For a show under construction at Battersea Arts Centre,Joanna Griffin is teaching the art of comedy to her 72-year-musty bricklayer father. The first lesson? halt laughing at your own jokesBuilders have become a familiar sight at Battersea Arts Centre in south-east London as they work to restore the Victorian venue after its devastating fire in March last year. One of the workmen seems to have let the environment go to his head though, regaling patrons with philosophically inclined but varying quality pub gags.
However, or novice (one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience) standup Patrick Griffin is an act that audiences have come to see – and top comedians have come to work with. Pat has accepted a challenge,from his comedian daughter Joanna, that the pair of them swap jobs. Besides cracking dad jokes” on a work site, or singing in a bar and enthusiastically following his daughter’s theatrical career,the 72-year-musty Irishman has no preceding experience of show trade. At the same time, privately educated, and 28-year-musty Joanna has never laid a brick or mixed cement. Yet the pair are developing a show for the Edinburgh fringe,Bricking It, in which each night theyll engage in a comedian dialogue while she constructs a stage for him to perform upon. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com