Workshop for playwrights with Simon Stephens
onsdag 23. november 2011 kl. 10:00 på Dramatikkens hus
OPEN FOR NORWEGIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS!
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
In this practical three day workshop acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens will give the participants an insight into his writing process, and give personal feedback on texts that the participants write during the workshop. The workshop will take place in English.
Simon Stephens says: “This will be a practical rather than a theoretical workshop based on writing approaches and exercises that I use in my own work. It will include scene studies of some of my plays as well as other writers work. It will consider the mechanics of dramatic action, character, narrative and structure.
It will be deeply informed by my experiences as a playwright working within the aesthetic and industrial contexts of British theatre but hopefully will resonate outside that culture. Or at least act as a provocation.”
SIMON STEPHENS
Simon Stephens is one of Britains most performed contemporary playwrights, both at home and abroad. His plays have been performed at National Theatre London, Gester Theatre in Tel Aviv, Steep Theatre in Chicago og Schauspielhaus Hanover as well as theatres in Stuttgart, Salzburg, Hamburg, Zurich og Berlin. In 2006 he received the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for his play “On The Shore Of The Wide World”.
HOW TO APPLY
Please send an application email to oslointernasjonaleteater@gmail.com
including your CV and a short statement of why you would like to attend this workshop.
The fee includes the workshop, Methuen’s published edition of Motortown by Simon Stephens, lunch every day and a special post show dinner on the 24th. Participants from outside Oslo need to arrange their own travel and accomodation. Travel bursaries are available. Send an email to oslointernasjonaleteater@gmail.com for more information.
OIT are also organising a workshop for directors and actors with Ramin Gray the same week. See www.oslointernasjonaleteater.com for more information.
The workshop is organised by Oslo International Theatre in collaboration with the House of Drama (Dramatikkens hus), and supported by the Norwegian Arts Council (Norsk Kulturråd) and the Foundation for Performing Artists (FFUK).