INFO
TOPIC: Comedy
REQUIREMENT: No previous training required, for beginners and advanced
LANGUAGE: Hungarian, English
DATES: SE 2024-2025, 4 workshops in October, November, February and March
The world of comedy in and beyond physicality
In the 2024-2025 season, you can take the plunge into different areas of comedy. You’ll master the techniques of slapstick comedy to create action-packed and humorous scenes, marvel at the world through the wonderful attitude of the clown, study the still valid basics of comedy through the characters and situation comedy of Commedia Dell’Arte, and learn the tools to dig deep into a comedy text to maximise the potential of your characters and scenes.
Your guides for the comic journeys will be two professionals with great international experience, Fabrizio Paladin and Adam Boncz.
Slapstick comedy workshop
Date: 26-27. October 2024. 10:00-17:30
Course leader: Fabrizio Paladin
Welcome to the world of spectacular and funny stage actions!
Learn the ins and outs of elements familiar from the burlesque genre. Slap, defend, eat, react, find new comic stage play elements.
During the workshop you will learn the correct and precise execution of different stage brawl and action forms, techniques to enhance the comic effect and get ideas for building up and diversifying a stage conflict or brawl.
What's so funny? Clown and Physical Comedy workshop
Date: 23-24. November 2024. 10:00-17:30
Course leader: Adam Boncz
In this workshop we will explore what this joy is, try to bring out the playful and ridiculous clown in us and also hone our physical comedy skills. We’ll explore the important role our breathing plays in storytelling on stage, and discover why finding (and solving) a particular stage problem is an essential part of a comedic scene. We will learn how to plan and execute physical comedy situations so that we can apply them to any performance as an actor, comedian or clown.
Contemporary Commedia Dell'Arte workshop
Date: 22-23. February 2025. 10:00-17:30
Course leader: Fabrizio Paladin
During this intensive weekend course you will be guided step by step through the techniques necessary to authentically understand and perform Commedia Dell’Arte. You will gain an insight into the rich history of Commedia Dell’Arte and learn about its stock characters. We will work physically to find each character’s essential shape and movement. You will also learn about the techniques of performing the Masks, with the opportunity to work with original Commedia leather masks.
Behind the rabbit… Exploring comedic scenes from Neil Simon to Monty Python
Date: 22-23. March 2025. 10:00-17:30
Course leader: Adam Boncz
In this workshop, we’ll explore the world of comedy in more depth and develop the skills needed to perform comic roles on stage. This time the focus will be on written texts rather than improvisation.
We will learn about the characteristics of different comedy styles such as absurd, black comedy, satire, parody, farce. We will learn how to interpret and analyse comic scenes, how to approach comic texts effectively, how to poentiate and understand the rhythm of dialogue.
Who is it for?
The workshops do not require any previous experience. You can be a professional performer, amateur actor, drama teacher or anyone interested in theatre and comedy who wants to be inspired, act, deepen and grow.
Workshop languages: English and Hungarian
Translation is available in both languages on request.
Fabrizio Paladin
Award winning actor, playwright, director and musician who comes from Treviso, Italy.
With an expertise in Commedia dell’Arte and improvisation, he holds a graduate degree from University of Bologne in Literature and Philosophy.
Theatrical teacher and performer for what concerns Commedia dell’Arte and the Comic Theatre, keeping lessons, lectures and shows in Italy, in USA, Japan, Hawaii, Portugal, Latvia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Tunisia, Israel, Ukraine, Kuwait, Lebanon, Hungary and Norway.
His book about Commedia, mask, and improvisation, “Il Teatro e la Maschera”, has been published by FIRENZELIBRI in 2008.
Adam Boncz
He began his career at the Szeged National Theatre, and after graduating from the legendary Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York, he spent 10 years in New York theatres. He has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions, as well as at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. During his years in New York, he gained insight into the Lecoq technique and also studied pantomime with one of the legendary pantomime artists in the US, Richmond Shepard. In addition, he had the opportunity to receive clown teacher training from New York’s most famous clown/comedy master, Yale University’s Christopher Bayes. He has performed in Moscow with two clowns from Slava’s Snowshow, directed comedy and created physical comedy etudes for the Built on Stilts festival, and for Hybrid Theater Works and Artificial Moon Company. In addition to his theatrical roles, he has been seen in several international feature films and series including Shadow and Bone, FBI: International, Fear Index and Infinity Pool.
You can register for the workshops separately on the following pages
IF YOU REGISTER FOR ALL 4 WORKSHOPS,
YOU GET AN EXTRA DISCOUNT!
Date and time:
26-27. October 2024.
23-24. November 2024.
22-23. February 2025.
22-23. March 2025.
Saturdays 10:00-17:30
Sundays 10:00-17:30
Location:
Metro Works Színházi Szabadiskola – rehearsal room
1062 Budapest, Aradi utca 62.(10 minutes walk from Oktogon , 2 minutes from Kodály körönd)
Full Price: 47500 Ft / workshop
Early bird price: 42500 Ft / workshop
Complete comedy workshop-series: 152000 Ft
(38000 Ft/workshop)