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TENacity
CHARACTER
INCUBATION: FINDING YOUR VOICE
Saturday
18th July, 2009 (10am-5pm)
Malika
Booker
Where
do characters come from? How do you create,
develop and nurture a 3-dimensional, believable
individual and give them a voice that will transcend
the page? Storyteller Malika Booker will
take you through the process of exploring and
building characters in script and performance
using practical exercises and examples from existing
dramatic monologues.
Venue:
The Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Cost:
£50 (£45 concessions)
To
Book: Download a booking
form
Malika
Booker is a British writer of Guyanese
and Grenadian Parentage, who writes poetry.
She has also written for the stage and radio.
Her one-woman show Unplanned, toured
nationwide throughout 2007 and her poetry collection
Breadfruit was published by flippedeye
in 2008. She is currently working on her
first full-length collection. http://tinyurl.com/2ecb6t
EMERGE
Script,
in association with the Midlands branches of Equity
and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, is delighted
to announce the launch of Emerge , a new initiative
aimed at bringing together professional actors
and talented writers across the region.
The aim
is to offer structured support to actors and emerging
playwrights through closed readings of new scripts
for the stage. The pilot scheme will take
place in three meetings over three months, where
writers will have the chance to see their work
read and workshopped by professional actors.
The writers/
dates are:
Saturday
2nd May:
--
Richard
Parkes
-- Ian
Hassall
-- Michael
Cole
Saturday
6th June:
--Rachel
Sambrooks
--Julian
Armitstead
--Peter
Sutton
Saturday
4th July:
--
Ifemu Omari
--
Kate Shaw
--
Liz John
SCRIPT
GAMES
Saturday
22nd November, 1pm
Beijing
Map Games Exhibition, Gas Hall
Pictures
tell a thousand stories...
What's
yours?
Script,
in association with Birmingham Museums & Art
Gallery, presents five short plays written in
response to the Beijing Map Games Exhibition.
The
plays were selected following an open competition
in which writers were asked to draw inspiration
from the artworks on display.
The
artworks have been inspired by the rapid changes
that are influencing the appearance and map of
Beijing city. The writers have drawn on
individual exhibits to explore a personal interpretation
of themes of identity, freedom and the relationship
between culture and technology.
Sacred
Geometry, by Rachel Sambrooks
Zhe
Zhi, by Tim Macavoy
Look
Down on the City, by Jonathan Collings
The
Seal-Maker's Son, by Tina Freeth
Unconciousness,
by Alex Dennistoun
Director:
Kate Chapman
Actors:
Peter Chay, Tony Kilbane, Jay Oliver Yip, Jennifer
Lim
APPROACHES TO WRITER DEVELOPMENT: THE EUROPEAN
MODEL
Script
has successfully applied for funding of 19, 720
Euros from the EU Leonardo Da Vinci Mobility Programme
to send professional playwrights on 2-week placements
to theatres in Europe. For further information,
please visit the dedicated project web page on:
www.scriptonline.net/leonardo
SCRIPT
READING SERVICE
You
can now send your script to us and receive a feedback
report from one of our expert readers. For more
information about this service please go to the
Resource section
Stage
Archive
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Projects
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