Our What's Wrong With My Script? workshops aim to help you to refine your existing sitcom and discover what works live.
Why attend one of our workshops?

Hear Your Work Read Aloud

You may think you know where the laughs are, but until you hear it read by real human beings you'll never know which moments are comedy gold and which are pure tumbleweed.

You may think you've written a 15 minute sitcom. At the last workshop one writer's lasted 6 minutes. We've got a digital timer and we're not afraid to use it.

You'll get instant feedback, and more than a few surprises. Nobody can stand your main character, but that minor character you dropped after scene one leaves them panting for more. Only one way to find out.

You'll get several minds focused on your script instead of one. If you're blocked you may find someone has an idea that sends you spinning in a totally unexpected direction. You may even find (as others have) a writing partner.

Discover What Works Live

We perform live sitcom. Bet you've never seen that before. Which is the problem with most scripts we get. Writers have seen thousands of hours of filmed sitcom so they often make assumptions about what can be done live that simply aren't true. Let's say you've written a scene with a couple in bed followed immediately by a scene with them rowing furiously on the tennis court. It works on paper & it works on film. Onstage it means that you either have your actors having sex dressed in tennis whites or playing nude tennis! Or you write an intervening scene to cover the costume change.

We've been involved with live productions for 7 years as actors and writers (and latterly producers). We've read hundreds of scripts this year looking for the winners. We've either learned some valuable lessons from all this, or we're frighteningly slow learners.

There are some common traits that make the good scripts work, and some even more common traits that make the bad ones fail. The workshop can help you identify them.

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