“4000 days of improv”

owen scrivens

saturday 15TH NOVEMBER: 1:30PM - 4:30PM

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In his book 4000 weeks – Oliver Burkeman makes the case for “embracing the truth about your limited time and limited control over that time – not simply because it’s the truth, so you might as well face it, but because it’s actively empowering to do so.”

This workshop helps improvisers embrace the truth that our time doing improv is limited and we should therefore empower ourselves to enjoy the opportunities he have. 

The workshop will: 

- Be reflective – to give us the opportunity to discover what we enjoy about improvisation

- Be challenging – we will find enjoyment in improv we feel is “not for us”

- Be educational – we will look at how we learn in an improv workshop, from watching, listening, and doing

About Owen Scrivens

Owen has been improvising for over 20 years. During that time, he has been lucky to learn from and perform with great improvisers from the UK and the rest of the world. Having never learned a specific “school of thinking” Owen loves improvisation that is theatrical and emotional, but without ever forgetting the joy of comic improv.

Owen was co-director of Open Heart Theatre in Newcastle, is co-director of Playing Dead Theatre, and most recently founded SaSS Improv in Sheffield. He has performed solo as a one man improvised musical, performed game style improv and genre improv with The Hang in Newcastle, and performed/directed Living. Dying. Dead – a unique improv theatre show about death.

Outside of improvisation Owen is an Intensive Care Medicine doctor with a post-graduate diploma in education. He also loves Eurovision and has made a national final in a coffee making contest.