Jill Bernard

Thursday 18/04 from 10 AM to 5 PM (including 1 hour break)

The Life Centre, 88 Jervois Road, Ponsonby, Auckland 1021

Participants will learn the skills and form of an improvised piece created by Bernard called “Between Jokes".

The format is based on a Spanish saying: "Entre broma y broma la verdad se asoma/Between a joke and a joke the truth arises." A classic children’s joke appears on the screen behind the performers (or from a slip of paper), they read it aloud and then create a scene based in the reality the joke proposes.

A skeleton may mourn the loss of its ghoulfriend, or a bicycle might quit its job because it’s two-tired, all with loving playful gravitas. Very silly but very sweet. Prepares a group of 8 to 16 students for a short performance.