Creating Comedy Characters

M﻿aggie's pioneering workshops aim to raise confidence levels, generate humour; improve performance skills and become better improvisers.Maggie’s classes teach people to take risks and connect with others through playful activities. She asks that you remain open to experience the absurd and the ridiculous, embrace chaos and silence – and engage with your own physicality and self-awareness.This is a brilliant opportunity for people to up-skill and engage positively with self-awareness, their own physicality and lived experiences. The best thing about the workshops is that they are suitable for anybody: Actors, teachers, bankers, the butcher the baker, the candlestick maker - and it's a lot of fun.Who are they for?Absolutely anyone who would like to give stand up comedy a go, or for those wanting to write/update material and improve their set; anyone who wants to bring more humour into their lives - professionally or personally or both!What can you expect?Group and individual activities that encourage openness and playfulness.Learning how comedians create comedy.Discovering your personal and preferred style of comedy.A build in professional humour-making skills.I love these classes!! Can't believe I stood up and sang a song and it was funny. Credit to Maggie and her incredibly warm and kind and inspirational energy and teaching style.""Thank you for all the fun, embarrassment, stress, confidence building and TLC. I’m a new person! You rock!  - love Shakti xx""Thank you for helping me face my fear. Josh xox"

Maggie Irving

Short  4 week course on creating comedy characters for stand up and sketches.

Develop Engaging Comedy Characters  

You will learn how to develop one or more comedy characters. We will work with writing and performing comedy techniques that:<ul><li>Explore a character's flaws, hopes, dreams, goals, job.</li></ul><ul><li>Develop dialogue between characters, working with tension, exaggeration, voices and costume / mask.</li></ul><ul><li>Build material and perform</li></ul>Suitable for people who are interested in extending their comedy repertoire.For people who want to sketch write or create characters for a range of media.The course is run by Maggie Irving, teacher and creator of various clowns, including Sedusa Medusa, Falstaff and Baroness Elsa. Maggie has been teaching on ZOOM since lockdown and creates a safe and supportive setting with lots of tips on how to build confidence using this setting. See Testimonials below. Testimonials from comedy class participants:A brilliant bunch of folk to work with and an outstanding teacher! Fantastic opportunity to ‘un-box yourself’ – a joy to part of.Really enjoyed watching people work and the variety of approaches. Intimate, comfortable and non-threatening.I liked the fact that we all had to get up lots and have a go, as opposed to be merely being told. Learnt by doing and from the diversity of the group. Thanks for your enthusiasm and encouragement, Maggie :)

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