Attitude - The Workshop
The workshop is a crash course in stand up comedy and aims to equip participants with enough technique, know-how and self-confidence to devise and perform an original 5 minute act to a live audience. It is also appropriate for artists working in other performance disciplines wishing to re-think their on-stage persona and presentational skills. As a consequence guest tutors reflect this diversity and regularly include Singer-songwriters, performance poets as well as Stand up Comedians and MCs The workshop includes a variety of methods from improvised ranting to creative writing. Much of it involves identifying, honing and heightening versions of everyday speech and behaviour. It will not all apply and does not have to be learned and should be approached as if trying on every garment and accessory in the shop. Participants are encouraged to use the opportunity to make mistakes. There will be notes available on the essentials.
The central theme of the workshop is ATTITUDE. Participants are given continual feedback encouraging them to recognise and explore idiosyncratic quirks of their own personality as well as playing to their more obvious strengths and to eventually develop a unique ATTITUDE that is essentially of themselves.
The workshop content is structured to cater for the needs of a wide ability range and participants invariably include professional performers invited from our network of affiliates, working alongside absolute beginners and the inevitable thrill seekers.
The workshop comprises six sessions of at least two hours, a homework exercise, plus a 'working social' and culminates in a showcase gig with each participant performing a five-minute set in front of a live audience.
Participants are encouraged to arrive half an hour early and use the time to socialise and warm up. They should have a small notebook and pen and be dressed to mess about.
For details of the next Attitude Workshop Ring Angus 07973185388