Scene work

with Katherine Weaver

“The course was clearly designed to build upon the skills we had learnt in the previous week/s, which made for a natural and clear progression”

Scene Work is designed to advance your skills from simple narratives in scenes and games into more complex and open scenes. Create funny, moving and satisfying scenes by understanding key scene principles, such as:

  • Identifying whose scene it is
  • Advancing and extending
  • Creating compelling platforms
  • Fearlessly adding tilts
  • Heightening and exploring
  • Answer the promise of the platform
  • Reincorporating and ending scenes

The course is designed to challenge improvisers to create scenes without relying on suggestions, games or gimmicks. Instead, we'll focus on our scene partner and what’s already happening in the scene, which are crucial building blocks of all improvisational work.

Learn from the Best!

You can trust our 30+ years of experience teaching and performing in Melbourne and internationally. Our experienced teachers are professionals who work in the arts. Enjoy a safe creative environment with a company that values diversity and welcomes people of different ethnicities, religions, sexualities, genders, abilities, ages, and backgrounds. 

Are you an educator wishing to complete this course for Professional Development? Our courses provide a certificate of completion and are aligned to the AITSL Teacher Standards. Contact us for more information or to request one.

We are happy to work with you to accommodate your accessibility needs. Please contact us to have a chat!

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Prerequisites: Impro Melbourne’s Spontaneity and Narrative or equivalent impro experience as determined by the Artistic Director.

Questions? Contact our workshop co-ordinator Katherine.

Age requirement: 18 and over. Please see our Impro in Schools programs for anyone under 18.

Workshop Details

Dates & Times

October 22 – December 10, 2023
Sundays 10.00am – 12.00pm
Course of 8 classes

Price

$359.00 full
$329.00 concession

Prices in AUD, GST included

Location

Impro Melbourne Main Theatre
21-23 Stanley St, West Melbourne

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Teacher

Katherine Weaver is an improvisor, actor, teacher and Artistic Director of Impro Melbourne. She has performed and directed for many seasons with Impro Melbourne in such shows as Theatresports™, Gorilla Theatre™ and Maestro™. Her love of performing is only matched by her love of teaching, which she has been honoured to do in Wurzburg Germany, Wellington New Zealand, Adelaide Australia and Canberra.

Read Katherine Weaver’s full biography