Greetings, dear readers. Happy new year! Since this is the first year I step into a natural year with this newsletter, I decided to give a glow up to it. You might’ve noticed the new banner and the fact that I ditched the roman numerals, I don’t know hat I was thinking when I made that choice, but new year is a great opportunity to start fresh. And I’m also going to start very lightly.

Even if we’ve been walking the same path all of our lives, every change of the year feels like we need to clean the slate. We think of projects, resolutions, and possibilities. I cannot say I don’t. This year, however, I want to have more openness and awareness. Simply put, go with the flow.

As performers, it is very important to manage expectations to avoid disappointment or simply being stuck in projects that, at the end of the day, don’t bring us joy.

I know many people, especially in improv, who keep getting involved in a lot of projects thinking of them as opportunities that cannot be missed. They end up in many kitchens, biting off more than they can chew.

That’s why, to start the new cycle of the newsletter, I just want to invite you to listen to your gut, to your heart, and to your reason, and take care of yourself. I encourage all of you to do those things that you really want to do and stop doing things just for the sake of doing them.

Follow what brings you joy without stress.

Have a wonderful year.

🎭 The Theatre bit

I started the year in a mood for classic theatre, so I dived into The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen. Like most of his plays, the relationships between the characters is quite symbolic and the social background helps to propel the story.

While reading The Wild Duck, the topic of societal pressure and dynamics present in the play made me think of Hedda Gabler, also published by Ibsen a few years after. I could easily imagine both intertwined in the same fictional universe, there’s even some paralelism in the ending of both.

The Wild Duck it’s build in a way that makes one think about the stupid conflicts between families, always due to greed, and how those have a direct impact in younger generations. Ibsen truly was one of the best on calling out societal flaws.

📆 What is coming up

• 9th of January - Acaprov (London, UK). The first improvised a cappella of 2026! New begginings, new things to do… Come and take a look.

• 11th of January - Playback Theatre taster workshop (London, UK). True Heart Theatre will offer a taster this Sunday. Info here.

• 31st of January (2026) - Playback Theatre taster workshops (London, UK). We will be running a couple of Playback Theatre taster workshops throughout the last Saturday of January, running two different groups, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Book morning workshop. Book afternoon workshop.

📚 🎮 🎥 📺 The geeky dessert

Today I bring you a recommendation that might be a double-edged sword. During the winter sales on Steam, I got a title that I was aware of but never got into: PowerWash Simulator. As the name reflects, it's a simulator to power-wash things. That’s it.

It’s double-edged because it’s extremely satisfying, and, on the other hand, it’s extremely addictive. Hours tend to fly when you start one of the cleaning jobs. With that said, this is going to be my new companion for podcast listening.