Make your comedy more physical! Make your physicality funnier!
This is more than just a clown workshop — not that there’s anything wrong with that. Instead, we take a broader approach to physical comedy that will be of use to actors, stand-up comics, mimes and, yes, clowns. You will be exposed to a wide physical comedy vocabulary that is news to most comedic performers today because, frankly, nobody teaches what I teach. It is work that immerses us in the world of inanimate objects and animated partners. It is work that thinks visually; that involves the whole body; that takes inspiration from the great comedians of yesteryear but insists on our ability to invent and reimagine our own physical comedy world. Amazing stuff, yet it’s more than mere tricks, more than silly slapstick. It’s all about making your new vocabulary work within character-oriented gags and scenarios. Physical comedy is intrinsic to the story we are telling because the physical comedy moments we depict, far from being mere comic relief, define who we are and how we act.
Open to anyone 16 and above, it will be an ideal opportunity for any actors, performers and comics looking to enhance their funny bones.
Over two days you will get the chance to explore and practice many classic bits and gags before using them as jumping off points to create your own material.
Throughout the course participants will have the opportunity to present both rehearsed and improvised work to the rest of the group.
[The recommended minimum age for this class is 16. If anyone under 16 would like to attend, we are happy to assess this on an individual basis; please contact us before booking.]
