Katherine | April 25, 2009
For writers and performers of comedy for stage, film, and TV. Join our group as we develop skills in:
Improvisation
Physical comedy
Character building
Scene creation
Comic storytelling
Writers will become familiar with the comic strengths of our performers and develop sketches and proto-sitcoms to suit, as is done for television. They will then see their work performed.
Performers will learn how [...]
Katherine | April 24, 2009
Formulas and methodologies are useful tools for learning how to create new works. Sadly, some people get so much money out of selling these formulas and others rely on the formulas to help form their opinions, that they convince us the formulas are more than tools and are somehow set in holy stone. This is [...]
Katherine | April 21, 2009
It’s almost sad wrapping up these festival reviews. That means I have to come to terms with inter-festival blues. Oh where, oh where is all that nonstop comedy? Well, I guess I shall have to make my own, which I am, but I will have to
tell you about it in another posting.
Jeff Green in Living [...]
Katherine | April 17, 2009
I have to admit I admire people who can come up with sharp witty humour related to current events, but I just come apart trying to do it. I have a hard time getting at the funny, because the instant I think about why some things are newsworthy, I want to cry. HOWEVER, thank goodness [...]
Katherine | April 16, 2009
Well, I had all of three days in Melbourne during the comedy festival and had a chance to learn from, meet, and observe a number of very fine comedians. Of course it has now been more than a week since I’ve returned and my brain has been a mess of curdled mushroom soup in recovery [...]
Katherine | April 12, 2009
I have a load of reviews up with which I need to catch. I shall start with my favourite show at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Songs from the 86 Tram was the only show for which I actually purchased a ticket last weekend. As part of the Jeez Louise conference I was given a [...]
Katherine | April 11, 2009
I’m still snuffling and hacking away for the moment. At least this gives me an excuse to sit around and read books about comedy while drinking hot lemonade.
This week’s exercise has to do with similes and metaphors.
Australia is famous for its (off)-colourful similes and metaphors.
Talking to God on the great white telephone. (vomiting into the [...]
Katherine | April 9, 2009
Hey!
I’m back from Jeez Louise and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival! I feel it was totally worth the miserable cold I caught on the way home *snork*. I’ve got loads of material to write about, so let’s get stuck in.
At the festival I discovered the club where comedians go for a drink before and after [...]
Katherine | April 3, 2009
I was hoping to write more about comedy elements today, but my brain is tofu as I prepare for the Jeez Louise conference. So, time for an exercise!
Various comedy tropes have been done to death. However, we still enjoy them…provided the humourist can come up with a new twist.
One old trope is the clown car. [...]
Katherine | April 1, 2009
This Friday I will be taking off for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Jeez Louise Funny Women’s Forum. Jeez Louise includes a bunch of workshops, forums, panels, and performances…plus loads of networking.
I have to admit that I don’t often join “women’s events”. I just make sure women (or at least me) are represented [...]
