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All Classes
FA classes are organised and structured to give students more choice about where they train with us next.
Our courses are split into two sections, foundational skills - which will cover all the core skills required in longform improv - and performance pathways - which will focus on classes that are designed to teach a particular form or style for performance on stage. Our improv training sits alongside a range of writing, performance, clowning and a range of one-off skill courses.
foundation Improv Classes
Our Foundation Improv classes teach you all the fundamentals of good long-form improv. Starting with no-experience-necessary Level 1, you’ll learn the core skills of listening, ‘yes and’, support and discovery. In level 2 you’ll dive deeper into on-stage performance, creating characters and performing as a group. And in Level 3 we introduce you to the comedic engine of improv scenes at The FA - Game!
£20
0:Taster Class (Optional)
£325
1: Intro to Long Form Improv
£325
2: Scenework
£335
3: Game
Performance Pathways
Our performance level improv courses are for students who have passed our Foundation Level 3 Game course. These courses train you to be a show ready comedy improviser working on your on-stage skills and developing you as a comedic performer. Each pathway focuses on a specific style, approach or format. Choose from Premise, Organic or Narrative Improv! …or do all 3!
Premise Pathway
Premise improv tends to get to the comedy quickly by distilling the fun ideas from the opening and initiating scenes with a game ready to go! This pathway begins with learning The Armando - a form where scenes are inspired by an opening monologue - and leads into The Harold - a famous improv format that uses an opening to generate the ideas for an entire three-beat show.
£335
Premise Level 1 ‘The Armando’
£335
Premise Level 2 ‘The Harold’
Organic Pathway
Organic improv shows take a suggestion from the audience and start! No openings, no bells and whistles, the audience give you something and you immediately begin. Organic improv requires performers to really commit and listen to uncover what’s fun about their scene as it develops, and to constantly reinvest in discovery within each scene and within the show as a whole!
£335
Advanced Organic Level 1
Narrative improv focuses on telling a story to the audience from beginning to end. Narrative improv stretches improvisers’ abilities to establish and maintain characters with strong wants and motivations that power an entire show, to learning how to discover and guide a story as it unfolds from their performance, and how to make bold choices that create climactic moments of change and resolution.
£335
£335
Advanced Organic Level 2
Narrative Pathway
£335
