Workshop: Making Your Scene Partner Look Good (Even When It's Hard)

Part of the Brisbane Improv Festival workshop series!

Making Your Scene Partner Look Good (Even When It's Hard) with Liz Talbot & Noelle Greenwood

We can’t control what our scene partners do, only how we respond. Let’s talk about decisions we can make when the direction of our scene concerns us, how to support our scene partners and confidently negotiate a path to a more joyful scene.

This workshop explores what to do when we find ourselves at a crossroads: Continue on terms that we communicate, or swiftly bring the interaction to a close? Noelle and Liz have made it their mission to support you to take either path, aided by their ✨FRAMEWORK✨.

"Real tangible solutions offered to problems that all the participants had experienced” - Participant, NZIF2023

Workshop length: 3 hours
Recommended experience level: Intermediate (1 - 3 years experience)
Participants need to know: In order to discuss methods for protecting personal boundaries and comfort zones, this workshop will at times necessarily touch on and identify behaviours, topics or styles of play that aren’t joyful. This material will be dealt with sensitively, and only through the lens of workshopping pathways back to comfort.

Meet Liz Talbot (she/her) and Noelle Greenwood (she/her)
Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia

Noelle and Liz like each other. They improvise (most recently bringing Hysterical/A Bit Dramatic to Brisbane and Wellington stages), they run workshops, and they indulge in their favourite hobbies, like developing frameworks and communication plans. They can be described as thoughtful corporate types with well-trained eyes for creative problem-solving.

"What a great workshop! Liz and Noelle have developed a practical framework for dealing with on-stage behaviours that sap the joy from performance."
Sold out at NZIF 2023

Host or Publisher Big Fork Theatre