A host interviews a poet in the style of a late night Radio 4 arts show called Poetry Corner, with the poet’s name given by the audience. They discuss poems from the poet’s recent book. The rest of the cast take it in turns to read (improvise) poems from the book in the style of a poetry reading. No matter how awful the poems the poet and interview react as if they are amazing.<\/p>\n
Interviewer: Welcome. Today on the programme we have the wonderful poet\u00a0Pandarus Sentinel. Pandarus, you wanted to start with your most well-known poem, could you tell us about it?<\/p>\n
Pandarus: Yes of course. I wrote this poem at a very important, perhaps the most important, time in my life. I’d just tried coffee for the first time. I wrote this poem: Caffeine<\/p>\n
Interviewer: And we’re going to hear that poem now.<\/p>\n
First player:<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Caffeine.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Caffeine is in the beans.<\/em><\/p>\n Are the beans for me?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I thought I liked tea.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But then you came<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0what’s in your name?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n A cappucino, or a latte<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I’m not sure about this, OK?<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Too much of a buzz,<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 my mouth tastes of fuzz.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I go into the caff,<\/em><\/p>\n And say:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Coffee please, decaf.<\/em><\/p>\n Interviewer: Wonderful.<\/p>\n “This game is called Poetry Corner. In this game we have a famous poet being interviewed, and the other players are going to make up the poems. Can I get suggestions of a name for our poet?”<\/p>\n If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter containing helpful improv resources, improv exercises, casting calls for new shows and news about the UK improv scene please subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can also follow us on our facebook group<\/a>,\u00a0facebook page,<\/a>\u00a0twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hoopla are the UK\u2019s first improv theatre and the UK\u2019s biggest improv school with fun and friendly shows<\/a> and improv classes<\/a> every day of the week in London and across the UK. We provide fantastic ongoing performing opportunities<\/a> to students from our courses and a warm, welcoming and supportive community to help make improv for everyone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20826,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-5787","resource","type-resource","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTips for playing<\/h2>\n
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