Dickens’ world offers improvisers a huge range of characters and relationships to play: status, environment, accent, physical and vocal characterization, hero or villain, straight man, funny man and ‘grotesques’. This Performance course explores the world of Victorian England and will develop skills in character, language and scene painting and lead participants into a performance that looks to create Dickens’ world authentically. 

What The Dickens is a show format created by Jenny Lovell in which The Bonnet Company of players have to create a new work to take to the Theatre Royal, Bath … today! It has been performed at the Butterfly Club, Melbourne and the Street Theatre, Canberra. The format offers performers the opportunity to create story and genre while building in inspiring ways to be playful, support each other and draw the audience into a truly interactive experience. 

What The Dickens is a Performance level class comprised of three training / rehearsal nights and three public performances.

Prerequisite skills to enrol in this course: participants must have a completed 2 x Formats and Styles courses with Impro Melbourne or have equivalent skills. Please contact Kate Bayley on publicworkshops@impromelbourne.com.au for more information