NEW! Women's  Clowning & Comedy Workshop

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

Women's Clowning &amp; Comedy In-Person Workshop:  for women to understand how clowning and comedy can support a feeling of freedom

Exeter Phoenix

Building on Maggie Irving’s PhD thesis on feminist clowning, this is a chance for women to understand how clowning and comedy can support a feeling of freedom from social norms in order to build confidence and communication skills for professional and personal use. What will we be doing?	We will engage in stimulating and playful exercises to help build relationships and allow people to be ‘seen and heard’	Be introduced to the concept of clowning for women through Maggie’s practice as research doctoral study on becoming a female/feminist clown 	Create an understanding of the fundamentals of feeling free, ridiculous and open to express yourself	Building knowledge on using language and physical expression to create connections with others and generate laughter, including exaggeration, mime and mimicry	Telling our stories and sharing our unique points of view Don’t worry –no pressure to be funny or have experience of comedy.Dr Maggie Irving lecturer – writer – performer – researcher.Photo: Matt Austin

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