Comedy Workshops
in association with
CORPORATE TRAINING DAYS A SPECIALITY
HEADLINE COMEDIANS AS TUTORS
COME AND TRY ONE OF OUR THREE HOUR TASTER SESSIONS
IDEAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT!
Next one Sat 10th March from 10am to 1pm
Cost £45
PLUS!
All our Sunday or 6 week courses include an extra hour 1 to 1 personal tuition to really fine tune your performance
We are delighted to be the chosen venue for the 2012 Edinburgh preview shows in July for
MARCEL LECONT ANDI OSHO
Buy tickets for Andi Osho
Here in New Cross, Tuesday 3rd July 7:30pm £10.50 inc card fees
Tickets for these shows and other extended 1 hour comics shows go to
www.thelondontheatre.com
Our own purpose built training centre
This is our own space, and has a dedicated training room set like a comedy club with stage and lights etc, Free wifi and a great chill out area and bar
We are next door to New Cross BR and 5 mins form the DLR and Deptford BR and on major bus routes. Our new training centre and with 900 sq ft of space including our own bar area and two large rehearsal rooms and even a dedicated sound recording booth. Free parking outside from 7pm and free parking all day in roads opposite and behind our venue. It is in the centre of the trendy New Cross area near Goldsmiths and all the great bars and local pubs.
We have also built London's newest fringe theatre, which will also be one of the least expensive theatres to hire in the whole of London.
The new Fringe theatre is called The London Theatre - New Cross
See www.thelondontheatre.com for more information
Courses offered
3 hour taster sessions
2 day weekend courses with London hotel inc if required
3 week Sunday daytime courses
6 week Monday eve courses
MC training
Advanced courses
how to become a comedian
Why not come to our next showcase at
'UP THE CREEK'
Creek Road, Greenwich (opposite Cutty Sark DLR)
Tues 21st Feb 2012
Doors 7pm - Starts 8pm Tickets £7 on the door
Get there early as these shows sell out!
Some of our ex students now earning money as stand up comics
All our courses are registered with the following providers
There are numerous comedy courses run around the UK, so what makes us so special? Well check which of the following is important in chosing the right comedy course
1. THE TUTOR - There are numerous comedy tutors teaching stand up comedy, not all of them stand up comics! Some are drama teachers and actors, some are stand up comics who haven't actually performed for many years. Some are new comics themselves with no real experience of the circuit and some are comics still playing smaller unknown comedy clubs. Our Tutors are CURRENT HEADLINE comics who you will see listed each week playing major comedy clubs such as 'Jongleurs' and other comedy clubs with 200 to 400 person capicity. You can even come and see our tutors perform before deciding on our course. We can supply a current gig list for all our tutors. Ask other comedy courses for the same and you will discover some won't be able to provide any current gig list of their tutors (Some won't even be listed as comics anywhere). Also all our tutors hold C&G 7704 adult teaching certificates.
2. THE SHOWCASE VENUE - So you've done your course and now it's time for the showcase to invite all your friends and family. All stand up comedy courses do showcases but most in rooms above pubs or a small studio space - how many are held at one of the most famous purpose built comedy clubs in Britain, UP THE CREEK in Greenwich which as you know was the 'Comedy Club of the Year 2010'. We put together a professional showcase with leading MC's from the major circuit comedy clubs and a guest headliner each show. You have the best lighting and sound, and over 300 friends and family watching you PLUS and here is a big PLUS! our showcases attract some major comedy bookers to each show. Our courses train you from the start to play big rooms, so that when you go out a start your comedy career, the small pub venues you will be playing will be easy.
3. CLASS SIZE - We keep to 12 students per course. (Our weekend two day courses are a max of 6 students). Many other comedy courses as high as 25 students per course and there is no way individual students can get dedicated stage time each week with that many on a course. Also each student gets an extra 1 to 1 session with the tutor a few days before their final showcase. Plus we have our own classroom, ours 24/7 with wifi access, full glass roof, chill out zone and quiet room and full disability access.
4. PERFORMANCE SKILLS - This is an area often overlooked on most comedy courses which spend much of the time with stand up comedy writing skills. We give you the writing and material gathering skills early in the course and most of the classroom time is spent honing your new 5 minute set to performance standard. Most complete beginners are surprised by week 4 that they have a produced their own 5 minute set when in week one, they had no idea what they wanted to say on stage or had never been on stage before. Week 5 and 6 are mostly spend getting that set to professional comic standards and for most this is where the hard work really kicks in. In the last few weeks, the students are introduced to micro directing by the tutor where every word, movement and gesture on stage is worked out and rehearsed and improved. Hence why at our last showcase, major comedy bookers said the following:
Paul - Club Booker - UP THE CREEK 'Great night of comedy and each of them performed like a pro - amazing - you wouldn't know this was their first ever gig and how well trained to be able to play a big comedy club like this'
Katherine Webb - THE COMEDY COMPANY 'Each act had a well crafted 5 minutes and their performance skills and stagecraft was faultless. I noted some names to come and play at our comedy clubs for the new season'
Kevin Precious - BARNSTOMERS COMEDY CLUB CHAIN 'The mark has been set high with the first of these new acts and maintained throughout the night'
Mike Fox - BROMLEY & CROYDON COMEDY CLUB 'Just watching how each act handled a mic and conducted themselves on stage - you could see they had all been professionally trained'.
