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| Non-linear and Experimental Writing Workshop August 9 to 24, 2008 Looking for an alternative to linear dialogue? Want to spice up those dream sequences and hallucination scenes? Want to better understand how and why some plays dip in to abstraction and symbolic interplay? Do you want to tackle the “great questions of life” in your play without being bogged down by the minutiae of realistic representation? This is a practical workshop to understand and use several approaches to composing non-linear and stylized writing for theatre. Numerous techniques such as automatic writing, three-line scenes, cut-ups, rhythm and repetition, writing in a perpetual present, and Pinter-esque editing will be explored. Come ready to write, laugh and explore. Workshop Objectives: - Compose a non-linear monologue or scene to share with others. - Initiate new material using several means. - Breathe new life into old materials using abstraction and editing techniques. - Make informed decisions about style. - Be able to draw on several methods to confront writer’s block. Weekend 1: Automatic writing. Cut-ups. Discussion of alternative play structures. Discussion of use of non-linear writing within a scene. Weekend 2: Pinter-esque editing. Writing in the present. Sharing work. Discussion of examples of modernist writers as well as contemporary abstract writers. Weekend 3: Three line scenes. Stylistic rhythm and repetition. Sharing work. Discussion of application of techniques to achieve specific results in an audience’s experience. Participant Requirements: notebook, writing instruments, a piece of original dialogue to use, a newspaper or magazine article to cut-up, scissors. The exact hours of the weekend sessions will be confirmed once participants have been consulted. David Owen is an MFA Directing student at the University of Calgary. He is a playwright, director, actor and sound-designer. He is an associate member of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada (PGC) and a member of Alberta Playwrights’ Network. He is best known for his plays Excess, Unwanted Growth, No Entry and Hang-Gliding Over the Abyss. Some of the shows he has directed are Play at U of C, Doctor Faustus at the University of Lethbridge, The Importance of Being Ernest and Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) at Red Deer College, The Birthday Party and Doctor Faustus at the Walterdale Theatre and the Canadian premiere of My Head Was A Sledgehammer for his own company, Manual Transmissions Theatre. | |
| Contact: | Alberta Playwrights Network Johanne Deleeuw Phone: 403-269-8564 Email: johanne@albertaplaywrights.com Web: http://www.albertaplaywrights.com |
| Details: | Location: TBA Price: $100-$150 |
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