This Is Going To be Funny! Jon Davison Intensive

You have trained. You have played. You have discovered moments that were strange, ridiculous, surprising or genuinely funny.

But how do you turn those moments into a clown act?

How do you take an idea out of the workshop room, shape it into performance material, and keep it alive when it meets a real audience?

That Is Going to Be Funny is a three-day intensive for clowns and theatre-makers who are ready to take the next step: moving from clown exercises and improvisation towards the creation of an act, a scene or the beginnings of a show.

This is not simply another workshop about being present, playful or spontaneous. It is a practical performance-making laboratory. You will generate material, identify what has potential, give it structure and discover how to perform it without losing the unpredictability that makes clowning alive.

This intensive is for:

• Clowns who want to move from training and improvisation into creating performance material.
• Performers who have an idea for an act but do not yet know how to structure or develop it.
• Experienced clowns who want to refresh, reshape or test their performance.
• Actors, physical performers, comedians and theatre-makers interested in using clowning as a method of devising original work.
• Artists who want to begin developing a solo act, ensemble piece or larger clown show.
• Some previous clown training or familiarity with clowning is advisable.
• You do not need to arrive with a completed idea. You may bring an existing fragment, character, routine, image or performance problem, or begin generating material during the workshop.

10 am to 5 pm daily.