Pen to Print: Beginners Playwriting Classes

Session Eleven: Page to stage

You’ve written a play, so what do you do with it now? Sending to scratch nights, competitions, theatres, theatre companies, agents and publishers. The play in performance: working with actors and directors, learning from your audience. How to approach feedback and reviews. What’s holding you back?

Course Outline:

This comprehensive 11-month course guides the aspiring playwright through all the basic and most important aspects of playwriting, from generating ideas and creating characters, to structuring a story for the stage. Each workshop explores one or more aspects in depth, including creating conflict and drama, developing themes and message, engaging your audience throughout, how to format a play as a written script, and writing sparkling, purposeful dialogue which leaps off the page.

The course combines theory with practical advice and first-hand experience, covering all lengths of plays as well as writing speeches and monologues. Participants are encouraged to create work which will be producible by theatres in the real world. The workshops include written exercises alongside engagement with published texts and performed plays.

Please note there is a supporting Google Classroom for this course and the direct link to join can be found in confirmation email under the Additional information section.

If you have any accessibility requirements, please directly get in touch with us at pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

If you are not sure if this class is for you or would like more information, please contact us to discuss. Ask the organiser or email: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk.

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• NB: Content includes viewing films for illustration purposes which may feature content that some people may find upsetting, uses language or depicts scenes reflecting attitudes to race and sex that are no longer seen as acceptable.
• Booking is essential. Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants who are found not to have booked a place for a session.
• This course is intended for those who have attended a Pen to Print playwriting writing course before.
• If you have previously attended the Beginners Playwriting Classes, we recommend participants book the Advanced Playwriting Classes with Lucy Kaufman.
• Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to unenroll you from one or both courses, if you are found to have booked places on both courses.
• Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants who are disruptive to a session.
• Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to unenroll a participant from a course and explore an alternative approach to supporting them on their writing journey, if we feel that a class is unsuitable for that participant.