Stagecraft for Playwrights

Target Participants:

Open to playwrights aged 16 and above who are fluent in English.

Duration:

4 sessions, three hours per session

No. of Participants:

Min: 8 people; Max: 12 people

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Pre-Workshop Preparation:

• Please come dressed in loose, comfortable clothing so that you will not feel constricted while doing the various physical exercises.
• As long as you are in good general health and fairly mobile, you should be able to take part in the physical activities planned. The physical activities will be non-strenuous and do not require great athleticism or high levels of fitness.
• Please prepare a short play or extract of a play that you have written (max 10 A4 pages) that you would like to workshop during this course. Please make sufficient copies of this play for the number of actors involved within this play, plus an extra copy each for yourself and the course facilitator.

Notes for Organisers:

• Please make available a fair-sized room that can easily accommodate all the workshop participants and the facilitator (seated in a circular formation). Please make sure that any other tables and chairs are stored against the wall or outside the room so that the participants have space to move freely about the space when they do the various exercises.
• Please provide a large whiteboard and pens.
• Please make copies of hand-outs that will be emailed to prior to the workshop. The hand-outs are to be given to the participants at the end of the workshop.