Questions about the BEGINNERS COMEDY COURSE
Previous experience – None
Extra work required away from class – Yes, this includes learning your material, writing material and preparation for the next class and also visiting at least once, a new act comedy night and one professional comedy club as a group.
Materials you will need – Digital or audio voice recorder (costing approx £20) a pen and lots of paper! You will be given a course book and learning notes and homework each week – approx 1 to 2 hours home study needed each week.
Class work– this will be split into three sections each week – material writing, performance skills and theory and discussion.
What will I have at the end of the course?– Each student will have a tight 5 minute set of their own material from about 20 minutes of subject material which they can take to comedy clubs to try out and build on to enter our industry. Some attend the course just to ticked a ‘to do’ box in things they want to achieve in life and wish to take it no further then doing one 5 minute stand up routine! We are easy either way. Remember - stand up is rated in the top three of the scariest things to have a go at along with parachuting & bungee jumping. We will take aware that fear!
Can you make a career from just attending this course– Yes! Your tutor did the same sort of course 12 years ago and now earns between £500 - £900 per week performing at comedy clubs all over the UK and headlines weekly for the three major comedy chains in the UK which are Jongleurs with 15 clubs, Mirth Control with 44 clubs and The Comedy Club with 55 clubs plus lucrative corporate and TV work (many comics are earning way more than this, into millions in fact!).
So what is the advantage of going on a course over just doing stand up comedy in clubs? Easy – You make your mistakes in class and find out what is funny or not in class by doing it to the others in the room. Instead of being heckled when it goes wrong as may happen in a comedy club, here you just accept and try it again, maybe restructuring the joke or adding to it for the following week. You also learn how to generate material and performance skills. Everyone who comes onto this course has a good idea what they want to say on stage before they even start, most end up with a completely different 5 minute set to perform at the end. Even now, if considering the course, you have some ideas of the things you want to say in your routine rattling around in your head. Come on the course and let’s show you how you expand those thoughts and bring in new ones to complement them.
I have never done any stand up before or even been on a stage? – Great, this course is for you!
Who will be at the showcase at the end of the course? It will be open to your friends and family plus some important comedy club bookers and promoters will be there! We get about 150 people attend each showcase
Where and when is this course held?
GREENWICH WEST COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE
141 Greenwich High Road, Greenwich, SE10 8JA
(Next to Greenwich BR and DLR stations and easy free on street parking outside)
Monday eves for six weeks 7pm - 10pm
How can I sign up – Send your home postal address to us at admin@londoncomedycourse.com stating that you would like an application form for the beginners course and we will post one to you the same day. Then you simply send a £50 deposit with your completed application form and pay the remaining amount on the first night.
GENERAL QUESTIONS
WHO ARE WE? We are part of Practical Productions, an established theatre and comedy promotor who tour professional plays around the UK as producers including the hit aviation comedy 'Club Class' which has tour over 100 large scale UK theatres in the last 4 years. We also run a montly 400 seat comedy club and have been selected to produce the summer UK tour of Midsummer Nights Dream for the world famous historic 'Rose Theatre' in London.
DO YOU DO DISCOUNTS FOR UNEMPLOYED -We only offer discounts on our course fees for members of 'The Audience Club' or 'Friends of The Rose Theatre'. Our course fees are already one of the cheapest you will find an as our classes are kept to ten students. We get no subsidy and limit those on discounted fees to two students per class. We are registered as a training provider and has our course can lead to paid work or a job skill, often part of the fees can be covered for unemployed persons from their local job seekers office.
WHEELCHAIR ACCESS - Our classrom is on ground floor with ramp access to the building. 'Up The Creek' also has easy access into the venue and easy assist to the stage. 'The Rose Theatre' for the playwriting courses has full and easy wheelchair access.
There is no wheelchair access in the accomadation for the 2 day weekend course
COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED - it is prefered that you have basic computer skills for the comedy course. We can assist with basic computer skills prior to any course at no extra cost. However you would be advised to purchase at least a second hand PC for about £80 etc which has a cd port. We can then print your work for you.
SOME OF OUR ASSOCIATES
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UP THE CREEK COMEDY CLUB
THE FAMOUS ROSE THEATRE (BANKSIDE)
WEST GREENWICH ARTS CENTRE
THE AUDIENCE CLUB
BROMLEY & CROYDON COMEDY CLUBS
PRACTICAL PRODUCTIONS
THE COMEDY COMPANY
COMEDY ON PLUMSTEAD COMMON
