Online Writing Workshop: Going Weird Without Losing the Audience - Surrealism That Works
Online Writing Workshop: Going Weird Without Losing the Audience - Surrealism That Works
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With the global PLAGUE making the world a grim place, it's absolutely time for a return to everything daft and surreal. Think early French & Saunders, Smack the Pony, Vic & Bob, The Mighty Boosh, and gleefully lunatic comedy experimentations everywhere. How do you do reach the mad heights of bonkers hilarity without losing the audience completely? What are the tricks to performing the most wild and technicolour absurdity while keeping it funny (and not a college performance art piece*)?
Siân has been writing, performing and developing alternative comedy shows for a decade, and finding this out through a combination of sweet successes and catastrophic trial and error. She has abandoned a puppet version of her vagina working for the UK Home Office and shuffled out of venues humiliatingly covered in spaghetti so you don't have to. This workshop encourages you to go no-holds-barred with your most surrealist and nonsensical ideas, while expertly keeping your shows accessible and engaging.
Workshops are 2-4pm on Saturday afternoons with maximum 25 participants so everyone gets a chance to take part in the interactive sections. There is no minimum or maximum level of experience for this workshop - the more range and diversity in the room, the better! Any questions please don’t hesitate to email: omnisianbles@gmail.com
Fee £20 - or Early Bird bookings before the end of September £15.
Siân is a BBC New Comedy Award- nominated stand-up comic, writer and weirdo. She has taken two critically-acclaimed solo stand-up shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (★★★★ “Joy and bewilderment in equal measure” - The Skinny; featured in The Telegraph’s Funniest One-Liners of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017), and three alternative comedy sketch shows with Zoë Tomalin (“unalloyed joy … full of impish verve” - Chortle.) Siân’s absurdist dark comedy short film script “Swan” was recently produced by The Uncertain Kingdom starring Game of Thrones’ Mark Addy and The Office’s Sally Bretton. Siân recently lectured on absurdism and political comedy at Slade School of Contemporary Art, and is a Creative Fellow of Exeter University where she is researching “The Politics of Sexual Nature” with the Department of Arts & Culture.
*No offence to your college performance art pieces, I am very jealous of your Arts Council funding.
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Online Writing Workshop: Going Weird Without Losing the Audience - Surrealism That Works
From GBP 15.00