Clown Workshop

This clowning workshop aims to bring out the silly and corageous soul inside - the inner clown.

This workshop will:

• Introduce you to concepts behind clowning - playful incongruity; silliness; spontaneous/crafted comedy; exaggeration and you

• Optimise your physical/vocal/visual humour - try some slapstick!

• Build confidence to be seen, engage actively and humorously with others

• Provide space to play/generate material from your stories

• Play with rhythm, size and…timing

• Get you thinking outside-the-box to creat silly solutions to problems

                                                       Don’t worry – no pressure to be funny 

“Taking a clowning workshop has only benefits whether that be for a day, a month, a year or for life. The teaching and encouragement have no price. Thank you.”

“Be gentle, courageous, take a risk. Thank you Maggie.”

“I believe that life is funny, and wonderful, really, and clowning chiefly returns you to that knowledge, get back in touch with the big kid inside you that never grew up! Let that big happy grin re-emerge out onto your lined face again, and find yourself growing anew” Sam O’Hara Childs

“I was lucky enough to be taught by Maggie Irving… and would highly recommend her... great fun, great energy and an amazing area and discipline of performance to experience and train in” Charlie Boyle

“When I gave a presentation… I did use the concept of seeking to make better connections with the audience which we covered in the clowning class. I'm sometimes thinking more about what I'm saying rather than the reaction from my audience so this was a really good point for me. I observed people and how they were responding and it enabled me to then gauge the pace and content as we continued.” Steve