Our Curriculum

  • Gain confidence that works on stage and in real life

  • Unlock your creativity in a fun and welcoming environment

  • From complete beginners to seasoned performers, there’s opportunities for fun and growth for everyone

  • Make friends and build your community in VLC!

Improv

Tap into creativity, expand your soft-skills and build confidence through improvisational play!

Essentials Tier

  • Join our basic course to master the basics of improv, where you'll dive into the "yes, and..." principle. Discover the art of listening, accepting, and collaborating as you build a strong foundation in improvisational skills. Perfect for beginners, this course will equip you with essential techniques to enhance your personal and improv skills.

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: none

    • Price: 210 euros

    • Participants: 12

    • Showcase: The Townmodel

  • Keep drilling the groundwork for improv (yes, and…) while delving into the core values of generosity, trust, and creativity. Over these sessions, you'll not only practise foundational improv techniques but also experience the transformative power of a playful, safe and creative collective environment.

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Improv essentials I 

    • Price: 210 euros

    • Participants: 12

    • Showcase Format: The Townmodel

  • Now that your core is solid, let’s have even more fun finding the games, patterns and elements that you are starting to like more about improv!

    After our three Essentials courses you would have done almost a year of improv, graduating as an improv cadet ready to deepen the specific skills that you like most in the courses at Tier I.

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Improv essentials II or audition 

    • Price: 210 euros

    • Participants: 12

    • Showcase Format: The Townmodel

Tier 1

  • Dive into our 12-week course dedicated to exploring emotions in improv! For any improv to become real it is essential to connect and react emotionally to what is being created on stage. In this course you’ll learn techniques to identify, connect and amplify your emotions, and explore how to connect with your scene partners and audience on a deeper level, making your improv more impactful and memorable. 

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Improv Essentials III

    • Price: €210 

    • Participants: 8-10

    • Showcase: Armando

  • Train your eye to spot patterns and let them guide your improv. In this course, you'll learn how to recognize recurring ideas, connect story threads, and discover the game of the scene as it unfolds. Pattern recognition will help you to turn what it seems like chaos into improvised cohesion.

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Improv essentials III

    • Price: 210 euros

    • Participants: 8-10

    • Showcase: Armando

Tier 2

  • Dive deeper into the art of crafting dynamic, engaging scenes, learn how to play with tension and remain silent to let the scene emerge. With a focus on active listening and emotional depth, this course will help you elevate your ability at making interesting scenes by reading the scene instead of writing it.

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Tier I (both courses)

    • Price: 210 euros

    • Participants: 8-10

    • Showcase Format: The Apartment

  • A first dive-in course dedicated to encounter the art of character work in improv! Throughout the course, you will explore the tools to be able to develop characters through the body, voice and energy, relating them to the other characters on stage to create a rich repertoire for the show.

    • Requirements: Tier I (both courses)

    • Price: €210 

    • Participants: 8-10

    • Showcase Format: The Bench

  • This intermediate course keeps diving into the dynamics of a scene, focusing on status and multiple people scenes.

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Scene Work I

    • Price: €210 

    • Participants: 8-10

    • Showcase: The Apartment

  • This intermediate course builds on your foundation to explore the complexity of a character’s psyche, including POV, backstory, emotional authenticity, and relations.

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Characters I

    • Price: €210 

    • Participants: 8-10

    • Showcase Format: The Bench

Tier 3

  • Improvisers are not only actors but also scriptwriters and directors. In this introductory course to storytelling you will learn diverse techniques and resources to craft dynamic narratives, develop the plot, jump through time and space, and make sense of the stories as they unfold. This includes building the structure of a long-form story both from within and from the sidelines.

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Two courses of Tier II

    • Price: 210 euros

    • Participants: 8-10

    • Showcase Format: Roh’s Choice

  • This advanced course builds on your foundation in long-form structure to explore sophisticated narrative techniques, diving into complex editing tools and advance narrative skills to unlock the scripter inside of you.
    Focus on developing your directorial instincts and knowing when to step forward or back, how to support scenes, and maintain narrative coherence while preserving spontaneity.

