Improvised Sketch Development Course
There are no plans at present to again repeat this course.
About the course
StandUp & Deliver's annual Comedy Writing course includes Improv sessions which focus of Sketch Development. Those people who do not wish to embark on the entire Comedy Writing course but solely focus on writing sketches, can attend the two Improv sessions of that course then attend six more as an extension.
These eight sessions are led by Phil Whelan (who is a key member of Spontaneous Combustion and Theatresports who have international status, as well as playing bass in Bill Bailey's band, Beergut 100) who has a big reputation for sketch/shortform work, brings energy and realworld experience to writing routines, sketches, scenes, character pieces and riffs in sitcoms, using improv principles and spontaneity along with more formal approaches. He will get you thinking: Who are your characters, where are they and what are they doing? And about using status as a tool to help create characters, and using emotion as well as humour to avoid the danger of running out of steam because laughs aren't necessarily just in the jokes. And you'll learn more about breaking the routine, raising the stakes and re-incorporation, and so on.
About course leader Phil Whelan
Phil's writing and script editing credits include Saturday Live, Jack Docherty Show, Spike Night, The 11 O'Clock Show, Recommended Daily Allowance, Brian Conley Show, Live Floor Show, Comic Relief and Your Face or Mine
Course venue
Upstairs at The Enterprise (home of AmusedMooseCamden), opposite Chalk Farm tube
Dates/times 05/06: Sundays 30 October, 13 November, 11 December and 8 January (1.15-4.15);
and Saturdays 21 & 28 January and 18 & 25 February (11.15-2.15)
EARLY ENROLMENT IS RECOMMENDED AS HIGH DEMAND IS ANTICIPATED. For more information please e-mail courses@standupanddeliver.com
To enrol you are expected to have some performance experience. Those without any idea about the basics of writing comedy should as a minimum do a stand-up course first and perform stand-up for a while as an apprenticeship before progressing to this course (eg an Absolute & Almost Beginners comedy course - plus some openspot gigs) to get the most from it.
