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Writing Lab

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BOOK TERM STARTING:

Wed8thJul7:30pm

Writing Lab

What is Writing Labs?
Writing Lab is a practical introduction course to writing for theatre.  
You’ll develop your writing skills, focusing on all elements of playwrighting including character creation, world building and structure. You’ll learn a variety of techniques and approaches, developing your skills and gathering feedback from each other.  
 
Over the course of five weeks, you will: 
  • Explore writing characters and dialogue through a variety of techniques  
  • Learn about different play structures and how to build the world of a play  
  • Gain understanding into the writing process of a full play, from conception to completion 
  • Share some of your own writing and gain valuable feedback from the group  
  • Develop your theatrical tool kit & increase your confidence in playwriting 
Writing Lab is an introductory course open to anyone 18+. No previous experience is necessary – just a sense of curiosity.  
Who will I work with?

Alexandra Wood has been working as a playwright for twenty years. Her most recent play, an adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, was produced at the Liverpool Everyman in May. 
 

Her other plays include Britney’s Lock (National Theatre Connections); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead); Never Vera Blue (Futures Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); The Human Ear (Paines Plough); Ages (Old Vic New Voices); a translation of Manfred Karge’s Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre); Merit (Plymouth Drum); The Initiate (Paines Plough); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead); Unbroken (Gate) and The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court). Adaptations include Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill); Kavita Puri’s Silence (co-writer, Donmar/Tara Theatre) and Jung Chang’s Wild Swans (Young Vic). Audio plays include: Descent (Audible Originals) and Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4). 

She is a past winner of the George Devine Award, and has been playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough. She holds a PhD in Playwriting and teaches for NYU in London.

Course Dates  

The course will run on Wednesday evenings from 7:30pm – 9:30pm from 8th July- 5th August.

 
Cost
Cost is £115 for all five sessions.
 

All Lab members will receive one free ticket to an OT Main House production.

To ensure that our Community programme remains accessible and open to everyone, we have limited bursary places available for all our participation projects. Please get in contact with Community Director Francesca, at francesca.ellis@orangetreetheatre.co.uk for more information.

For further enquiries please contact our Community Associate Jess Haygarth at jess.haygarth@orangetreetheatre.co.uk