The stage at the Modern Art comedy show. The stage is dressed up for summer. There's a paddling pool, bunting, deck chairs and a beach ball.

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How To Steal Like A Clown
Mon, 3rd Nov 2025
Art is about inspiration. Looking all over the place to find your spark and turn it into something wonderful. And clown is no different.

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Edinburgh Fringe Recommendations - 2025
Mon, 21st Jul 2025
The Playface recommendations for shows to see based on things we've seen before, performers we love and some we've heard great things about.

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Teaching at Glastonbury: What It’s Actually Like to Run a Festival Workshop
Wed, 9th Jul 2025
Festival workshops are something else. The last two years we’ve been running play workshops in the Healing Fields at Glastonbury. A dream.

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5 Things That Happen in Every Playface Workshop
Wed, 18th Jun 2025
Curious about our workshops? Maybe you’ve seen the photos of people pulling strange poses or jumping around in silly costumes.

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Playface's Brighton Fringe Recommendations - 2025
Mon, 28th Apr 2025
Our recommendations for what to see at Brighton Fringe based on what performers we've seen before and who we've heard great things about.

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Can Comedy Improve Your Mental Health?
Sun, 2nd Mar 2025
The Government is trailing out comedy prescriptions as an alternative to antidepressants. Here's the reasons why comedy can be beneficial for mental health

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Unleash Your Inner Pirate, Wizard, or Dinosaur: How to Play Like A Pro
Mon, 10th Feb 2025
Play is a skill, and just like any skill, you can get better at it. Here are some ways to unlock your inner playfulness and make playtime feel more fun.

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Leicester Comedy Festival Roundup
Mon, 3rd Feb 2025
Leicester Comedy Festival continues to grow in significance within the comedy world, and this year’s lineup is one of the best to date!

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Christmas Games
Mon, 9th Dec 2024
Christmas is an excuse to bring out the party games and see granny get competitive! Here are the games we love playing around the dinner table.

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November Show Recommendations
Tue, 12th Nov 2024
Shout out to our Whatsapp and Facebook communities for continuing to share great shows which are coming up. Here's some of our recommendations...

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Mime and Physicality Tips
Mon, 11th Nov 2024
It's a foundation skill for all performance. The way you hold yourself, your movement and how you interact with props, all adds to your performance...

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Why You Should Embrace Mistakes
Fri, 8th Nov 2024
The fear of mistakes stifles creativity and curiosity. It holds us back from trying new things. When we’re young, we dive into new experiences without second...

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What Is Play?
Thu, 7th Nov 2024
Instinctively, we all know what play is but ask for a definition and you get a fuzzy answer. Play is being fully engaged in the moment, process over outcome...

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Halloween Show Roundup
Mon, 14th Oct 2024
It's spooky season! And there are a whole bunch of incredible looking shows to choose from to celebrate. Here's our roundup of what to watch this month:

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Why Everyone Should Try Clown Comedy: 7 Ways It Boosts Your Life
Wed, 2nd Oct 2024
Clown comedy is silly, physical and a whole lot of fun. But it’s not just for people who want to perform or scare children (and many adults).

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Why You Should Make Time For Play
Tue, 17th Sept 2024
Play is important for adults as well as children. It often falls down our priorities list but play is essential for a happier balanced life.

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Edinburgh Fringe recommendations - 2024
Wed, 7th Aug 2024
Edinburgh Fringe is upon us. There's SO much to see! Here's our roundup, in no particular order, of comedy shows to see at their year's Fringe...

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Modern Art, Festival
Thu, 20th Jun 2024
With the sun shining and festival season truly among us, we had the perfect theme for this month's Modern Art - that's right: festivals!

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Balancing Gimmick and Theatre: Kerfuffle at Brighton Fringe
Tue, 4th Jun 2024
Kerfuffle are our high energy, super silly improv team. When you see Kerfuffle you expect to see big bold characters, callbacks and surreal scenes.

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Modern Art, Board Games
Thu, 23rd May 2024
This month's Modern Art was Board Game themed. As big board game fans, we pulled out all the stops from Mr Dice spinning about on stage, Sharks Vs Pokemon...

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Playface Recommends: Brighton Fringe
Mon, 29th Apr 2024
Brighton Fringe kicks off on 3rd May and runs until 2nd June. There are so many great shows coming up so we’ve put together some of our recommendations.

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Modern Art, Shakespeare edition!
Thu, 25th Apr 2024
This month's theme was Shakespeare, fitting as he died the day before, 408 years earlier. Shakespeair expert, Helena Page-Turner hosted alongside....

