Playwright Course
FROM IDEA TO PERFORMANCE.......DO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?
Our scriptwriting course is an 8-week course that culminates in a rehearsed public reading by professional actors.
Kim Charnock has been writing for RoguePlay, amongst other Theatre Companies, for a number of years and her work has been performed and toured across the country. Writers will work with Kim through a series of writing seminars and workshops focusing in detail on form, structure, narrative, characterisation, stimuli and dramatic action. Whether you are at the beginning of exploring your writing of whether you have produced some writing in the past, this course will help find your style and give you the tools you need to broaden your ideas as well as provide a comprehensive guide to England's Literary Managers and how you get your work to them.
Week 1: Dramatic action and transitive verbs.
What must all plays be about?
Mapping behaviour: What do characters want? What is stopping them? What are they prepared to do to get it? An insight into desire is much more understandable than a description of personality.
Week 2: Placing your camera and creating content.
Where the action starts for the audience and how you secrete the back story.
Inventing and generating from personal experience, observation, research and imagination.
Week 3: Story and structure.
Investigating whose story it is you are writing, what the culture is in which your character exists and why are they suffering and acting for change? Protagonists, journey and realisation.
Week 4: Form.
Investigation of Caryl Churchill’s ‘Far Away’.
Understanding of on and off-stage action and how one influences each other, the characters and the audience. Creating the feel of the play through form rather than content.
Week 5: The nature of storytelling and the tension between elements.
Open questioning, reflective listening and self-disclosure to create ‘surface’ and ‘depth’.
Exploring how a playwright creates tension between the formal elements of the play.
Understanding the public reality and private role of a character.
Week 6: Reviewing your work.
Starting points for writing, what to do if you get stuck and considering conception.
One to one time with the tutor.
Week 7: Who is reading and interpreting?
The actor, director and designer points of view on your play.
What is your responsibility?
Planning, improvising and layout.
Week 8: Becoming a professional playwright.
Who are the Literary Managers and what do they look for?
Writer’s rates, agencies and awards. Final tutor feedback.
It will run every Tuesday from 6-8.30pm upstairs at The Patrick Kavanagh Pub, Woodbridge Road, Moseley.
The next course starts on TUESDAY JUNE 12TH and runs for 8 weeks. At the close of the course there will be a break for you to develop your work for a public rehearsed reading later in the year by RoguePlay's professional actors. This reading gives you the valuable time needed to see your work performed and gain feedback from an experienced audience.
Session fee: £90 for the full course including the rehearsed reading. To book your place pay £25 deposit online. (The remaining £65 to be paid at the start of the course) Book online now by clicking 'buy tickets'. Limited places available.
Book online today or give us a call on 07746 327284.