Details of Stage Writing Workshop
The Stage Writing Workshop will run from Feb1st every Wednesday for ten weeks….. a series of ten two hour workshops. (Venue yet to be decided). The cost for the workshop is €200.00.
No prior experience of writing for the stage is necessary and by the end of the workshop you will have written a short play or the equivalent in some other format for the stage.
In the environment of the workshop you will learn……
To begin; to identify and dialogue with your instinct to write; to identify hunches and small offerings as invitations to write and to find a way of remembering and acting on them; to generally learn to clarify what it is you want to write about.
To look at the feelings you have around the idea of writing, to examine how they impact on you and learn to operate effectively within them.
To sit and wait with the creative consciousness and to take literary action based on the encounter; to read and negotiate frustration and inertia as progressive meditations towards creative action.
To write in spite of all; to cut through the illusions of inability and inaction to taste the freedom of commitment to one’s own mark making.
To look at writing for the stage as opposed to any other kind of writing and considering it in the context of general theatre making.
To engage your first efforts and to make a plan accordingly. To look at characters, situations and possible dramatic developments and to have a sense of where they are going and how you can bring them there.
To identify style and form; to look at different styles and formats as ways of enriching dramatic and narrative lines (does it need songs? does it need puppets? does it want to be an abstract painting?) To look at theatre in the context of art in general.
To share your work within the forum of the workshop and to examine and operate within the feelings and issues that arise for you around the idea of putting your work before the public.
To make decision based on the sharing. To listen to criticism nad general reaction to your work. Learning to edit, discard and rewrite on the basis of this and as a general part of your process…
To establish a discipline and progress accordingly.
To conclude. To bring your piece to a conclusion and to prepare to bring it to a public sharing.
ABOUT JACK HEALY.
Most of Jack’s thirty years of working in theatre as actor, playwright and director has been on new material. For his own company Theatre Makers he has written and produced two new scripts, the one man show; Shostakovich and the childrens’ play; Aesop’s Fabulous Foibles and Fables (with George Hanover) . In the context of Theatre Makers he has facilitated three new playwrights to first time production; George Hanover, Jody O’Neill (They Never Froze Walt Disney) and Ronan Fitzgibbon (Madame Chavalle). He has written scripts for RTE Radio, The Everyman Palace and in a number of different educational contexts. His play for children (with Enda Walshe, based on Jack’s story) The Man in the Moon, was premiered in London in 2010.