Making Meaning: A Longform Intensive
Schedule
Mon, 10 Aug, 2026 at 11:00 am to Fri, 14 Aug, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Bhasvic College | Brighton, EN
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A week of improv by the sea? How about two?AndAlso’s summer intensives are an opportunity to dive deep into one particular area of improvisation. Whether you want inspiration to take into your teaching or some close feedback to improve your play, our summer intensives are a holiday from the real world and a tune-up for your improv-brain.
This year, AndAlso is offering not one, but two intensives, bookable together at a hefty discount. Two back-to-back weeks of improv on the beautiful Sussex coast.
WEEK TWO - Making Meaning: A Longform Intensive
Longform improv can look like a miracle. Seemingly random threads pull together, cooperation arises out of chaos, and a ragtag bunch turn out to be a slick team. In longform, the improvisers are doing much more than just making it up - they are following threads, finding connections, and building a collection of scenes into a show. A show that says something. A show with meaning.
There are many longform formats, but at its heart, longform depends on a core set of skills. A set of skills that we will share with you during this summer intensive.
In Making Meaning, AndAlso’s experienced teachers will give you practical techniques for shaping longform shows with confidence and clarity. Through structured exercises, coached runs, and feedback, you’ll learn how to balance freedom and form when to heighten, when to return, and how to find the meaning in what’s already there. You’ll explore openings, edits, group work, and patterns, not as rules to follow, but as tools you can use to make the show you want to make.
Course content includes:
- What’s it about?: using theme to structure a show
- Callbacks, recurring characters, and emotional pay-off (without - getting trapped in story)
- A variety of ways to create variety
- When to edit and which edit to use
- The rhythm of the show
- Endings that feel like endings
During this course, you will study classic Chicago formats, but this is not the point. The skills you learn will be applicable any time you are linking scenes together (and often when you are not).
This course has been super popular, so we'll be running two classes, one will be taught by Jules Munns and the other by one of our fabulous facilitators (TBC). It is ideal for improvisers with at least a year of experience, ideally with some longform experience, who want to strengthen their craft. You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of structure, a broader range of tools, and the confidence to use them with purpose.
Longform isn’t magic - it’s mastery.
NB: This intensive is NOT a narrative intensive. Stories are great, but they are just not what this week is about.
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Where is it happening?
Bhasvic College, Brighton and Hove, Brighton, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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