IMPROFEST workshop: Playful Voice of Reason - Alex Holland

Voice of reason is often misrepresented as the ‘boring’ part of the scene. Oh, it’s a vital role that allows us to frame and play game whilst keeping the baseline reality in check? Eurgh, fine! I’ll do it but I’m not happy about it. “I don’t want to have to eat my vegetables” etc.

In this workshop, we'll dig into the VoR and look at how much fun you can have in this role. We'll practise how to play grounded without being ‘boring’, how to say no whilst being a part of the fun, and ask ourselves whether the VoR is even a ‘role’ at all.

Bio:
Alex is an award winning comedian, writer, improviser, and headteacher at The Free Association improv theatre in London. Alex joined The FA theatre at its birth in 2014 as part of the first house teams before joining their teaching staff and then moving on to his current role overseeing all classes, syllabus, and teachers at the theatre. He can be seen performing in house show This Doesn’t Leave The Room, is director of the halloween spooktacular 666 Hell Lane, and is a member of cagematch champions and powerhouse improv team Groundhog.

The workshop is a part of Improfest 2025, a theatre festival focusing on improvisational theatre. The festival invites improvisers from Sweden and the rest of the world to give performances and offer workshops in various locations in Sweden during the period May to August 2025

(Workshopen kommer att hållas på engelska då Improfest är en internationell improvisationsteater-festival med inbjudna improvisatörer från hela världen.)