New for 2010
Our weekly Monday night & Sunday courses have been attracting students from as far as Swindon, Cambridge and the home counties. So we came up with special weekend beginners stand up comedy courses so that students from all over the UK can attend (or maybe you are London based but cannot commit workwise to every Monday for six weeks or every Sunday for four weeks).
These two day weekend courses still see you performing at 'Up The Creek' on our monthly showcase nights alongside the Monday Night Course Students. You will have between 10 and 14 hours of training with the same tutor who takes our weekly course (Weekly course has 18 hours). You will at the end of the course have a 3 minute performance set which you will perform at 'Up The Creek' in front of 200 friends and families of the yours and the other students.
We have two courses on offer
2 day weekend course in London inc one night in a central London hotel for you and your partner - don't worry they won't be doing the course!
Dates
Weekend of 5th & 6th June FULL
Weekend of 10th & 11th July 1 space left
Weekend 14th & 14th Aug 4 spaces left
Weekend of 9th & 10th October 6 spaces left
Weekend of 20th & 21st November 6 spaces left
These two day weekend courses in London are a great introduction to stand up comedy and we limit the class size to only 6 people. The course runs from 11am until 4pm each day (total 10 hours) and we have designed it so that you can arrive even from the north of England by train with ease for a 11am start and leave for home on the Sunday evening in good time. The price includes 1 nights accomadation in a Central London 3* hotel 'The Royal National' in Bloomsbury or simular for you and as they are double rooms; your partner can come for free and enjoy the sights of London or shop till they drop while you work hard in class! Leave the car at home as it is a 15 minute simple bus ride to the training centre from the hotel.
In the evening there is an optional trip with our host Lara (unfortunatly the tutor will have gone by then as they will be gigging somewhere) to a nice pub in Greenwich which brews it's own range of premium lagers and bitters and then on to a quick bite at a great noodle bar before arriving at 'Up The Creek' comedy club to watch a night of the professionals at work. Please feel free to bring your partners with you for this optional activity.
The cost of the weekend is £210 inc accomadation or £145 without accomadation.
To book call 07956 904208. You will also be booked into the next showcase night at Up The Creek following your course.
Payment for this course must be made in full at time of booking
2 day weekend comedy course at our farmhouse in Kent
The house is near Headcorn in Kent which has a direct rail service from London (and Headcorn has it's own airfield if you are bringing the plane). We can pick you up from the station or control tower!
This is an intensive two day course and although 4 hours shorter then our regular London courses, students are kept to 3 per course, so you get lots more individual time on and off stage.
These courses run for one weekend only each month (on the weekend before our next showcase)
Price includes accomadation for one night, two light lunches and a three course dinner on the first night with beer or wine incuded and a full English breakfast on the sunday morning (veggies and vegans catered for with ease)
There is an option to stay over the night before the course starts for an extra £25 including dinner if coming from a great distance
Day 1
Arrive by 9:45am for coffee (train leaves Charing Cross in London at 08:40)
10am - 1pm (first session)
Lunch
2pm - 5pm (second session)
5pm - 7pm (self study and material writing) each of your bedrooms has full wifi and a computer and work station
Dinner will be at 7:30pm with your host and other students. This often lasts for hours and expect lots of chat and banter
Day 2
Breakfast
9am - Noon (third session)
Lunch
1pm - 3pm (forth session)
3:30pm - 4pm (rehearsal)
4pm - 6pm (fifth session)
Your host - Lara with one of our tutors Harry Denford
Lara is a foodie with a passion for wine and English real Ale and Lara speaks fluent Italian and Russian and of course English. She is from Moscow and has a masters in tourism and hotel management and has visited most parts oif the world with a real love of the UK and spends her free time travelling around the UK visiting galleries and museums. She also advises Russians coming for holidays to the UK what and where they should go and stay and best part of her job is that she gets to eat out at top London restaurants and 5 star hotels as a guest of these venues most weeks.
The cost of the 2 day weekend course including accomadation and food wine and beer is £235
These book up fast so contact us for the next date, we only run these weekends once every month due to tutor commitments (ie Saturday nights are when they usually perform, so based the dates around times when the tutor can reach a comedy venue after teaching on the Saturday)
The farmhouse courses are now fully booked to Nov 2010 (it featured in a national newspaper as unusual holidays so that sort of sold all the spaces - sorry! but we have space on the Nov course (No course in Dec)
There are many excellent holiday courses from writing to craftwork and cooking to learning to dance on a site called Travel Quest
Spacialist holiday courses
please note the house has a full non smoking policy