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At Stand-Up Ireland we run
comedy workshops to teach you how to live - not die
on stage. The idea of these workshops came about from
the need to be confident in the material and yourself
before stepping on stage. ‘Six years ago I stood
on a stage in Kilkenny Cats Laughs and had 30 minutes
of stand up material that I thought was going to go
down a storm.
Twenty minutes into
the set the material and set had crumbled and I effectively
‘died’ on stage, I swore I would never
do it again!’ One year and a Masters degree
later I was back performing and running a comedy club
in the Hapenny Bridge Inn twice a week.
It is from this experience that I designed the workshops
as I realised the need for proper preparation, advice
and feedback!
* Booking essential for
all the above workshops
One
Night Stand- Up!
(One Day / Evening Workshops)
Themes include:
• Improvisation exercises to warm up your spontaneity
and imagination
• ‘The concept of the art!’
• Character: knowing who you are up there
• Material: ideas for writing your set
• Emotion: the vehicle for material.
• Construction of a gag: Triplet
• Imagination Freedom and Absolute Power- the
key to performance
• Meeting out judgement.
• Concepts behind the words
• Performance: Ideas on converting your set
to a live performance
The plan is to have fun in this
workshop, and through all the different inter-active
exercises and improvisation, develop an attitude and
frame of mind conducive to doing stand up comedy.
Simple? Not really. There are a lot of different hats
to wear during the stand up performance from 'page
to stage'.
So I will be touching on the different elements of
the mind, parts of your body! And your personality
(if you have one) that need to combine to make you
a good stand up. Finally, we will then throw you up
on the stage for a 5 minute performance infront of
your budding peers! You will not be a professional
stand up at the end of this. That takes time. But
I hope you will have tasted the insanity and the madness,
if even for a moment, that sends people over the edge
into performing on a full time basis.
Ciaran McMahon has an Honours Masters
Degree from DCU in Group Dynamics and Facilitation.
He has been on stage doing improv and stand up and
MCing for the last 10 years. Since his Masters Ciaran
has set up standupireland.com and has been facilitating
and leading workshops that include such themes as
Writing, Presentation and Performance for Stand Up,
Drama and Improvisation Comedy. Many of his past-
students now perform regularly in the Laughter Lounge,
The International Bar, many of Irelands top clubs,
and beyond.
Week-end
Workshops
Jan 9th & 10th 2010
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This workshop deals with character and presentation
and is run over the weekend.
Groups
of 3 or 6 Workshops
Jan 18th 2010
Venue: Doyles Pub
This intensive workshop is a process through interactive
exercises towards developing the attitude and skills
for writing
to performing stand up comedy. This workshop touches
on the different elements of the mind, body and personality
that combine to prepare you to be a professional stand
up comedian.
The workshop culminates with a performance of your
own written material in front of a live audience.
‘The Concept of the Art’
Writing of Material
• Developing your unique perspective
• Physical and Mental exercises
• Building the ‘Comedy Muscle’ -
• Imagination & Character:
• knowing and projecting who you are.
• Material Construction: Necessary Architecture
for composing material.
Presentation of Material
• Comprehensive Construction of Concepts:
• Unifying One-liners, Triplets, ‘Bits’
and Pieces.
• Essential Elements of Story.
• Themes, ‘Linking’ material
• Set Construction
• The Necessity of Emotion:
Performance of Material
• Imagination Freedom and Finding your voice
• Projection – filling the room.
• Unifying your material with your personality.
• converting your material, your set, and you
into a live performance.
And finally……Its Showtime!
Private Tuition / Public
Speaking
Best Man Speeches / Public Speaking
Contact me and I will let you know when the next one
is planned.
One of peoples biggest fears is public speaking I
love it!
I know how to make it easy for you - I’ve been
getting people on stage for 6 years!
The key thing is:
You are not going to die
You will not have a heart attack
Your fly will not be open
Nothing bad will happen
They will like you
And when you are finished they will applaud your courage
Most Important:
You will have done it!
Most of the time you can’t see past getting
up there,
The most important thing to remember…is that
It doesn’t last forever
And when it’s done?
The relief is amazing!!!
Its nearly better than… doing it!
I will take the fear out of public speaking, and I’ll
give you the confidence you need to get up there
You never know, when I’m done with you, you
might even like it!
Structure of Workshops:
• One Day Workshop
We meet for One day, we see how we get on
• Group of three
We meet for two more and we have a script by the end
• Weekend workshop.
We do it all in one go!
• Group of six workshops we meet over a longer
period of time
This can be done as part of a workshop or individually.
We meet for a three hour workshop and we see how we
get on.
If you like it we continue if you don’t, we
never see each other again…
Topics:
• ‘The basics of public speaking’
• Character & Confidence: Being comfortable
with who you are when you are up there
• Ideas for what to say
• Dealing with the nerves.
• Presentation: How to put it together
• Express Yourself!
• Back to basics – all you have to do
is…
• The simple keys to a good talk.
• Performance: A practice to see how you get
on!
• Homework time!
-Text me, give me a call, and we can set something
up.
Or we can meet up and then see where it goes from
there.
The main thing that stood out and I can’t emphasise
this enough was the positive atmosphere that was generated
by yourselves. You really were great at creating the
right atmosphere for people to share their work in
a really positive way.
C.
I never thought I would have gone on stage 5 weeks
ago. I was actually thinking of cancelling but I guess
it was down to your teaching that I didnt and went
on stage, so yes your very good....
Julianne
Ciaran really generates a positive atmosphere for
people to work together. Great at improv exercises.
Really helpful with constructive criticism and provides
really good guidance on improving material. Great
idea with the homework.
Best Man Speeches
As a result of performing in so many situations I
am well used to dealing with the fear of going ‘out
there’ in front of people.
I am also well used to bringing people on to the stage
for the first time. I have been freeing people up
to speak in public for over 6 years. Between all the
groups I have worked with and all the individuals
that have come to me each of them have been given
the confidence to do it.
Through the medium of a few simple exercises I will
get you comfortable and relaxed with speaking and
bring you through some simple exercises that will
put you at ease
This is a natural easy going method to bring you
to public speaking in a fun way. The key to this is
to put you at ease and allow you to feel comfortable.
Once you are comfortable the ideas, confidence and
words begin to flow.
If I can get people to perform as comedians - I can
easily get someone to speak.
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