VENUE AND COURSE DETAILS
Venue
The Venue for Jan Etherington’s comedy course is the Riverside Arts Centre in the heart of the historic village of Sunbury on Thames. The Centre is renowned for its support of the arts, from drama to writing, painting to music, to the launch of Jan Etherington’s seminars on how to make your script the one every commissioning editor wants to find on their desk.
Comedy Course details
The weekend course begins at 9.30am with coffee on Saturday October 11th and at 10am on Sunday October 12th. Both days finish at 5 p.m.
These courses are open to everyone who loves comedy. They're for those who write professionally and want to extend their range, to those who simply have a love of comedy and want to learn more. It’s also for those looking for the way to make the break into full time writing or currently in a very different profession and simply testing the ground to see if comedy is for them.
On this course, while we will be covering the basic skills of comedy writing, we’ll highlight romantic comedy. And in case you think this is chick flick territory and only women write romantic comedy, then think again. Richard Curtis, (Four Weddings, Notting Hill,) Judd Apatow (Knocked Up,) Nick Hornby (About A Boy, High Fidelity) are just a few of the biggest names in rom com. And then there’s the great classics, The Philadelphia Story, Some Like It Hot, Barefoot in the Park, all written by men. Could you?
We keep our classes to a limited number in order to ensure that everyone who attends gets as much personal attention as possible. All we ask you to bring is a notebook and before the course begins - but only if you feel like it - to submit anything you’ve written so that we have an idea of what you do.
Fee
The fee for our weekend long course on October 11th/12th is £160.00 which includes lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea on both days. Details of how to make payments will be found on the application page
Transport
TRAIN - Waterloo to Sunbury
1)To Sunbury: Takes about 50 mins and trains 12 and 42 past each hour.
Hampton Court (a little further but a faster service) from Waterloo - departs Waterloo 6 and 36 mins past the hour and takes about 35 mins.
Headway Cars (opp HC station) 0208 979 8866
2) From West London by road
Take A316 all the way (past Richmond /Twickenham) to just before the M3 begins (hold your nerve!).
Then take left slip, signposted A308 STAINES/KINGSTON/SUNBURY
Cross two (v. close) sets of traffic lights (under M3)
and take exit (virtually straight on) signposted LOWER SUNBURY.
The road (Green Street) goes straight down to T- junction with River Thames,
Turn left and a few yards on your left is a free public car park marked P WALLED GARDEN.
Park here, walk out, turn left. Continue along Thames Street, cross The Avenue and Riverside Arts Centre is just past The Shahin restaurant.
3) From South London, come down the A.3 /Kingston Bypass.
And just after you go under underpass at Ace of Spades junction, immediately take left slip road (the A308/309 to Esher, Hampton Court).
Straight across 'Scilly Isles' roundabout (by Marquis of Granby pub) heading for Hampton Court. (A309)
Over Hampton Court bridge, turn left and (with the river on your left) continue on through Hampton to first set of traffic lights (not pedestrian lights) by huge waterworks, signposted left turn to LOWER SUNBURY.
Left there and 2 miles down road, the road narrows as you reach the village. The White Horse pub is on the corner of The Avenue. Turn R into The Avenue and a few yards along, on the left, is a slip road into a free car park. Riverside Arts Centre is on Thames Street, just past The White Horse and The Shahin restaurant.
Lower Sunbury Village
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(alternative and more detailed maps can be found here www.riversidearts.co.uk )