Deadpan & Melodrama: Play and

Presence (London)

A one off evening course as a taster. Aim will be to run this as a six week course. This course combines elements of clown, melodrama, deadpan comedy, and tackles areas such as comic misalignment, response, seriousness/sincerity, and presence. 

• Principals of what we find funny: contrast, wrong place/wrong time, scale, incongruity, etc.

• Develop physical presence and comic clarity

• Understanding comedy can be used as scale, not technique (deadpan/emotional extremes).

• World is serious, performer is ridiculous vs world is ridiculous, performer is serious.

• Gain confidence in developing emotional and physical extremes/presence.

• Learn stage craft, complicite, build a relationship with the audience, dynamics and rhythm.

• Learning to fail.

• Build ensemble trust.