Writing Plays - Using Local or Personal History
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About this event
How do you take real life events and turn them into a play?
How can you add real life characters into your fiction plots?
How can you research historical events and use the best bits?
Join AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT, Sam Chittenden for this writing workshop at Electric Arcade, Brighton.
The workshop uses fun exercises and discussion to explore turning local history, or your own history, into a play.
With Sam you'll learn how to take historical facts and thread them together into a dramatic fiction.
Do bring along any local stories or think of ideas that interest you and we can explore them in the discussion.
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This workshop is open to adults who live in SUSSEX and are on a LOW/NO INCOME*.
You can be new to writing or have experience.
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Hosted by Ironclad Creative CIC as part of our CENTRE STAGE PROJECT - SUSSEX. It's kindly supported by Sussex Community Foundation.
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*We currently measure a low income as an income of £25k or under and savings of less than £6k for single people - and a joint income of under £30k and savings of less than £6k married/cohabiting people.
ABOUT THE TUTOR:
Sam Chittenden
Sam is a playwright and director based in Sussex, UK, creating mostly lyrical and female-centric work, often with a historical focus. In 2019 she won Best New Play at Brighton Fringe for ‘Clean’, based on the history of the laundry hill area of Brighton. Clean: The Musical recently played at Brighton Fringe, receiving rave reviews.
In 2019 Sam's feminist folk horror 'Sary’ about a Old Sary Weaver, a Sussex woman said to a be shape-shifting witch, was nominated for an Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence, and her one-woman version of Kafka's Metamorphosis played at SoHo Playhouse in New York as part of the international Fringe Encore series.
Other past work includes Unquiet Slumbers: The Haunting of Emily Brontë, Underworlds, So You Say, In Plain Sight and Moving Slowly. Her new works, A Weaver’s Theatre and Chemistry will play this July at the Bradford and Hasting Fringes respectively. A musical adaptation of The Little Prince is in development.
Sam has also directed shows at New Venture Theatre and The Rialto, including Blackbird, Ross & Rachel, The Clean House, Antigone, The Language Archive and The Arsonists.
Organiser Ironclad Creative CIC
Organiser of Writing Plays - Using Local or Personal History
Ironclad Creative is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company.
We work with the cultural sector, artists and audiences to provide greater access, opportunity and development for early-career creatives - especially those who are disadvantaged or underrepresented.
We believe that a career in the creative sector should be available to all, transparent and achievable.
Our aim is to provide mentoring, development and artistic commissioning for emerging creatives from Brighton and beyond.
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