Exploring Ideas for Stage and Screen

What makes an idea great? How do you know it’s the right idea for you? Explore new ways of finding what’s at stake, building the tension in your writing, and develop your writing through the use of subtext and the spoken word. In this workshop you’ll learn to uncover synchronicities in your writing and discover the difference between the story you’re telling and the question you’re actually asking.

Format

This is an online workshop with a focus on writing craft and held as part of the 2024 Scriptable and Stageable programs; it will be hosted via Zoom. This workshop is designed with a focus on writers for performance including screenwriters and playwrights, and is suitable for writers of all levels and writing backgrounds.

About Elaine

Elaine Acworth has worked as playwright, researcher, theatre producer, teacher and mentor. Her stage play, My Father’s Wars, won a 2022 AWGIE in the Stage-adapted category whilst she has pursued her commitment to the next generation of practitioners and to the changing nature of her craft with the 2021 production of Dogs in the Schoolyard, a physical theatre/circus work created with Flipside Circus.

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