Workshops with Alex and Guy

Alex Murdoch and Guy Dartnell are Associate Artists of Improbable. Their 4-day improvisation workshops are for performers who are curious about live improvisation, whether they are interested in doing improvisation as part of a theatre practice or using those skills in other areas of performance.

The workshops focus on improvising live on stage, rather than improvisation as a way of devising and rehearsing work, or for sketch comedy. Alex and Guy draw on their collaborations with Improbable, as well as their own independent practice, to build narrative drama ‘in the moment’ for performance with presence and spontaneity. The workshops explore processes and techniques from a starting point of ‘being enough’ – focusing on how emotional openness and physical awareness can enable improvisors to collaborate creatively.

The most recent workshops were run in August 2018 and July 2019.

About Alex and Guy

Alex Murdoch is an actor, writer and improvisor. Her company Cartoon de Salvo toured theatre and lead workshops for 20 years nationally and internationally. As a writer she’s been commissioned by National Theatre Wales, is mentored by award-winning writer Chris Thorpe and is currently under commission to the RSC. She’s a 2018 Writer in Residence at Theatr Clwyd. Beyond the Salvo’s she’s performed with Kneehigh, LIFT Festival, New International Encounter, Comedy Store Players and Young Vic. For Improbable she has improvised in Animo, Lifegame and Permission Improbable. Along with co-facilitating the Generations project with Guy, she’s facilitated for Improbable’s Devoted and Disgruntled Open Space events. http://www.alexmurdoch.co.uk/

Guy Dartnell is an international award winning solo and collaborative artist, filmmaker, improviser, voice-movement specialist and qualified counsellor. As an improviser he created Impro Café in the late 1980’s, where Lee Simpson and Phelim McDermott of Improbable first met, and with them he went on to be part of The Institute of Curiosity and Execution’s Tale company and the Nottingham Playhouse Improbable Tales company. With Improbable, improvisation projects include international tours and National Theatre and Off Broadway runs of Animo and Keith Johnstone’s Lifegame; also co-facilitating with Alex the inter-generational-artform improvisation project Generations. https://www.guydartnell.com/guy-dartnell