Kaivalya Plays presents

Harry Potter Improverse

A 4-week online improv theatre course by Chris Griswold that dives deep into the magical wizarding world we've all grown up with.

AT A GLANCE

• Duration: 16 Hours (8 sessions x 2 Hours)
• Days: Saturdays & Sundays starting Saturday, June 12th 2021
• Dates: June 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, & July 3, 4
• Timings: 9PM to 11PM India Time
• Location: Online, Zoom
• Participants: Maximum 12 students (2 scholarship spots are also available, write to us at contact@kaivalyaplays.org to know more)

Course Fees:

• Indian Students: INR 6,000/-
• International Students: GBP £100 (Roughly translates to USD $140)

Use code EARLYBIRDHP15 to get a 15% early bird discount if you register on or before Saturday 29 May.

Note: This course is suited for intermediate to advanced improvisers and actors as it will focus on the nuances of narrative and characterization of the genre and requires a prior grounding in the basics of improv theatre.

ABOUT THE COURSE

Students will develop their collaboration, support work, and stagecraft to present a surprisingly realistic experience of watching a movie. In-depth knowledge of Wizarding World trivia not required.

In this 4-week course, students will:

⚡️ learn to balance genre work with comedic ideas

⚡️ play grounded characters with human reactions

⚡️ focus on character, plot tropes, and stage picture

⚡️ study the Harry Potter films and filmmaking techniques

⚡️ learn a set of techniques for presentational genre improv

Completion requirements:

⚡️ Students will be required to watch a Harry Potter movie weekly.

If you need an escape right now, this is it. The course provides a sense of teamwork, camaraderie, and focus. The facilitator focuses on humanity, creativity and support in their teaching, so classes feel like a safe space away from the world. The course will result in a show that the students can perform in online festivals and eventually live, on stage. In other words, it's a longer course where you work in the fantasy genre and improvisers can make believe they are in Harry Potter (in the Wizarding World).

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

A performer and teacher for more than 20 years, Chris Griswold (UCB, Annoyance) has worked with hundreds of students worldwide. Chris’ students have gone on to write, direct, or star in such things as The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Three Busy Debras, Silicon Valley, New Girl, The President Show, Inside Amy Schumer, and Broadways’ Stuffed.

ABOUT KAIVALYA PLAYS

Kaivalya Plays is a Delhi-based performing arts and improvisational theatre company. Their artistic training is grounded in spontaneous improvisation, lying at the intersection of short-form improvisations (for performances and workshop) and applied improvisation (with a focus on mental healthcare, business, education, training). Their improv group CueLess improv was one Delhi's first improv teams and became the training ground for a generation of improv performers and heads of new teams. In late 2018, Kaivalya Plays created Unravel, an interactive theatre production produced under the Refunction theatre grant by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan. The play brings conversations about mental health to the fore, with the ensemble using improv theatre and audience suggestions to devise the final performance on the spot. Their work has been featured widely across India and the world. Since the 2020 lockdown, they have moved our improv practice entirely online. In the last one year, they have hosted 15 applied improv workshops, 50+ open-space sessions, 6 online improv shows digitally – with a cumulative engagement of 2000+ individuals – and they are constantly figuring out newer formats to make improv more accessible and available. From a dedicated Wednesday weekly jam to Improv for Language jams in four different tongues, Kaivalya Plays is pushing the boundary of improv theatre in India (and beyond!)