Maff Brown - 'OUTSIDE THE BOX' comedy club and past Chortle comedy club of the year winner 'Excellent'
Nick - 'PLUMSTEAD COMEDY CLUB' 'Both showcases I attended, the quality was so high'
STOP PRESS!
We have just introduced two extra courses which are run midweek in the day and aimed at the unwaged and also open to Equity members for £65 for the whole two days. Click here for more infomation.At present we have a BBC film crew following some of our classes and following the progress of our students over the next year for a BBC documentry.
We have been asked to run a monthly COMPETITION at Gordon Ramsay's 'The Narrow' in Limehouse on the Thames for our ex students. 10 acts each month from our previous courses get a chance to perform with the winner getting a £50 food and drink gift pack to use at this great riverside pub.
We had a full page artical written about us in the Daily Telegraph, who asked us to take their features writer (award winning Tania Gold) and within two hours, train her to perform three minutes of self generated material which she would then perform the same night at a comedy club. One thing they forgot to mention was the club was 350 miles away at the Ed Festival and of course we are in London. We managed it sucessfully even rushing her to the airport within minutes to catch her flight.
We also arranage a number of group trips and nights out for current and ex students and performers on special comedy school trips which include invites to our Xmas party and summer Picnic in the Park
After a show at The Orchard Theatre in Dartford and just before we hit the pub
What a record!
Nena Edwards has been out on the circuit 1 month and has been spotted and asked to play MJ in the long running hit aviation comedy 'Club Class' which has now toured over 180 large scale theatres around the UK.
John Williams holds the record for ex students for the fastest comic to get a paid gig after doing their first showcase. John did the showcase at Up the Creek on the Tuesday 12th Oct and was offered a £100 paid gig to do on the Friday 15th Oct in Kent from a booker who was in the audience. He has also been asked to MC another pro comedy club on a monthly basis.
Suzanne Snowden won the best of the new acts competition on her second gig and has since returned to her native Oz stopping enroute at Hong Kong to do a gig and has secured spots at some great clubs in Melbourne. Once she returns she has a paid booking at 'Up The Creek' and some MC work lined up.
Well done Sophie Richardson, 2 weeks after she finished the course she did a open spot for Mirth Control in Wimbledon and was immediatly asked by the promoter of that gig to do a paid spot in front of 250 people a few weeks later at Wimbledon AFC, a reguar pro comedy night.
Glen Sherman won the Cavendish Arms New Act Comp beating a very strong bill of 20 acts, not bad for someone who entered it three weeks after finishing the course. Also a fellow student Claire Whitton from the same class was runner up. (this would have been her first gig after doing her showcase). Both also got their first paid gigs within 4 weeks of finishing their training.
Nikki Philby has just been offered a contract as a cruise director with Celebrity Cruises. She did our first ever comedy course and was a children's nanny at the time and had never been on stage before. Since her showcase she has got accepted as an entertainmnet host at a Norfolk Holiday Centre - hardly surprising that she is doing well as she was a bundle of energy on stage during her showcase.
Katie Hearsey had been on the circuit 1 month after doing the course has won the Cavendish Arms in Clapham New Act Comp twice and is now secured a great new agent.
Catherine Stevens has now been on the circuit 7 months and after being spotted at our showcase was booked by one of the countries leading comedy club bookers to do a set at Bracknell Comedy Club. This club isn't that well known around the open spots and newbies on the circuit but for the professionals, this is a highly regarded weekly comedy club along with it being the UK's longest running comedy club outside London. This club doesn't often have open spots on and she was asked to do a short set in the middle section alongside some big named comics. As we said, this club doesn't usually do open spots and they kept to that policy as after the gig which went really well she was asked to invoice them as she was to be given a fee as one of the acts on that night. Well done 'Cat' - Thing is are you ever going to send the invoice or frame it and hang it on your wall.
Tony Marresese, a student on our recent Feb 2010 course has been offered a full paid gig just after the second time he performed. Not only that, he has impressed a professional comedy club booker so much, he has been asked to compare a professional Saturday night of comedy at the weekly Churchill Theatre comedy club in Bromley.
Liam Smith since finishing the course early 2010 has now secured over £500 of paid work in the four months out on the circuit. He has also won the Cavendish Arms New Act Competition a number of times and it was suggested that to give some others a chance he holds off entering for a while. This man is the one to watch, lots of interest in him from agents and main comedy club bookers.
Eric Storm was spotted at our showcase by our theatre casting director and is now on tour playing Peter Quince for 'Shakespeare in The Park'Chris Askew for winning the Gordon Ramsay Comedy Comp on the first time he performed since the showcase. Chris head lines an 'Up The Creek' showcase and gets lunch at a Gordon Ramsay venue as part of the prize.
For an application pack
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0208 694 1888
Many comedy courses charge hundreds of pounds - we are happy to put in large print that our Beginners Courses start from only
£160
including the showcase at 'Up The Creek'
London Comedy Course is trading name of The London Theatre Ltd, , The Lower Space, 443 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TA
Our venue is avalible for hire to theatre companies for rehearsal during the day
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