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Storytelling I

    • Price: €210

    • Participants: 8-10

    • Showcase: Roh’s Choice

  • Step beyond the ordinary and create rich, fictional worlds that spark the imagination. In this course, you'll explore how to establish compelling settings, define their rules, and bring them to life through character choices, objects, and environments. Whether grounded in reality or wildly fantastical, your worlds will become the playground for unforgettable stories. The ultimate art of yes, ending!

    • Timing: 12 weeks + showcase

    • Requirements: Two courses of Tier II

    • Price: 210 euros

    • Participants: 8-10

    • Showcase Format: A day in the life of

Extras

  • Looking to dive deeper into improv? Eager to level up your training? 

    Welcome to the Improv Gym, a weekly drop-in style 1.5 hour class facilitated by one of our teachers to drill specific improv skills.

    Perfect for improvisers eager to sharpen their abilities, review resources, build confidence in their improv toolbox, and get instant feedback in a supportive environment.

    • Requirements: Essentials I

    • Timing: Weekly drop-in; 1.5 hrs

    • Capacity: 4-8 ppl per class

  • Ready to take the stage as a team?

    This specialized offerings is designed for advanced students who want to form their own improv troupe and not die in the process!

    Working closely with our experienced coaches, you'll receive personalized guidance to develop a good training routine, choose or create your own format, establish good group dynamics, and receive group feedback to improv(e).

    Beyond coaching, we provide real opportunities to troops under the VLC Playground umbrella through dedicated performance nights and promotional support.

Acting

Let your inner superstar shine! Deepen emotional expression, physicality, character work and more with our acting classes.

  • In this class, you’ll learn how to connect with a text, listen, and respond with authenticity. Through playful exercises and scene work, you’ll explore how to bring words to life with freedom, honesty, and creativity—building confidence on stage while uncovering your unique voice as an actor.

    • Timing: 12 weeks

    • Requirements: none

    • Price: 210 euros

    • Capacity: 10-12 people

Workshops

Our 3-4 hours workshops are appropriate for all experience levels. Learn new skills, dive into different formats or apply improv to life beyond the stage.

Any student enrolled in any full course receives a 20% discount on workshops

Email us to request a workshop for your group or organisation

  • Our monthly beginners’ workshop specially curated for complete beginners or anyone curious about how the magic of improv can add fun, laughter and connection to their life.🌈

    A Taste of Improv takes place once per month at The Playground School and you can expect: 

    • A supportive space to explore the basics of improvisation

    • Fun exercises that unlock creativity and spontaneity

    • Loads of laughs and new connections with fellow participants

    No experience? No problem! This workshop is designed for people with little to no experience.

    Timing: 3 hours

  • Enjoy laughing at mistakes! In this workshop we'll learn how to approach mistakes with less judgement.

    We will explore tools to turn these so-called "mistakes" into happy accidents that lead to unexpected plot twists, meta-improv opportunities and just creative ideas in general!

    • Teacher: Rocío Barquilla 

    • Timing: Half-day (4 hours)

  • Stop using your body on stage (and in life) just to carry your brain! Learn how to create fun, interesting and developed characters fully inspired by your own physicality.

    • Teacher: Adrià Lerma

    • Timing: Half-day (4 hours)

  • An acting workshop designed to strip away pretense and bring your authentic self to every role.

    Learn to connect with your characters and bring words on a script to life creating moments of raw, undeniable truth on stage.

    • Teacher: Catalina Bucheli

    • Timing: Half-day (4 hours)

  • Want to work with us but don't see what you're looking for? We're specialists in applied theatre and we're happy to co-create custom workshops that suit the unique needs of your team or community!

    Inquire for details.

  • Every 2-3 months we invite renowned improvisers from all over the world to perform with us, taking the opportunity to also offer our students a special workshop with them.

    We have had the pleasure to host great improvisers and teachers such as Luana Poença, Nick Armstrong, Ignatio Grinstein, Liron Levin, Emil Lundrgen and Carl Clancy to play with us!

    Interested in being a guest teacher and performer? Get in touch!

    Cost:

    • 3 hours: 40 euros

    • 4 hours: 50 euros

    *20% discount for any student currently enrolled in a full course