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What keeps you up at night?
Jude Kelly has just been made new artistic director of the South Bank complex and Natalie Abrhami wins James Menzies-Kitchen directing award
Survery of 1990s UK theatre by inyerface-theatre.com
Elyse has done loads to support playwrights particularly international ones. If anyone is around - worth coming along…
ELYSE DODGSON IN CONVERSATION:Can Theatre Change the World?
Stephen Jeffreys will chair a discussion with Elyse Dodgson and Sasha Dugdale, Ramin Gray, David Lan, Carl Miller, Winsome Pinnock, Ian Rickson, Indhu Rubasingham, Roxana Silbert, Simon Stephens, Katharine Viner, Sacha […]
Again, through the superb Jane Bodie in my Royal Court workshop, we asked what decisions a playwright can make.
My notes read:
Who are the characters/main character?What’s the journey? Emotional and/or physical?What’s the setting?What’s the message?What’s the theme?How do the character’s relate?What is the conflict?
Obviously, there are many more decisions, but this little list offers food for […]
Had a good session at Talawa yesterday on our upcoming readings.
We’re calling the set of readings Unzipped and it’s going to be at the Soho Theatre October 13 - 15
My play is tentatively called “The Eve of the Collapse“
Please do come.
I’ve come across this Theatre Voice
it’s an “audio driven discussion forum in which theatre critics from across the UK press talk about London shows“
I’ve only listened to a few things but they have some great people on there and some interesting topics. The archive looks big as well.
Hopefully some of the critics will come to […]
“an eye for an eye is not the only way…”
Hanif Kueishi is probably most famous for My Beautiful Laundrette in 1985, however before that he was best known as a playwright. He is Pakistani-British and his themes tends to be about race, sexuality, nationalism…
He makes some forceful and interesting points about religion, violence and war, […]
Would Harry Potter make a good play? The films have been perhaps a bit mixed. Prisoner of Azkaban the best so far (but also one of the best HP books).
The characters are good, the plot gripping and the wants/needs objectives clear. However it is the world of the books, which is one of the most […]
I have mixed feelings on David Hare’s work. Some I like. Skylight, for instance. Some I like, even if I find them a bit overly politicised, like Via Dolorosa and some I don’t like mainly as the political edge, I feel, comes in the way of the story.
Still, he is a formidable writer whether you […]
Arts Council has withdrawn funding for a theatre for Talawa.
A purpose-built £9.5m building on the site of an old theatre near Victoria station in London was to have opened in 2007. It was planned as a permanent home for Talawa, the country’s leading black theatre company, which celebrates its 21st birthday this year, and as […]
Rufus Norris (see earlier post) suggested focus or the craft of telling the story was important as a director.
As a writer this is true too and similar questions apply:
What does each character want or need?
What is happening in the scene that is essential in carrying the story forward? (If you can’t find this then maybe [