bareilles
TIER: 4
PRE REQUISITE: 2 x Tier III courses
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Tuesday 14th April
TIMES: Tuesdays 7:30pm - 10:00pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Friday 29th May & Saturday 11th July
CLASS DATES: 14/4, 21/4, 28/4, 5/5, 12/5, 19/5, 26/5, 2/6, 9/6, 16/6, 23/6, (30/6 no class), 7/7PRICE: 290€
Craving story, stakes, and emotional arcs? This course dives into narrative forms like the monoscene, movie style, and beyond, where every gesture, line, and silence builds a world with heart. This course dives deep into narrative arcs, beat-by-beat progression, and character evolution across a full show. We’ll explore how to weave backstory, escalate tension, and land powerful endings. Learn to track character wants, plant and pay off details, and build acts like a screenplay, rising tension, turning points, and all. For improvisers ready to craft stories with heart, shape, and unforgettable endings.
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PRETTY FLOWER
TEACHER: Leanne Shellshear
TIER: 4
PRE REQUISITE: 2 x Tier III courses
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Wednesday 15th April
TIMES: Wednesdays 4:30pm - 7:00pm
DURATION: 12 weeks
SHOWCASE: Sunday 31st May & Saturday 11th July
CLASS DATES: 15/4, 22/4, 29/4, 6/5, 13/5, 20/5, 27/5, (3/6 no class), 10/6, 17/6, 24/6, 1/7, 8/7PRICE: 290€
Also known a a Spokane, this classic improv format uses a grounded Monoscene as its base, and intersperses it with quick edits and game play, which follow the fun on free and flighty tangents before returning to the central scene. Enjoy balancing slow-paced, grounded scene work with comedic, high-energy 'petals.' This course provides the tools for creating a solid Monoscene base, as well as plenty of game play, seamless edits, idea generation, and ensemble work.
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BIG SPOTLIGHT: PRE-TEENS
TEACHER: Dominika Bakun
AGES: 9 - 13
CLASS SIZE: 12 paxSTARTS: Tuesday 13th January
TIMES: Tuesdays 5:30pm - 7:00pm
DURATION: year long
SHOWCASES: Tuesday 24th March & Tuesday 16th June
CLASS DATES: 13th January - 16th June: 13/1, 20/1, 27/1, 3/2, 10/2, 17/2, 24/2, 3/3, 10/3, 17/3, 24/3, 14/4, 21/4, 28/4, 5/5, 12/5, 19/5, 26/5, 2/6, 9/6, 16/6PRICE:
500€ paying annually
180€ paying each trimester
20€ paying per classUnleash your imagination with BIG Spotlight! Dive into a world of laughter and creativity with improv classes in English, perfect for pre-teens who love to explore, experiment, and express themselves. No experience needed—just a sense of adventure and a willingness to have fun.
Improv is all about boosting confidence, working as a team, and discovering the joy of thinking on your feet. Learn stagecraft, comedy, acting techniques, and sketch writing and celebrate your journey with an end of term showcase. Secondary perks? You might just find yourself feeling braver, calmer, and bursting with joy. So, are you ready to jump in and give it a go? Because we can’t wait to see the amazing, creative things you’ll come up with!
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NEURODIVERGENT IMPROV NEST
LEVEL: Open
GROUP SIZE: 18 paxDATES: Sunday 26th April
TIMES: 2:30pm - 5:00pmPRICE: 10€
A space for neurodivergent improvisers to connect, share and play.
Join BIG for a collaborative afternoon, facilitated by Leanne, where we will have an opportunity to celebrate different neurotypes, nerd out about improv, break ground on improv that suits us, and (most importantly) improvise and chat together. Please help to shape the afternoon by bringing along an idea for your favourite warm up, exercise, or game if you have one.