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Ohh Baby! WIP 13th April
Tue, 16th Apr 2024
We’ve been working on the production of Ohh Baby! The show is themed around imagination. We start off at the Fantastic Friend Factory where the most exciting...

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Modern Art, Sports Day
Thu, 21st Mar 2024
Modern Art Sports Day was full of thrills and spills as we welcome another sold out crowd to the Vaulty Towers Basement.

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Let’s Get Physical!
Wed, 20th Mar 2024
Physical comedy reminds us of our fallibility, our humanity and how even meaning itself is something we overlay on life, not necessarily the other way round.

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Modern Art, Kids TV
Thu, 22nd Feb 2024
Yabba dabba doo! Switch off Sesame Street, it's Modern Art time and we've gotta catch 'em all! That's right, this month's theme was Kids TV.

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Becoming A Better Listener
Thu, 8th Feb 2024
This month’s theme for our mindful class is listening. There are so many different ways to listen depending on your role in the conversation...

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Building A Character
Sun, 10th Dec 2023
Here's few exercises to cleanse your character palette. These can be used in improv as well as character and clown comedy.

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Modern Art Variety 1st December
Fri, 8th Dec 2023
A very special Christmas edition of Modern Art Variety: the Christmas Pantomime. We had everything a panto has - goodies, baddies, music, dancing and clowns.

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10 Stand Up Gigs: Reasons For A Good Or Bad Gig
Wed, 29th Nov 2023
Here's the top lessons I learnt from my first few stand up comedy gigs. Everything from over analysing, energy and finding bringers.

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The 10 Gigs Method
Wed, 29th Nov 2023
Improv, clown, sketch, stand up… whatever form of comedy it is, the best way to test out if you want to continue is to get out there and gig.

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The Status Game
Mon, 20th Nov 2023
An improvised comedy class back in 2015 changed the way I looked at social dynamics and relationships outside of comedy and theatre. It was a class on status.

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Modern Art Underground 15th November
Thu, 16th Nov 2023
The launch of our new Modern Art night: Modern Art Underground. Our brand new scratch night in Waterloo. Standing room only as we saw nine incredible acts!

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How Clown Comedy Can Elevate Your Stand-Up Performances
Thu, 9th Nov 2023
Audience sensitivity, physicality, honing your instincts and crafting your playfulness. These are some of the ways clowning can elevate your stand up.

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Halloween Characters And Getting Into Character
Tue, 24th Oct 2023
Playing the character makes a Halloween outfit all the more fun, especially for improvisors. These are some ways to inspire yours

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Improv the Dead at Brighton Horror Fest
Mon, 23rd Oct 2023
Improv the Dead went to the seaside to take part in Brighton Horror Fest. The film collective created a 50 minute narrative set within a post apocalyptic world.

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What Is Clown Comedy
Wed, 18th Oct 2023
Clown Comedy! One of the most fun and universal ways of playing and making people laugh. On first look clowning is often characterised by lots of physicality...

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Modern Art Variety 11th October
Thu, 12th Oct 2023
In each Modern Art we’ve used the theme to dictate an ongoing storyline for the night, this time we’d sold the rights to Modern Art to the Evil Tarquin

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Why I started improv and how it’s made me a better human
Tue, 26th Sept 2023
The hardest thing about improv is starting it in the first place. Here’s how I started and how it shaped me into a better human.

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Let’s Watch - Lorna Rose Treen, Garry Starr and Julia Masli
Mon, 18th Sept 2023
Welcome to our first edition of Let’s Watch! Where we share some of the non Playface shows we’ve booked to go an see and have heard people talking about.

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A Labyrinth themed wood rave
Thu, 14th Sept 2023
The brief was Labyrinth themed rave in the woods and we delivered. We combined the colourful rave aesthetic with Labyrinth to create a magical wonderland.

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Improv the Dead at Camden Fringe
Sat, 5th Aug 2023
As soon as you enter the theatre, Improv the Dead are creeping about the space either eating the ‘brains’ of a corpse on stage...

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Modern Art Variety 7th July
Tue, 25th Jul 2023
he sunshine had gone to our heads as we found ourselves in the mix of the second Modern Art Variety, beautifully themed as our summer ball.

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Modern Art Variety 31st May
Thu, 1st Jun 2023
All the best comedy nights start off with a safety briefing by Dave. Which was promptly undercut by a box labelled ‘fireworks’ going off...

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