Time and Place Structure
How do you structure your play in time? Will it occur in real time, over the course of a day, weeks, months, years? How do you structure you play in place? Will it take place in one location, two, or many?
This session explores how to structure your play across time and place, presenting all the various options and assessing their pros and cons.
Experimental Structures
What if I don’t want my play to fit into a traditional time/place structure? In this session, the work of pioneering and radical writers is explored, to open up new possibilities for your play.
Making a Scene
How should a scene be structured? How do you begin to make a scene? In this interactive session, Stephen provides exercises and tips for creating individual scenes.
Subtext
Plays are short texts. What often matters more is what is not said, rather than what is said. How do you develop and explicate subtext without making it obvious? In this session, professional actors help explore the subtext in classic plays to illuminate this tricky dilemma.
Character
Great plays need great characters. In this interactive session, Stephen provides exercises for getting under the skin of your characters.
Dialogue
Plays are written in dialogue, not prose. How do you write great dialogue? What techniques exist for writing dialogue? In this session, professional actors explore the techniques and show how dialogue translates from page to stage.
Classic Myths
Stories have existed for millennia. In this session, learn about the classic myths that make up the fibre of the majority of stories old and new.
