Playback + Improv = PLAYProv

Whether you’re new to the mic or an experienced MC, this workshop invites you to explore your voice through freestyle rap, rhythm, and spontaneous expression. Learn to build verses, perform authentically, and create bold personas in a playful space where fear gives way to creative flow. Beyond performance, the workshop develops confidence, communication, adaptability, and quick thinking skills valuable in humanitarian, education, development, and corporate settings.

Derby Duo is a silent physical theatre workshop where participants use movement, character, music, and shadow to create visually striking improvised scenes inspired by classic silent films. Beyond performance, it strengthens non-verbal communication, presence, and collaboration, helping people connect across language, age, and cultural barriers. Especially valuable in humanitarian and displacement settings, it offers senior citizens a playful and dignified space for connection, memory, and joy through movement and imagination.

Listening in and through Playback Theatre: An embodied exploration of listening as presence, response, and connection in Playback Theatre. For actors, it deepens emotional range and ensemble awareness. For humanitarian workers, it builds resilience, helping them stay grounded and empathetic while engaging with difficult stories. Across both fields, listening becomes a practical tool for staying human in complex environments.

“What’s funny in the scene?” This workshop breaks down Game into clear, practical improv tools. You will learn how to build scenes, play contrast, heighten ideas, and use techniques like mapping and unusual worlds to find strong patterns in performance. Beyond comedy, these skills support humanitarian and development work by improving quick thinking, pattern recognition, and creative response in complex, fast-changing environments.

Put the ‘I’ in improv – bring your whole self to stage. Discover how your personal experiences shape your improv. This workshop explores authenticity, helping you draw from your memories, values, and unique strengths to inspire richer characters, scenes, and stories, bringing more of you into your performance.

Step into the playful world of animation-inspired improv in this fun, high-energy workshop. Inspired by those lovable yellow characters, you’ll create bold, expressive performances that rely on physicality, emotion, and connection.

Be someone everyone wants to play with. Led by Aree Widya Witoelar, this workshop focuses on becoming a generous and supportive improv partner. Participants build trust, listening, and group awareness, learning how to strengthen scenes by making others feel confident and supported. Beyond performance, it develops skills in active listening, collaboration, emotional intelligence, and teamwork for humanitarian, development, and community work.

You’ve played “this is a red ball,” but what if it’s a scuffed football in a flooded settlement, a child’s only possession, or a polished training prop? Small details change meaning, emotion, and impact. This workshop builds your ability to notice and create vivid detail through improvisation and exercises, showing how specificity turns simple moments into powerful stories. Beyond the stage, it strengthens clear, precise communication in humanitarian, community, and organisational contexts, where clarity turns misunderstanding into insight.

Whose stories are we telling? From Cinderella and The Frog Prince to Malin Kundang, The Ox, and The Kancil, this workshop explores global folklore through improvisation and play. Participants reimagine stories, explore new cultural perspectives, and learn to improvise even with unfamiliar references. In the process, they may also reconnect with their own cultural roots in unexpected ways.

A welcoming introduction to improvisational theatre, where there are no scripts, only presence, play, and possibility. Participants learn core improv principles through guided exercises that build confidence, spontaneity, teamwork, and creative thinking in real time. Beyond the stage, it strengthens resilience, adaptability, and communication for humanitarian, development, education, and corporate contexts.

Explore the unique style of Big Bang free-form improvisation, built on the idea of “follow the funny.” Learn how every moment, line, and movement can spark the next scene, and how deconstructing these elements helps reveal patterns that shape dynamic, unscripted performances.

Unlock the power of emotion to create authentic, dynamic scenes. This workshop helps you access a wide range of feelings, from bold to subtle, and use them to drive character choices and deepen your performance.

Explore the freedom and creativity that comes from letting go of the need to “win” onstage. This workshop focuses on playing characters who fail, falter, or feel overwhelmed, revealing the humor, vulnerability, and humanity in imperfection.

Move beyond technique into genuine connection. This workshop explores how real care for your scene partner, audience, and yourself naturally strengthens listening, support, and great scene work.

Have fun together while gently stepping outside your comfort zone. This physical improv workshop helps you create spontaneous scenes through the body, building toward Fluid Sculptures and possibly Transformations.

Unleash all your senses to create rich, immersive improv scenes. Learn how to fully engage with your environment, including sight, sound, touch, and even smell, to bring greater energy and authenticity to your performance.

A playful, interactive workshop open to everyone, focused on building confidence, collaboration, and inclusive awareness through theatre games. Participants will explore how people with different lived experiences can still connect meaningfully, examine privilege in a practical and grounded way, and develop the skill of intentional interruption to respond to exclusion or harm. The session builds practical tools for humanitarian, development, education, and corporate settings, strengthening empathy, communication, and the confidence to act in moments where inclusion matters most.

Explore performance as a tool for reflection, dialogue, and social change. This workshop introduces the core practices of Theatre of the Oppressed, using interactive theatre techniques to examine power dynamics, lived experience, and collective problem-solving through performance.

We often begin improvising long before we call it improv. This workshop goes back to the basics, focusing less on technique and more on social awareness, connection, trust, and ensemble support.

Explore movement as the foundation of scene work. This workshop focuses on how physical choices like gesture, posture, and spatial awareness can create characters, spark scenes, and drive storytelling without words.