Comedy Writing
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WRITE NONSENSE! FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND TO SPIKE MILLIGAN
Sunday
12.30pm - 6.00pm
11th March 2012
Keeley Street
Covent Garden
London, WC2B 4BA
1 day
Lewis Carroll's Alice is in a rich tradition of nonsense that encompasses Edward Lear, Spike Milligan and Peter Cook. Explore how nonsense works and write your own through games and exercises.
We will explore this nonsense tradition, looking at Alice in Wonderland, Edward Lear's nonsense verse plus the comedy of Spike Milligan and Peter Cook. We will explore their work and uncover the characteristics of nonsense writing. We'll also look at contemporary inheritors of the nonsense tradition such as The Mighty Boosh and Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer. This exploration, plus games and exercises, will be stimulus to produce our own nonsense.
Topics will include nonsensical juxtapositions, anthropomorphism, nonsense words and monsters. We will draw out techniques and devices used in nonsense writing. Writing exercises and games will stimulate nonsensical ways of thinking and we will write some nonsense of our own.
Fee: £45
For more course info email:
chris@chris-head.com
And you can phone with queries 07814 962687
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Or phone 020 7831 7831