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Learn to improvise complete narrative stories from beginning to end based off an audience suggestion. This course was creative by FA Director, and Austentatious Co-Founder, Graham Dickson.
Narrative Improv
Course Overview
Everyone loves stories. Whatever the medium, there is nothing quite as satisfying to an audience as a well-told story. In this course you will learn how to apply the core FA principles of Game, Grounding and Point of View to tell spontaneous stories that are exciting, moving and hilarious. The course will focus on story structure, narrative platforms, protagonists and genre.
By the end, you will have experience constructing improvised narrative stories based off a simple audience suggestion - learning to listen and discover as a team where the story is going. This course culminates in a public class show!
The FA’s Level 4 Harold is a pre-requisite for this course.
Learning Objectives
Understand basic improv story structure
Able to identify the protagonist and antagonist in opening improv scenes
Learn to discover and choose engaging character wants and needs for a show
Practise working as a team to help and thwart narrative goals
Learn the importance of commitment and emotion to story telling
Our Narrative Teachers
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Naomi Petersen
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Chris Gau
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Graham Dickson
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Katharine Bennett-Fox
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Alison Thea-Skot
Venues
We deliver courses from our own venues, and other spaces across London. Please always check the location of your class when booking! Our most regular class venues are listed below!
Haggerston
The Free Association
Haggerston 2
Centre 151
Euston
The Old Diorama Arts Centre
Seven Sisters
Fourth Monkey
Camden
Above The Lord Stanley
Kings Cross
The Shaw Theatre
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I had so much fun during the courses at the FA. Brilliant and dedicated teachers combined with lovely people in the classes.
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The best improv in London! The training is fantastic - consistent and thorough, and the people are a right laugh and super friendly.
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Hilarious shows & brilliant classes and teaching staff! If you want to watch or learn improv, the FA is the place to go
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I've done Level 1 and 2, and will keep going! The teachers are great, the atmosphere is great, and really like the how the classes are structured.
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Brian Law
Upcoming Weekly Courses
Upcoming Intensive Courses
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Absolutely. On checkout there wil be an option to pay a 25% deposit payment. The remainder of the course fee is due before the start of class.
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Our courses are taught by individuals with a wealth of experience performing in the FA’s unique style.
The Free Association's training is formulated around the FA syllabus - a huge (ever growing) book, meticulously written and structured in order to help you learn everything from the fundamentals of long-form improv through to advanced moves, forms and techniques… all while staying true to the FA’s unique style.
Whilst all our trainers bring unique experience and expertise to their lessons, they all know our style and syllabus inside out, so your improv education will be the same regardless of who is running your class.
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This is an advanced class. We recommend you start with Intro to Long-form Improv. This is our beginners improv class, and doesn’t require any experience.
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The FA’s Level 3 improv training is a pre-requisite for this course. If you have previous experience - please contact us on hello@thefreeassociation.co.uk to check where you should start.
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FA training pushes you to become a better improviser through structured courses, notes and feedback. Our teaching has been developed around a core theory and approach to improv comedy that we build upon through each class of our courses, taking you from fundamentals up to more advanced comedic techniques.
Our teachers are encouraging and supportive of learning new skills but also will give personalised notes to help you identify areas you can work on to develop further.
