WORKSHOP: FINDING THE FUNNY IN A PERSONAL STORY
Sunday 15th January @ 2:00pm
PRICE: £250 for a 10 week course
Applications:
To apply please send us a reason to blvyse@hotmail.com or lucy@camdencomedyclub.com as to why you want to do the course including how long you have been working in the arts and bit of background about yourself. Any clips of your work. You favourite comedian/performer and why. A funny short story about yourself. No more than a half a page.
THE COURSE:
Including Acting through Comedy, the importance of Improv, Physicality, Heightened Characters, Narration and Prop making taught by some of the best in the business.
Do you have something to say but find it difficult? Do you think it’s funny but you don’t feel sure? Do you want to create a show but have no idea where to start? These are all skills you can learn in this unique series of intimate workshops on acting through comedy, retaining th self while playing heightened characters, physicality, narration and turning a solo story into something funny.
Beth Vyse is a performer, director and practitioner. She has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Arcola, Sheffield Crucible to mention but a few. She’s also been in TV shows such as Spooks, A Touch of Frost, Holby City and on BBC Radio 4 and the Dr Who series. She has created three critically acclaimed Edinburgh Shows all with transfers to Soho Theatre, Latitude and New Zealand Comedy Festival, she begins a National Tour this Autumn with “As Funny As Cancer” her most recent show and is *“The queen pin of weirdos comedy” Chortle. *She has directed and taught at LAMDA, Manchester Met, Rose Bruford, The Urdang, The Centre and Soho Theatre.
Classes will be on Sundays from 2-5pm running from the 15th January including a live showcase.
The course lasts 10 weeks and each session runs at 3 hours long. In the tenth week Beth will hire a venue in the centre of London where you will all perform 10mins of the work you’ve created. She will invite all her industry contacts, you have guest speakers throughout the course, and she will give you all the tools to create a funny, and perhaps moving, piece of theatre.
The 10 wk course will be available for only 20 people at £250 each.
The course:
Runs weekly at Camden Comedy Club from 2 – 5pm
A Central London Space to perform (maybe Soho or Leicester Square Theatre).
*Guest Lecturers include: *
JOHN KEARNS (2 time Foster Award Winner) on creating an award winning show.
PAUL FOXTROT on improv and its importance when creating a show.
PAT CAHILL Prop maker and comedian on the practical side of making strange comedy.