We are offering a special deal on this Saturday’s playwriting workshop in Birmingham. Until noon tomorrow, you can pay what you can for a ticket normally costing £50.
To book a place, email catherine.edwards@scriptonline.net by 12 noon on Thursday 24th June
The Moving Bus – Dealing with Exposition
Saturday 26th June 2010 (10am-5pm)
The Drum, Birmingham
Led by Alan PollockA writer once described the results of effective exposition as akin to “stepping onto a moving bus”. Are we, as writers and theatre artists, too reliant on the goodwill of audiences? Shakespeare and his contemporaries could not count on the undivided attention of theirs. Their approach to engaging the interest of playgoers is direct and practical: messengers arrive, choruses speak, proclamations are uttered and characters tell each other things they would already know… Do contemporary theatre-makers have anything to learn from past approaches? Or should we look to the future – to monologue, narration and new media (digital, audio and visual) – to hit the ground running?
A one-day workshop featuring readings, discussions and entertaining practical exercises.
Participants are invited to bring along the following things:
- A joke (more than a one-liner)
- An idea of favourite ever opening scene of a play
- The opening scene of their current work-in-progress
Alan Pollock is a playwright and dramaturg who is currently under commission at the Birmingham Rep. He was previously Literary Manager at the Manchester Royal Exchange and has delivered extensive workshops and mentoring schemes for theatre companies. His most recent play, One Night in November is one of the most successful premieres ever produced at The Belgrade Theatre. It is currently being developed for television.
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